Five Guys Hits Miami

Miami New Times:

Like the West Coast’s renowned In-N-Out Burger chain, the East Coast’s Five Guys Famous Burgersand Fries has distinctive retro Fifties décor. In fact the motif is so similar, down to the red-and-white-checked walls, that the California chain, family-owned since 1948, allegedly once considered a copycat suit against Five Guys (family-owned when its first 6 eateries opened in the D.C. area between 1986 and 2002).

A more crucial similarity between the 2: Unlike the McWendy’s of the world, neither stoops to salads with industrial packaged dressings, or makes hypocritical attempts to pass as bastions of health food. Both stick to the extremely specialized menus they’ve always served, centering on fresh — never frozen — hand-formed burgers, and fries hand-cut shortly before cooking (in 100% pure, cholesterol-free vegetable oil — or peanut at Five Guys).

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