In my last job, my usual lunch - aside from "bring it with me" - was a pair of Burger King chicken sandwiches. (The burgers weren't terrible, but
nothing to write home about and not particularly worth the price.) It had to be two, because just one would leave me hungry again before I got off work.
In my current job, my usual lunch almost immediately became a Five Guys bacon cheeseburger.
Admittedly, Five Guys is stretching the definition of "fast food" slightly, in that it's almost always about a ten-minute wait for the burger -
but A: that's because they literally grill it up from raw meat after you place the order, and B: I've almost never seen it take more than that ten
minutes even in the middle of a "there's a (concert|football game) at the stadium tonight!" dinner rush.
Plus, the patties are bigger than anyone else's I've seen; the standard burger comes with two patties rather than one; the most expensive burger is
only $5.79; you can order any combination of toppings you want and they'll assemble it by hand while you watch; and 15 out of the 17 available toppings
(i.e. everything but cheese and bacon) are free.
They also do some very good fries, but I don't usually order those because there's just too much of them. (We once determined, by observation, that a
single "regular size" order of Five Guys fries is enough to go around three people.)
I imagine it's possible that there might be a better possibly-fast-food burger out there. I just don't think it's very likely. That said, the
description of In-n-Out in this thread leaves me wanting to give them a try...
nothing to write home about and not particularly worth the price.) It had to be two, because just one would leave me hungry again before I got off work.
In my current job, my usual lunch almost immediately became a Five Guys bacon cheeseburger.
Admittedly, Five Guys is stretching the definition of "fast food" slightly, in that it's almost always about a ten-minute wait for the burger -
but A: that's because they literally grill it up from raw meat after you place the order, and B: I've almost never seen it take more than that ten
minutes even in the middle of a "there's a (concert|football game) at the stadium tonight!" dinner rush.
Plus, the patties are bigger than anyone else's I've seen; the standard burger comes with two patties rather than one; the most expensive burger is
only $5.79; you can order any combination of toppings you want and they'll assemble it by hand while you watch; and 15 out of the 17 available toppings
(i.e. everything but cheese and bacon) are free.
They also do some very good fries, but I don't usually order those because there's just too much of them. (We once determined, by observation, that a
single "regular size" order of Five Guys fries is enough to go around three people.)
I imagine it's possible that there might be a better possibly-fast-food burger out there. I just don't think it's very likely. That said, the
description of In-n-Out in this thread leaves me wanting to give them a try...