Which NON-MAJOR North American fast food chain do you think is best?

[MCheetah]

Sonic

Jack In The Box

Church's Chicken (This sh*t is NASTY! LOL!)

Out of the lesser known ones, which fast food chain do you think is the best? This is NOT including the major ones like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Little Caesar's, Subway, KFC, Popeyes, Dairy Queen, Starbucks, or Dunkin' Donuts. These are usually regional places not found everywhere in North America. Many of these places are only found in the South, Midwest, or the West Coast.

I myself haven't been to most of these places except Checkers, Chick-Fil-A, Texas Chicken and Burgers, and Church's Chicken (which is the epitome of trashy ghetto fast food chains, with horrible food), but Sonic and Raising Cane's both look delicious.

If you've never been to any of these places before, just write "None" in the comments or explain that you've never tried any of 'em before, but I didn't have enough room for a poll option for that.

Whataburger / Sonic

Texas Chicken and Burgers

Checkers / Rally's

Carl's Jr. / Hardee's

In-N-Out Burger / Jack In The Box

Chick-Fil-A

Raising Cane's / Church's Chicken

Updates

11 mo

Part 2:
Which NON-MAJOR North American fast food chain do you think is best (Part II)? ↗

[AviatorTom]

I wouldn't call Chick-Fil-A is a NON-MAJOR chain, though it's regionally based mostly in the Southeast.. Overall, it did $15 billion in revenue in 2021, and its $4 million per unit is more than a typical McDonalds.

So, I'll go with Firehouse Subs. Excellent food at reasonable prices. Though some may say it's also a MAJOR chain, sold for $1 billion in 2021.

[Likes2drive]

Chick-fil-A

[MCheetah]

Kinda sad not one person voted for Checkers / Rally's. That used to be a beloved local Philly establishment for burgers. More so than McDonalds or Wendy's. Checker's is mostly a Northeast place though, but Rally's is in the Midwest and South. Their fries are amazing, at least, but they also have the best cost-for-taste ratio out of all of these places. The cheapest-but-best-tasting fast food kind of like the Little Caesar's of burgers. Just don't get the hot dogs.

[Likes2drive]

I haven’t been to one of those in years specially since most of them closed up around here

[Likes2drive]

They had great milkshakes

[Emiliamazing]

All five of us really like raising canes. It takes slightly longer than the less desirable chicken places, but we think the flavor and quality is better.

[MCheetah]

It's too bad it's only in the Southwest/West Coast area. I've heard good things about Raising Cane's.

[Emiliamazing]

Is that so? We first found it when visiting some friends in Colorado a couple years ago.

[Emiliamazing]

Thank you for the MHO! Maybe I'll check out a Rally's someday, I've never had the opportunity.

[annabananna]

Chick fil a and Raising Canes are a tie.

[musicbrain5]

None, since we don’t have those restaurants here.

[MCheetah]

Canada's only obscure fast food chain is Tim Hortons and it's not really a thing in the US.

[musicbrain5]

Tim Hortons sucks balls now. Nothing is made fresh there anymore and it’s not even Canadian owned anymore. It’s all about the $$$

[musicbrain5]

Oh also I just learned that Chick-Fil-A recently opened some locations here. I’ll have to go on the weekend and try it out.

[Stoner710]

what is your options carl's jr

there's a better one there called dick (might be only seattle based) but they have amazing burgers also it allows for great jokes for your girlfriend about having dicks in her mouth

[BlueScorpio]

N and out was amazing, I had it cali.. it was so freaking good and fries where off the chain.

[Fuentes]

Fast food is gross lol I make my own food defenitley safer but Cali has all listed but Texas I don't know if that's here n never been, but in the past I have tried all but TX.

[MCheetah]

Texas Chicken and Burgers is mainly only an NYC/Philly/Baltimore place, ironically. The West Coast equivalent would be In-N-Out Burger, but the actual restaurants themselves look ghetto as f*ck, just Church's Chicken usually does.




Going by the Philly locations, they're ONLY in the 'Hood, ha ha!

[Fuentes]

Lol they needa expand their restaurants and get out the hood if they want Hella traffic hahaha

[midnightmoon05]

No idea…I don’t eat any of that stuff.

[exitseven]

There is a chain in the northeast called Five Guys that is very good.

[MCheetah]

Yes, that is my favorite burger place in the US. But it's in most states in the US, so I consider it too big for this list.

https://restaurants.fiveguys.com

Also not really a "fast food chain," but a specialty hamburger restaurant. Kinda like how TGI Friday's and Chili's aren't fast food.

[Mangospacho]

Yeah but you forgot Roy Rogers. It should be Raising Canes/Roy Rogers

[MCheetah]

I've never even heard of a restaurant called Roy Rogers before. And I barely know the singer. Apparently, it's only a Philly/Baltimore/DC greater area restaurant (which is ironic, cause I grew up in Philly and still never heard of this place before. Elverson, PA is still way too far away, though).

Not just that, but it's not even in any actual major cities, so you'd more-than-likely only ever find one while driving on the interstate somewhere.

https://www.royrogersrestaurants.com/locations

This restaurant is too small and obscure for the list. There's other smaller places I wanted to put on here too, like Chipotle, Quizno's, Wing Street, Panera Bread, Arby's, Panda Express, Jimmy Johns, Culver's, Wing Stop, Jersey Mike's, Del Taco, Firehouse Subs, Tim Horton's, and Boston Market. Guess I'll do a part 2.

[Mangospacho]

Yeah they have them in New Jersey too. I wasn’t sure if you had heard of them.

[LemiaOfThunder]

UK chains

Mcdonalds
Domineos
Pizza Hit
KFC
Nandos
Subway
Burger King.

[Ninania]

Carl's Junior, cause it's the only one of these we have in Denmark.

[TroyDT2]

I avoid fast food, but my friends love In n Out and Canes.

[A_Bell]

Whataburger

Cookout

[sage2021]

Definitely In-N-Out burger 🍔

[msc545]

They are all unhealthy and sort of awful.

[Iron_Man]

Chick-Fil-A

[Chazmatazz269]

Five Guys

[HeyBenSultan]

Popeyes🤤🤤🤤

[JesseJayNeak]

In-N-Out

[jimmy2]

Hands down chic fla