Five Guys Burgers and Fries Rushden Lakes — Restaurant in England

If proof is required that the United kingdom has gone round the bend the perfect analogy is "Five Guys"

Extremely overated expensive substandard food. The hotdog for instance. Far better and larger is served at a fraction of the price at a famous American Discount warehouse. Seriously the quality of five guys hotdog is pants. A tiny no snap, no flavour and poorly cooked poor imitation.

The burger or burger meat is good. But completely ruined with the preparation, cooking and subsequent way it's served.

As soon as you order, the bun and chosen toppings are placed on silver foil on a table in a freezing cold restaurant and there they await the cooked burger.

WRONG! The toppings should go on the burger during cooking that way they don't make the burger stone cold when it's served to you. And that burger is constantly abused and flattened during cooking which litteraly squeezes all the flavour out.

£23 for a hot dog, cheeseburger large fries and small milk shake. Are you kidding me? Why buy this utter rubbish? But hey we knew it was expensive but we're willing give it a go assuming some quality was going to be served.

The existing chains do a far better job and if you went and bought quality ingredients from either a butcher or supermarket I calculate you could cook 20+ burger meals far superior to what five guys churn out.

I can't fail to mention this either, on the adjacent table to us, a young mum with her offspring and five friends celebrating a birthday. So that was seven burger meals and drinks and she had spent just north of £65.

First time in here I enquired, yes and the last she replied. Can't believe what I've just spent she said with a nervous laugh. And that prompted the gentleman sitting behind us to chip in with yep cold over priced rubbish.

Worst fries I've ever had he quipped. Yes I said I thought they were supposed to be something special. All they were was slightly warm over priced incorrectly cooked chips. I ask you? They had a lad just cooking fries and he was cooking far to many far to soon and the quality was non existent.

Do your wallet and tastebuds a favour and eat...

Visited Saturday 23nd March 2019 at 3pm. As a seasoned five guys aficionado this location was very disappointing. Mushrooms were thickly sliced with no flavour and they were not fried or grilled, resembling ones from a can. I witnessed open buns sat in the side with the dry mushrooms and onions sat on there for at least five minutes before the burger was created. Usually all toppings are fried on the grill so that they get that that lovely rustic flavour along with at least some kind of spice or seasoning (two weeks previously my wife and i had correctly cooked mushrooms and other toppings in one of their london locations). Here the buns were only just defrosted and not warmed or toasted in any way which meant i returned mine for a replacement burger as it was stone cold. Normally when you get a five guys burger there are flavours and juice running out from the toppings and burger into the bun below hence why the foil wrapper is there. That is why i love five guys as i love a dirty burger, unfortunately these were dry burgers like you get in somewhere like Byron burger. The burger itself was overcooked and thinner than usual and none of the lovely slightly pink inside. I won't visit this location again but i will head to five guys in London in the future as i have always had great burgers there. Even my replacement one wasn't decent here. Five guys usually gives you that great combination of tasty beef and a copious amount of other flavours from the fried toppings. Additionally as others have mentioned the air con or extraction device is shockingly loud with music blaring out over the top of it to try and cover it up. The environment then feels really intense and far from a relaxing dining experience. Wild wood do a decent venison burger if you fancy better food with better...

Awful place. Went because friends wanted to. Tried to book a table for 6 but they don't take bookings but I was told not to worry they would sort us out if there was not a table (I suppose they magic you up a table). Got there and no one to really give a toss about where we sat. Dragged two two person tables together so that 3 of us could sit but a manager rushed over to stop us sitting together. Apparently it's not that if you are thick all you can do is flip burgers - no if you are even thicker than that you get to manage people who flip burgers and make up rules on the hoof. While surrounded by tables of six and a family behind us sat as two joined small tables like we wanted to do apparent it there was some rule that stopped us doing the same. Perhaps 5 guys might like to employ managers that can read write and understand the widely publicized rule of 6!

Another table at that point was leaving so we took that table. Naturally this well meaning manager was so concerned about covid-19 rules that he lacked the common sense to disinfect the table before we moved to it and throughout our stay during which time many people left non of the tables were disinfected!

The 6 person booth table we sat at forced us to sit closer than the movable tables we had chosen.

The meetup group I run will never ever visit this appalling place ever again,...