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Buffalo Chicken Sandwich at Digger's Diner

Buffalo chicken, lettuce, tomato, romaine, blue cheese dressing on bun. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Digger's Diner, Concord.

A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.

Burger BunLettuceTomatoLettuceBurger Bun
54
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +29.

Reads as a burger, three of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)

Balance
62
Harmony
87
Contrast
80
Structure
70
Focus
65
Composition
70
Quality
45
Envelope
95

Less fat than almost everything in 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.

bun, toasted: buffalo chicken; lettuce; tomato; romaine; blue cheese dressing.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Digger's Diner's typical score.

Balance

salt0.6 · 27thacid0.6 · 55thfat0.4 · 4thsweet1.1 · 90thumami0.6 · 18thheat0.0bitter0.4 · 87th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.627th
acid0.655th
fat0.44th
sweet1.190th
umami0.618th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.487th

62 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bunbreadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
buffalo chickennot scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh0
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+12
romainescored as Lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh0
blue cheese dressingnot 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.

How to raise it

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

Build this sandwich

Load its stack into the Sandwich Builder. Swap a layer, watch the score move.

Open in the builder

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