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Most certainly, because not all places get the same ingredients from the same source. Even the quality of water is dependent. And the workers themselves, frankly every restaurant quality varies from location to location, you can go to two different Olive Gardens and have completely different experiences, same exact order, but maybe order wrong, or the garlic bread isn't good,
@@IvyBrooksHobkin I remember visiting Louisiana for the first time a few years ago and stopping at a McDonalds. Weirdest soda I've ever tasted. Turns out all the water there tasted like algae.
Right even McDonalds has a huge difference between different McDonalds and locations in terms of how warm the food is how fresh the fries are how clean the place is how fast the service is and if they get you're order right. Though I wouldn't say McDonalds is good food there is a very clear differnce between a McDonalds with employee's and managers that actually try and McDonalds that just look like the employee's have given up on life a nd just don't have any pride in what they do which is understandable when you're working in a Mcdonalds for minimum wage but there still a clear difference in just that and then added that different locations will have different food suppliers and what not. I remember a local restaurant where I used to live that there was a huge difference in quality and service in this sushi place when the owner was in versus when he was at his other restaurant.
Charlie put Steak n Shake up in “A” for a fond memory of doing magic tricks there once. That’s probably the best endorsement for any Steak n Shake I’ve ever seen.
Steak n Shake used to be the most popular place where I used to live and it was by far the best restaurant in the area however quality differs where you live
I had a friend that worked at our local Steak N Shake, such a trash fast food place. The food was mediocre at best and at worst it was complete shit. The kitchens weren't clean, some of the staff were super sketchy like I remember one got arrested for having drugs on them while at work at the Steak N Shake. I wanna believe other franchises are of higher quality but I'd never eat at one after reliably having awful food from there when I was in high school.
The one over in the villages (in florida) used to be a full restaurant, now they are turning it into like a fast food restaurant. food still tastes great though
I was with my friend at Culver's and the same thing happened. We waited like 10 minutes for food but we didn't complain or anything. Just sitting down talking and chilling and the guy comes up with our food and he told us that for the long wait we would have a full refund. Automatic fan of Culver's, deserves S tier.
Yeah I work at a Culver's and if an order exceeds ten minutes then we usually give them a free pint. when it gets busy though, then we don't because then everybody would get free pints but otherwise when it's slow then yeah we do that.
@@firebros2363 which is crazy because I have to wait just as long going to chik fil a, but Culvers is always made fresh and the food is the absolute bomb. It’s by far my favorite fast food place. If I ever moved, Culvers would be one of the things I missed the most lol
@@HieronymousLex Culver’s is so basic when it comes to food tho, sure compared to McDonald’s it’s better but They’re food is incredibly bland and generic
Last time I went to Culvers we ordered our food and struck up a short conversation with the head "burger maker". Not only was the food so fresh and good, the guy literally came and sat with us to talk and hang out. Next level customer service. Been going for years.
When Matt said "their food tastes like they cut open a plastic bag and dumped it in a fryer" He is 100% correct, I work at Sonic and literally everything comes frozen and in plastic bags.
Its always so weird how your perspective changes when you make the fast food. I'm lucky cuz I work at a sandwich shop and it's pretty clean and fresh but there are some horror stories from previous employees at fast food chains.
@@christianmiller2828 I'm sure it makes you feel so much more prideful serving your food, knowing you are using fresh ingredients. I would say definitely don't eat at any sonic, just from personal experience and knowledge about the other Sonics in the area. We havnt gotten new machines in the kitchen, since the place opened in like 2003 apperantly.
@@ImHoA Definitely. Worked at a BBQ restaurant where most everything was made to order and fresh. Felt good serving good tasty food. However some things like Fries are better frozen, a local place has fresh cut fries and they are awful and soggy. Freezing them actually makes them crispier in the end. Also some brands of frozen onion rings are pretty good too. So not everything frozen is bad.
Me too bro. Our reach in freezers never work either so our strips and popcorn are always soggy as fuck as well. Shame... but we have a great fountain crew.
18:05 he's right about some restaurants in different countries being incredible. I was in guatemala and the taco bell was literally an old cathedral that they made into a taco bell. There was a huge bell in the middle that you could ring and stained cathedral glass. The same thing with mcdonalds; it looked like a palace when you walked in and it had an entire garden in the back with seating. Lastly, the wendys there was a 2 story building hahaha. Guatemala don't mess around.
This. Right. Here. 👌🏽❣️ My entire family has at some point in their life worked at Publix, and my aunt is still a manager of the Bakery after like a decade. I want one of my life goals to be working at Publix lmao.
@canadiananim8r personally I'm revolted by chick fil a. Never liked anything served there Papa John's is pretty bad too but your also treating your opinions like fact and insulting people in the process just makes you a giant asshole
@canadiananim8r no he put Chick Fil A at B, and Papa Johns deserves an S, it’s the best pizza on this list, although I haven’t tried MOD and I remember really liking the Sam’s Club pizza but still wouldn’t put it on the same tier, and Domino’s fits well at A. So there’s no reason why Papa John’s shouldn’t be S, I’d choose them over Publix Deli and Popeyes tbh
I’ve worked at my Culver’s location for over 2 years and I can confidently say when love and effort is put into food and service you can see a big difference in the quality of the food and the smiles of guests. It’s a good time!
The reason Dunkin is so inconsistent is because their turnover rate is so high. They higher mostly teenagers that quit after a month because of how badly Dunkin treats their workers. Since no one works there for long, by the time they actually learn how to make coffee they quit. My brother worked there for two months and he was the longest working employee there.
"Dunkin's consistency is the worst I've ever had." My man has cleary never been to a Tim Hortons. You can order the same thing every day for a week and get something different wrong with your order every time.
@@BasidialQuill no it really doesn't go down to the South But I worked at a couple in the States and the first one was great and we had die hard regulars The second one the owner would yell straight into your face if he was just having a bad day and we never had more than 3 staff even when it was busy so everything made there was so bad
Glad to see Culver's get the respect it deserves. The chicken uses a different breading, yeah, but the taste is so much better than most places because they let the chicken do the talking, not the breading. Also, the best fast food onion rings ever, no fucking question
"Sonic Taste Like they just cut open a bag and put it in a fryer" Me: "remembering when I worked at sonic, and about 75% of the cooking was cutting open a bag and throwing it in the fryer."
Once I got my order wrong because of my own stupidity, and Culvers gave me a free meal ticket and a free redo of my order. Culvers is great. Their chicken tenders kinda suck tho ngl.
Yeah, I would say the Chicken Tenders at Culver’s are probably the one thing that isn’t an Ace. And yet their spicy crispy chicken sandwich is a banger like everything else. Culver’s is incredible.
Subway is the most hilariously inconsistent food place I've ever been too. I've gotten the exact same sandwich from the same location made by the same employee only a week apart and one will be awesome and the other one of the worst sandwiches I've ever had. Going there is like playing Russian Roulette with your taste buds.
@@MarcusCollins69 Hard agree, they're the lowest paying fast food place in my town by fucking $3/hr. Consistency does not exist there. Also not a fan of being judged by a 15 year old for every ingredient choice I make
@@flaviottyd idk, a 15 year old wouldn't be hired usually because subway usually dislikes people taking lunch breaks with only two staff members working at once. Also, the best employees usually don't give that wtf look unless you get something like meatball and tuna. In that case, wtf are you doing
The only reason I'd ever go to 7 eleven is for it's slurpies and candy, The last time I had their food I got real bad food poisoning and I usually have a pretty high tolerance for bad foods that'd mess you're stomach up
Papa John’s in my area is F-Tier. Delivery drivers and managers cuss everyone out no matter the occasion you’re calling. We didn’t specify what color the house was and my brother got berated with insults by the driver, called about it and the manager said he dgaf and insulted. Customer service and experience is half the tier list for me, and they ruined my opinion of papa John’s. The food was cold as well.
Ya know, as someone who is a LOCAL, to the state of Louisiana, and a resident, of someone who actually knows WELL how much prep work Popeye's actually GOES THROUGH, it makes me feel proud to know that he put Popeye's at S-tier.
There used to be a McDonalds in Iceland, but they refused to use local food and wanted everything shipped from the US, and in Iceland shipping cost is insane so they went out of business extremely fast
As a native midwesterner, I am glad Charlie loves Culver’s. Culver’s has always been my favorite fast food restaurant since I was a little kid, that shit bangs.
As a Minnesotan it's by far one of the best fast food places you could ever go to in my area for a good juicy burger and fries and dont forget the custard
having worked at little caesar's, our dough was made fresh that morning and we actually had pricey ingredients compared to when i worked at pizza hut. It's incredible how the ingredients themselves are good but the pizza turns out shit
I love little caesars when we were poor and had to feed a lot of people their pizza was always reliable and good, simple but honestly way better options than other places.
No joke, last meal I had with my grandpa was at an arby's, and the sandwiches they gave us were frozen in the middle. He died less than two days later after that.
Steak n Shake is one of my favorites myself. A really fun place to eat at. I always get my food fast. I get pretty big portions for the cost comparatively to my area. It has declined in quality over the past like 10 years, but that seems to be from cost crunches. But the food to me still tastes good, I never feel sick after eating it, and I feel happy eating there. Culvers is another one where Charlie won a slam dunk by having a correct opinion.
"I've never had a bad sonic experience, it is just really underwhelming and forgettable." I see you haven't played Sonic 06, because then you would've had a horrible time.
Fuck me dude. I was like 12 when I played it and I was like this game looks cool as shit and has awesome music. Even as a 12 year old I realized it was the worst game I’ve ever played
I also think his specific issue with the tortilla is that some employees don't drain the food enough. If you carelessly slop the beans, meat, and salsa into a burrito it will have like a solid ounce of fluid in it.
@@nevadanate4957 I had that exact shit happen to me when I ordered tacos, it was like a fucking liter of cooked meat water soaking the soft tacos. that shit was three years ago and I never went back
I remember as a teenager, my mom and I got burger king and that was the first and only time I witness my mom or human being in general punch a burger out of anger. lol that laugh was the best thing that I've ever gotten from burger king.
The Culvers and Five Guys workers are the only fast food workers that are passionate about their jobs. I’d go as far to say they bridge the gap between fast food and a restaurant.
@@lextheboogeyman7633 somebody will say the same thing about everything you enjoy as well. Today you are on this side, tomorrow you will be defending your favorite anime against an army of perceived haters.
I’m going to just run out into the deep end of the pool with fists up blazing and say Long John Slivers are right up there with Gordan Ramsays cooking, maybe even better! AND I SAY THAT WITH ALL MY SOUL
My friend from Poland says their KFC is absolutely immaculate and it shocks me because my local KFC has been shut down AT LEAST three times for health code violations
@@Antraz2115 My Brother went on a school trip to Romania and told me that in Eastern Europe there's some type of food additive that's super delicious but hella sketchy and banned pretty much everywhere else in the world except Eastern Europe. He said that the KFC he had in Romania and Poland were gas. Maybe that has something to do with it.
I live in Australia and was surprised that KFC was put so low, same with subway, both being the only fast food places I’ll go to. Dunno what’s going on in America
@@whitty0033 in America KFC allegedly has the inconsistency in a whole lotta places. It’s either soggy, greasy, and overly-salty chicken, or it’s really good kfc chicken. I’ve personally never had kfc but this is what people are saying. Most likely kfc in other places are very good.
I know I’m a year late but Matt said something I couldn’t let slide. He said Chick-fil-A chicken is dry and PDQ is moist. He is dead wrong. Chick-fil-A has most of the moistest chicken you’ll ever get, while PDQ is as dry an a desert. His logic about the sauces is correct but he mixed up the restaurants, every PDQ sandwich comes standard with a sauce of some type on it cuz the chicken is so dry while Chick-fil-A doesn’t even have a sandwich that comes with sauce on it cuz the chicken is so moist it doesn’t need it.
As a Culvers EMPLOYEE, im happy you have us as an S tier, Love you Charlie for that and next time you go, order cheese sauce with tenders....you will thank me later
Culver’s employee here 42:33 Orders at Culver’s take around 4 or so minutes to make; all the food is made to order. The manager was apologetic because there may have been a mistake while the food was being made, and it took longer to do so.
I've only eaten at a Culver's once but they reminded me of In N Out, even the kitchen was set up similarly (more open than other fast food places) and It seems like they hire more people than the other fast food chains (Makes sense as both of them can have lines out the door). Wish there was one in my area.
charlie, im telling you. order a six inch from subway with any bread, mozerela cheese, pepperoni, salami, banana peppers, lettuce, jalahpenos, cooked, olives, oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and you will taste heaven.
Burger King is actually pretty good in the NE. I had it in Seattle a few years ago and was absolutely shocked how disgusting it is out there. So must be a regional thing in terms of quality. The Burger King around me is one of my favorite places to go to
At dunkn and donut shops I've seen they give the 17yrold kid who just started responsibility to do all jobs by themselves so that's why your coffee is fucked
yeah I used to work at a Dunkin’ and I was 17 when I started working there lol. I’m 23 now and go the same Dunkin I worked at almost daily and the consistency now is so fucked. The only person who makes my coffee a 10/10 is either the manager or this like 40 year old woman who loved me when I worked there and has been there for a while.
First time i got the coffee from dunkin it straight up tasted like they put hand sanitizer in it and i refused to drink it and everytime i go which i barely do its always bad and the coffee always sucks
I think the reason people hype In N Out over Five guys is that In N Out is good, and costs what you'd expect for a burger, while Five Guys is good but costs a mortgage payment.
This video just reminded me... I was employed by A&W in July 2009 (I signed the papers and they ordered my uniform). They told me they'd call me for my first shift when my uniform arrived. Its almost 2022 now and I still haven't received a call from them. I was never officially fired and I did sign the papers, so I guess I'm still technically employed but still waiting for my uniform and first shift 13 years later.
KFC in the UK absolutely bangs and is easily A tier, idk what they've done to make it so ass in the US but I'm heading there in a bit so I guess I'll see why
KFC was my first job. An elderly woman died from eating our food. IN THE STORE. I got to work and was confused about why we were closed until someone told me.
Lmao I was gonna say. He must have done a ghost pepper/spicy ramen/Dr. Burnorium's psycho serum challenge as a baby if this is the rankings he put together after eating at these places his whole life 😭
Gotta say, any time I've ever eaten at Sonic, both in Michigan and in Tennessee, they completely messed our order up. They managed to get everything wrong. How do you ask for a chicken sandwich and get a freaking hotdog?
i have friends who work at sonic and they say the way the place is ran makes no sense for it to be a fast food. these are people who have worked at multiple fast food places saying this. my theory is that if the system the place runs on doesn’t work that well, the service and food is going to be impacted negatively.
I’m a former sonic employee and can say it is might be due to the god awful speakers we have. Everything is garbled and I sometimes would have to ask customers to repeat their orders three times. If I still couldn’t understand I’d go outside to take their order face to face. Not everyone would do that, and due to understaffing I sometimes wasn’t able to and would just have to hope the order was correct. Also, at the store I worked at there were fountains, cooks, and carhops. Fountains are responsible for bagging, taking orders, making drinks, stocking, making ice cream, and helping the carhops if needed. Some stores don’t have fountains so the carhops do all that in addition to delivering the orders. So even if I( a fountain) got the order correct and put it in with any special directions on the ticket AND told the cooks myself, they’d mess it up 30% of the time. Fountains bag orders, so sometimes I’d catch it then, sometimes I’d be off doing one of my other tasks and someone else was bagging and wasn’t aware, sometimes it was wrapped and I didn’t catch the mistake( example: pickles on a no-pickle order). We were almost always understaffed so it was pretty chaotic 90% of the time, but we tried our best. Also, almost everyone I worked with was cranky about being there and didn’t want to work as a team( it was a stressful environment) which did not help things be efficient. Sadly I think the store I worked at was one of the more efficient ones, so I imagine it would be worse at other Sonics.
The problem with mine is that it's short term gain long term loss. The food tastes good but I always feel like shit after eating it. I've never gotten sick from it but oml is it common.
Wawa at S: you have chosen wisely. Personal story: my little bro has Downs Syndrome and works at our local Wawa, they treat him so well and work with his aide to keep him on track. Absolutely amazing company with wonderful coffee.
@@Jgoldie49 Papa John's of just kind of spongy if it was a little less spongy consistently it would be awesome, any other place would throw it out if there pizza was that chewy all the time, Weird texture.
i feel like they did something different (at least in my area they did) they decided to put good marinara sauce on the pizza finally! back than it was just cheesebread with topping really
I know Texas swears by Whataburger but they opened one up here in Lakeland FL and it was the greasiest burger I’ve ever had. It was disgusting! Apparently I’m not the only one who thought so seeing as how the building they built specifically for Whataburger is now a pediatric dentist. 😂
Late comment but whataburger should've stayed in Texas due to the fact that it's dependent on the store. I have a fantastic whataburger in my town but I've been to ones that are awful, it depends on the quality of the store, then again I only get the sweet and spicy bacon burger and nothing else.
My dad was one of the higher ups at long John's for several years. He also ran a couple of wendys. He always said the C suite was a bunch of old dudes that had refused to adapt to the times since he started there in high school, and it was like pulling teeth any time he tried to do anything to systemically get them out of the 70s.
It’s interesting to hear how different Chick-Fil-A is in a big city. I live in a smaller place and the Chick-Fil-A’s chicken is not dry at all and lines are only long on certain days.
My city DOT literally had to post a sign telling people not to line up in the street for Chick-Fil-A because it was such a problem for traffic. Eventually the Chick-Fil-A rerouted their drive thru so it started on a side road instead of the main one, but it was funny driving past the sign
Chickfila in my opinion is the most overrated fast food place of all time. I think it's B tier and not the best in the land like everyone around me says.
i like that all these people in the comments bashing him for his opinions yet pretty much every fast food restaurant's quality wildly differs from pretty much each state lmao
Yup for example, all fast food is complete garbage in Detroit since half the city is actually illiterate. They just don’t give a fuck one time I waited at a Popeyes for 30 minutes before I had my order taken meanwhile all the other patrons (who were black) got their orders taken right away, walk right up to the counter lmfao. Not to mention my chicken wasn’t cooked
Thanks to this tier list I’ve been going to Firehouse a lot lately and holy shit it’s just as great as they say it is. The Cherry Limeade is one of the best exclusive drinks ever. Easy S
Same. The one about 20 minutes away from me slaps, but one about 40 minutes away is absolute dog shit. Their donuts will be stale like only 2-3 hours afterwards
I literally forget how fucking close Charlie lives near me. And when he said the chipotle on Dale Mabry I legit panicked like…. “That’s the one next to my house”
Coming from someone that worked at mod for awhile I'd put it in S. The dough is fresh and pressed shortly before they are used for pizza. They make sure they keep all ingredients as fresh as possible. If the dough or certain toppings have been sitting there for too long we toss it and replace it with fresher ones. So in terms on quality mod has it in the park. But you can really customize your pizza to your heart's content. If you want half and half you can do that. If you want your pizza to be heavy on pepperoni or whatever they will do that for you. And the fact that they use a actual wood stove that you can see cooking the pizza is dope. And customer service is really good. We were taught to treat customers like homies. Like how some bars are we'll strike up conversation, ask how your day is, and generally show care for the customer. And my favorite about working there is that the employees are treated so good. Mod has shown so much support in me when I was going through alot of mental health issues. My manager would pull me out of work to talk outside and see what's wrong. She wanted to see how she could make work a better place for me. Like putting me on positions that allowed me to relax and not feel as stressed. They've offered mental health days if I break down while working and called me while I was at home to see if I'm ok. They generally actually cared. Also if you are working there they give you a lot of mental health resources. So if anyone wants to work at a place that will give you a great experience and support you no matter who you are, gay, trans, anything like that, mod is a great place. If you ever experienced some bad behavior from employees you work with don't be scared to bring it up to the higher ups. They will put their foot down. That's actually how my first manager got fired and how I got the manager that gave me alot of support. And theirs my review of mod.
PA resident here, Mod pizza is generally really well liked by everyone ive met. Ive been to 3 locations in pa and unlike other pizza places where quality is on a spectrum, mods quality is always top tier
As a Taco Bell employee, it’s completely location dependent. Our Taco Bell is one of the best in the company, but the next town over has one that’s at the bottom of the company’s list
I prefer Little Caesar's over other pizza brands. I don't know if I actually like the taste of Little Caesar's, but Pizza Hut and Papa Johns both taste like the general idea of pizza and not actual physical pizza. Beyond this one point, I agree with the ones I've tried.
If Charlie had tried Costco food court I believe an S+ tier would emerge. It’s honestly B tier food but at a third of the price you think it should be.
Dude their pizza slaps and soooo cheap. Me and the homies would walk in the exit door and say we were meeting our parents inside cause we didn’t have memberships but still wanted to grub lol
I actually tried to tally throughout the video. I had been to 7 and only seen 9 of the 67 total restaurants here. So yeah, that's one hell of an estimate you've got there. 89.5% for me, a generic European. Hot take: The best fast food restaurant is Sunset and it's a crime it isn't listed.
As a Wisconsinite, everyone loves Culver’s. I grew up from one that was less than 10 minutes away; used to bike there in the summer as a kid. Glad to see the love it gets now.
