Five Guys

Not a big chain fan, but these guys have very good burgers.

The best burger for under $10, period. Friendly staff, accurate orders. FREE peanuts... What else else do you need?

Better than your standard fast food place for a relatively small amount. Their hamburgers are very good and you can top them with a wide variety of options, most of which are free. Great and plentiful french fries

Remember when Five Guys appeared on the scene big-time?? You couldn’t ask for a better burger… well, you could but very few places served anything but a cooked, frozen patty. Nowadays there are a bunch of burger joints and restaurants that have stepped up their game and produced some really good burgers. Right now, I think we have plenty of good choices and some at better prices.

Where does that leave Five Guys? They are just another burger joint. Two people, two junior burgers with two regular drinks and a single large order of fries. How much? $25. The burger patty was tasty but it wasn’t as beefy as some other places like Checkers and it cost a heck of a lot more than Checkers. The fries were a bit overcooked and smelled/tasted like peanuts and there the small fry pieces outnumbered the bigger, juicier fries. The fries were not worth $6.02. Junior burgers are $6.54. Regular drink (free refills) is $2.39. So, for a whopping $14.95 I got a good burger and fries - about $1.50 less if I ordered a regular fry. Checkers (shout out) has a current “4 for $4” deal where you get all of that plus an apple pie for, you guessed it, $4 which is a savings of over $8.75 per person and the burgers are just as good and the regular fries are much better. McD’s has their Smokehouse burgers which are also yummy and cost less.

I know, Five Guys has all of those awards plastered on the walls of every shop. Look, I didn’t say it was bad… I’m just saying the competition has stepped up the game and for less money. At well over $10 a meal for a burger and fries, I’d rather sit in a sports bar, watch some TV and enjoy a nice beer with my burger and fries. Or for about the same price I can go to a variety of BBQ joints nearby and get a delicious BBQ brisket meal for about the same price. Five Guys has those tiled walls and bags of peanuts to look at and I hear the milkshakes are good too. Five Guys, welcome to 2018.

Great burgers. Great fries. Great, customizable grilled cheese sandwiches. They do a few things exceptionally well, with smiles on their faces. That combination is hard to find today. Reliable, high quality go to when you want what they've got.