Most Underrated Fast Food Restaurants

The Top Ten
1 Five Guys Burgers and Fries Five Guys Enterprises LLC (doing business as Five Guys Burgers and Fries) is an American fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries, and headquartered in Lorton, Virginia, an unincorporated part of Fairfax County. The first Five Guys restaurant opened in 1986 in Arlington ...read more.

I gotta show some New England pride, but also, Five Guys had the best food for before I went vegetarian. They have and always will have the freshest and least sketchy fast food ever. Even the fries are on pointe. And by on pointe I mean really unhealthy (in the delicious way).

This makes McDonald's look like Disney World food. Burgers are fresh and cooked in front of you (then you don't see crap put in it), fries are AMAZING, peanuts are delicious, and even their Cajun fries are great! This place makes me wanna give up on McDonald's!

I absolutely love this restaurant! Surprisingly, this is the only item on this list that I've actually heard of or went to (or that's just cause most of these places don't exist in my area, y'know)

This should be their new slogan: I love burgers. I love fries. I love Five Guys.

2 Krispy Kreme

Why is this underrated it is like the most popular Doughnut place

How is this underrated everybody loves this place.

They serve awesome doughnuts!

This Shall Not Be Here!

3 A&W

Root Beer floats here = always a win

Very rare to see one now

I like the root beer

4 Panda Express

No it's NOT! It's overrated! Food is beyond bland & is a DISGRACE to Chinese food! McDonald's; overrated express and this is coming from someone who doesn't care for burgers that much! I mean really it's not underrated AT ALL practically everyone says there for no reason, as they can more than likely get better tasting food in the next restaurant closest!

I don't really see anybody there. The last person who went was my family but we stopped.

I love Panda Express, only a few other families and mine go there.

I see no one there when my family goes, it is very, VERY UNDErrated!

5 Cold Stone Creamery

I got a vanilla milkshake at a Cold Stone Creamery at Concord Mills and its taste was very heavenly!

I haven't eaten here in ages but the last time I came here the food tasted delicious.

Best ice cream I had in a LONG time

This is my heaven store

6 Checkers

Checkers (aka Rally's) should have more locations in my opinion.

Their burgers are the best of the best

7 Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in the unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as InstaBurger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore purchased the company and renamed it "Burger King". Over the next half-century, the company would change hands four times, with its third set of owners, a partnership of TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, taking it public in 2002. In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake ...read more.

Burger king is the best in my book so HAHA

8 Smashburger

People need to stop eating McDonald's so damn much and appreciate the goodness of real burgers which belongs to the one and only Smashburgers.

Well now I find them an interesting joint, and well they got a very juicy burger I must say.

Their burgers are great and their butterfinger shake is one of the best things ever

Another food joint that is rare to see. The one in my town recently closed

9 Bill Gray's
10 Tubby's
The Contenders
11 Firehouse Subs

The subs they serve at Firehouse Subs have a very different taste from Subway. And the subs are just delicious and mouthwatering.

The son of the owner bullied me in school so I hate firehouse subs,SUBWAY FOR LIFE

Even though I like subway more, I love meself a good beef and cheese brisket. -Poppliolover05

My mom loves this restaurant!

12 Dairy Queen Dairy Queen is a chain of soft serve ice cream and fast-food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

I love their blizzards. Dairy Queen needs more love.

13 Zaxby's

I love this place, the wings are great I can tell you that

Zaxby's should get more restaurant locations across the United States.

14 KFC KFC, until 1991 known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with almost 20,000 locations globally in 123 countries and territories as of December 2015. The chain is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains.

Kentucky FRIED chicken is overrated. Get this off the list!

Had kfc once in my life and never again- just disgusting

You mean the place of food poisoning?

15 McDonald's McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand. The first time a McDonald's franchise used the Golden Arches logo was in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers. McDonald's was originally headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, but moved to Chicago in 2018.

Underrated? Well their food is edible and some options are also delicious but I wouldn't say it is because it's more widespread than locations like Five Guys.

Haha what a joke! Though I want to say that for the garbage at #1, but it's #1...

Underrated not overrated

More like over rated.

16 Jack in the Box Jack in the Box is an American fast-food restaurant chain founded February 21, 1951, by Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered.
17 Auntie Anne's

Yummy pretzels... Why does no one like it :'(

18 Steak N' Shake

Just tried it for the first time today. The steak burgers are pretty good, but let me tell you something. The shakes over there are REALLY something to behold! The shake I got was in a really huge glass cup filled to the brim with frosty goodness!

I used to eat there all the time when I was younger. It was so good!

Steak N' shake is not underrated I wet there like 3 weeks ago and there food amazing!

Steak N shake is pretty ' good!

19 Subway Subway is a privately held American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily purveys submarine sandwiches (subs) and salads. Subway is one of the fastest-growing franchises in the worldand, as of June 2017, has approximately 45,000 stores located in more than 100 countries. More than half of the stores are located in the United States. It is the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest restaurant operator in the world.

Great but underrated

20 Noodles & Company

I LOVE the Wisconsin Mac & Cheese

Very underrated

21 Arby's Arby's is the second-largest quick-service fast-food sandwich restaurant chain in America in terms of units with more than 3,300 restaurants system wide and third in terms of revenue. In October 2017, Food & Wine called Arby's "America's second largest sandwich chain (after Subway)".

It's only considered "underrated" because few people like their food.

22 In-N-Out Burger In-N-Out Burger is an American regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations primarily in the American Southwest and Pacific coast. It was founded in Baldwin Park, California in 1948 by Harry Snyder and Esther Snyder. The chain is currently headquartered in Irvine, California and has slowly expanded outside Southern California into the rest of California, as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Oregon. The current owner is Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders' only grandchild.

Not a fast food restaurant

23 Panera Bread Panera Bread Company is an American chain of bakery-café fast casual restaurants in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and operates as Saint Louis Bread Company in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Offerings include soups, salads, pasta, sandwiches, specialty drinks, and bakery items.

Delicious soups and sandwiches.

Not underrated

24 Shake Shack Shake Shack is an American fast-food restaurant chain that specializes in burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. Founded in 2004, the company originated as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park, New York City, before evolving into a standalone restaurant. The brand is known for its premium ingredients and modern-day roadside burger stand concept. With a strong focus on community and quality, Shake Shack has expanded to multiple locations across the United States and internationally.
25 Whataburger

These restaurants are very rare to find in Georgia

Yes. It is underrated

Better than in and out

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