How the Fast Food Burgers bracket works
Fast food burger tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — In-N-Out Double-Double or Big Mac? Whopper or Baconator? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 16-deep order worth screenshotting.
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. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same choice can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. 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 In-N-Out Double-Double, Big Mac, Whopper and Baconator.
In-N-Out Double-Double
In-N-Out Burger
Big Mac
McDonald's
Whopper
Burger King
Baconator
Wendy's
Five Guys Cheeseburger
Five Guys
SmashBurger Classic
Smashburger
ShackBurger
Shake Shack
Quarter Pounder with Cheese
McDonald's
Dave's Single
Wendy's
Whataburger
Whataburger
ButterBurger
Culver's
McDouble
McDonald's
Rodeo Burger
Burger King
Animal Style Burger
In-N-Out
Original Steakburger
Steak 'n Shake
Thickburger
Hardee's
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 4 completed Fast Food Burgers brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
In-N-Out Double-Double
11W - 2L · won 2 brackets
85%
win rate
- 2
Big Mac
9W - 3L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 3
McDouble
6W - 4L
60%
win rate
- 4
Whopper
4W - 3L · won 1 bracket
57%
win rate
- 5
SmashBurger Classic
5W - 4L
56%
win rate
- 6
Animal Style Burger
4W - 4L
50%
win rate
- 7
Baconator
3W - 4L
43%
win rate
- 8
Dave's Single
3W - 4L
43%
win rate
- 9
Whataburger
3W - 4L
43%
win rate
- 10
Thickburger
3W - 4L
43%
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.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Fast Food Burgers bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Fast Food Burgers 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?
In-N-Out Double-Double, Big Mac, Whopper, Baconator, Five Guys Cheeseburger, SmashBurger Classic, ShackBurger, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Dave's Single, Whataburger, ButterBurger and McDouble, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the fast food burger 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 Burgers 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.