How the Fast Food Chains bracket works
Fast food tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — McDonald's or Chick-fil-A? In-N-Out Burger or Wendy's? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 16 choices in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 16 choices in the field. Because the draw is shuffled, two people playing the same bracket rarely face the same matchups. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger and Wendy's.
McDonald's
Burgers & Fries
Chick-fil-A
Chicken Sandwiches
In-N-Out Burger
Burgers
Wendy's
Burgers & Frosties
Taco Bell
Mexican-Inspired
Chipotle
Burritos & Bowls
Five Guys
Burgers & Fries
Popeyes
Fried Chicken
Burger King
Burgers
Raising Cane's
Chicken Fingers
Whataburger
Burgers
Subway
Subs & Sandwiches
Panda Express
Chinese-American
KFC
Fried Chicken
Shake Shack
Burgers & Shakes
Sonic Drive-In
Burgers & Drinks
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 16 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 107 completed Fast Food Chains brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Chick-fil-A
178W - 88L · won 19 brackets
67%
win rate
- 2
Taco Bell
119W - 92L · won 13 brackets
56%
win rate
- 3
Raising Cane's
123W - 98L · won 9 brackets
56%
win rate
- 4
McDonald's
120W - 98L · won 8 brackets
55%
win rate
- 5
Five Guys
122W - 100L · won 6 brackets
55%
win rate
- 6
Chipotle
106W - 95L · won 11 brackets
53%
win rate
- 7
Popeyes
105W - 99L · won 6 brackets
51%
win rate
- 8
In-N-Out Burger
104W - 100L · won 5 brackets
51%
win rate
- 9
Burger King
91W - 101L · won 5 brackets
47%
win rate
- 10
Subway
86W - 104L · won 3 brackets
45%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- 2The default run puts all 16 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Fast Food Chains bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Fast Food Chains bracket?
The pool holds 16 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which choices are included?
McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Five Guys, Popeyes, Burger King, Raising Cane's, Whataburger and Subway, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the fast food tier list take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Fast Food Chains community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a choice I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.