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# Rusty Nail Burger at Lola's Chicken Shack
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack-rusty-nail-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:06:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:06:09.000Z
- Description: Grilled chicken patty, cheddar cheese, honey cured bacon, crunchy onion rings, rusty nail sauce on toasted bun. Sandwich Score 55, solid. At Lola's Chicken Shack, Alameda.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/), a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.

Burger BunOnion RingsBaconCheddar CheeseChickenBurger Bun

**55**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +25.

Reads as a chicken bacon melt, three of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** balance 0.80 or better

Balance

49

Harmony

88

Contrast

60

Structure

88

Focus

100

Composition

57

Quality

78

Envelope

100

More salt than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**toasted bun**, toasted: grilled chicken patty; cheddar cheese; honey cured bacon; crunchy onion rings; rusty nail sauce.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Rusty Nail Sauce.

## Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid0.3 · 34thfat3.0 · 80thsweet0.4 · 53rdumami2.4 · 87thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.1   | 90th               |
| acid   | 0.3   | 34th               |
| fat    | 3.0   | 80th               |
| sweet  | 0.4   | 53rd               |
| umami  | 2.4   | 87th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**72** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                                      | Role    | Flavor and texture                        | Points     |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | ----------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| toasted bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                      | the frame  |
| grilled chicken pattyscored as Chicken     | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender          | **−1**     |
| cheddar cheese                             | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty     | **+6**     |
| honey cured baconscored as Bacon           | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy         | **+4**     |
| crunchy onion ringsscored as Onion Rings   | texture | fat 3 salt 2 sweet 2 crunchy crispy fried | **0**      |
| rusty nail sauce                           |         |                                           | not scored |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## Pairings

- **Chicken + Bacon**: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- **Cheddar Cheese + Bacon**: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- **Cheddar Cheese + Onion Rings**: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair

## How to raise it

Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

[All the sandwiches at Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/) · [The menu this was read from](https://lolaschickenshack.com/menu?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.