The counter is great, although in a conversation about 5 Guys it's comparing a restaurant-style (or arguably, upscale diner-style) single-large patty burger with a fast food-size much smaller one. There's more meat in a single patty at The Counter than in two at Five Guys.

Restaurant-style prices too, albeit at the very reasonable end of that at least by the somewhat elevated standards around here. We have a better and cheaper local burger-place*, but my wife likes the counter a lot for the bowls and it's both better and a better value than a lot of the other local places.

(* Jeffrey's; they may not be wrong in saying they're the Bay Area's best, but they're certainly the certainly the best in the part of the mid-Peninsula between Burlingame/San Mateo/Belmont/San Carlos which is about the range of my 'hood where I can say I've pretty much tried everywhere that may qualify that isn't brand new.)