Fast Food Prestige Rankings

As the high school class of ’23 prepares to apply to highly selective student organizations such as “The Cornell Hedge Fund” and IU Kelly’s elite “Investment Banking Workshop”, I think it’s only right to rank these high school jobs so prospects know which to highlight on their resume and which to avoid like the plague.

Tier 1A (the pinnacle of fast-food prestige) Starbucks, Chick-fil-A

Tier 1B (respected name brands with strong exits) Chipotle, Panera Bread, In-n-Out Burger

Tier 2 (strong names, above shops will take you as a lateral) Panda Express, Jimmy John’s, Five Guys

Tier 3 (try hard to lateral to a better shop) Raising Cane’s, Domino’s, Dunkin, Wendy’s, Jersey Mike’s

Tier 4 (leave off the resume) Subway, Popeye’s, Little Caesar’s, McDonald’s, KFC

Tier 5 (worse than NW Mutual) Taco Bell, Whataburger, Burger King, Arby’s

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Taco Bell is tier 2 nothing hits better than being black out drunk and having a steak quesadilla

 

Starbucks food is absolute bottom tier dogshit and Popeyes is tier 1A quality.

For a QSR that treats its customers worse than Guantanamo Bay advanced interrogators treat detainees, there is a reason that establishment is still in business.

 

Fixed it for you…

Tier 1A (the pinnacle of fast-food prestige)Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, ChipotleTier

1B (respected name brands with strong exits)Panera Bread, In-n-Out Burger

Tier 2 (strong names, above shops will take you as a lateral)Wendy's, Jimmy John's, Five Guys, Taco Bell, Subway, Pret a Manger, Shake Shack

Tier 3 (try hard to lateral to a better shop)Domino's, Dunkin, Jersey Mike's, Papa John's , Sonic, Panda Express, Culver's, Wingstop, Zaxby's, Firehouse

Tier 4 (leave off the resume)Popeye's, Little Caesar's, McDonald's, KFC, Raising Cane's, Pizza Hut, Whataburger, Hardee's/Carls Jr, Del Taco, Coffee Bean

Tier 5 (worse than NW Mutual)Jack in the Box, Burger King, Arby's, Dairy Queen, White Castle

 

Eh I went for the first time since college around a month ago. Chicken tenders were small and dry. Fries were not fresh. Bread was a banger just as I remembered.

Sweet tea absolutely slapped tho.

Maybe they had a bad day, but it was nothing like I remember it being back in college.

 

Eh I went for the first time since college around a month ago. Chicken tenders were small and dry. Fries were not fresh. Bread was a banger just as I remembered.

Sweet tea absolutely slapped tho.

Maybe they had a bad day, but it was nothing like I remember it being back in college.

 

7-11

Royal Farms

Wawa and Sheetz are magnets/money makers, too.

May not be prestige, yet.

7-11 Coffee is really good and right price...not kidding. 

I also like Royal Farms anything, up and coming.  Think middle class family magnet as a service to them and great revenue source happily paid during vacations and travel.

 

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