The Best Burgers You Can Get at a Fast Food Restaurant

This upscale chain burger comes with hardwood-smoked bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, mayo, and a wide choice of possible cheeses — American, cheddar, Swiss, pepper jack, provolone, or “bleu cheese crumbles.”

Unlike Taco Bell, this chain (which has locations only in the South, the West, and parts of the Midwest) offers burgers as well as Mexican-ish fare. The Double Del combines two patties with tomatoes, lettuce, diced onions, American cheese, and the house burger sauce.

At these sister chains (Carl’s Jr. in the West, Hardee’s in the East), this specialty burger — slightly thicker than the usual fast-food patty — comes with American cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and dill ranch dressing on a toasted potato bun.

Considered this chain’s flagship burger, the Jumbo Jack tops its patty with lettuce, tomato, pickles, chopped onions, ketchup, and Jack in the Box’s own mayo-onion sauce.

American cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, pickles, ketchup, and Smash Sauce (a mustardy mayo with chopped pickles) add up to a “classic” here.