I grew up in NOLA and remember that location. We first ate at Fuddruckers when visiting relatives in Houston and I remember being so excited when we got our own in NOLA. It was absolutely better back then. I went to one in the DC area and it was just kinda disappointed.

I think there is one at DFW D Terminal. It's been about a year since I ate there.

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So where does one get those foie gras burgers...?!

I much prefer both the burgers and the dining experience at Johnny Rockets to the one at Fuddruckers, at least comparing their Bay Area locations.

Red Robin is a good chunk pricier than either, and is much more a casual sit-down place that happens to focus on burgers than a "burger joint" per se - I'd imagine they see their competition more as Chilis or Applebees, given their pricing and rather broader non-burger menu (even with the heavy burger focus.)

Yup. And good local burger places are among the easiest things to find in most parts of the US that I've lived. For those on the peninsula south of San Francisco, Jersey Joe's (primarily a cheesteak place) in San Carlos and Jeffrey's in San Mateo both have very good burgers at reasonable prices.

For that matter, the central coast town which my wife is originally from is an absolute culinary wasteland - they don't even manage a good sit-down Mexican restaurant as far as I've found - but even THEY'VE got two good burger places, and a couple of good taco shops.

to me this is the worst burger place. Burger king and Mcdonalds are way better places.
the local place for me is in Hackensack New Jersey. I have never eaten there. it just doesn't look like Burger king or Mcdonalds.

I think of fuddruckers like wendys not the best fast food.

where you people live how many fudruckers are there?

I think in my area theres only 1.

how can you say that fuddruckers is bad if you've never even eaten there?

theres actualy 5. the closest is Paramus but it's still very close to Hackensack.

just by looking at the food when they were on commericals.

It just doesn't look like Burger king. I hope never to eat at fuddruckers.
there restaurant doesn't look to be all that great. when going into Manhatten you can see it, because it's on route 4.

Yeah you definitely have your own taste for food. I was actually really surprised that you thought Wendys is worse than McD and BK. In my opinion wendy is WAY better than McD and BK.

You can't judge food from commercials. If so, McDonald's would surely beat out Per Se or Daniel, given the marketing dollars McD's has to make their food look artificially good on TV.

Having eaten at a number of Fuddruckers, I'd say Fudds>Wendy's>BK>McD.

I did have one mediocre Fudd's experience, but all but that one have been delish. Contrast that with McDonald's, where all have been massive flops. ;)

MY local fuddruckers will make me some fresh ground beef, or bison, just for a RARE burger :D

That puts them pretty high up there for me, unless I go to a nice very high end (with a high end price) place that will do super rare ground, which even many of them won't do.

Fudd's is not remotely comparable to McD's/BK in size of burger, in price, or in speed. It's more in the Johnny Rockets/Nation's territory.

Agreed. I was making a comparison based on the chains mentioned by the poster I was replying to.

Among the ones you mentioned: I wouldn't disagree that Johnny Rockets makes a better burger. I do like Fudd's customizeability and breadth of options on the menu, but the basic burger itself is probably done better at JR's.

You're probably right about RR, too, but we have one of those here locally, so it's not "exotic" to me like Fudd's and JR are. :p

BTW, speaking of the culinary wasteland of the Central Coast: you may be right, but Good Ol' Burger just off 101 at 46 in Paso is just about the best burger I've had anywhere. Darn, I miss those burgers...

wendy's reminds me of tacobell and white castle.

while burgerking and mcdonalds are great fast food restaurants, I'm not saying there as good as Ruby tuesdays or houilhans but they are great fast food restaurants great burgers and fries.

how many places does fudruckers have 5 in my area.

I think theres a burger king or mcdonalds in every town in my area plus in the malls.

I don't mind Fud's but I wish they would flame grill their burgers. Their fries suck however..