The burgers at Five Guys might be the star of the show, but let's face it, their french fries are a fantastic supporting act. French fries are a tough racket in the fast food industry, but Five Guys have nonetheless emerged well ahead of the pack...and according to some, they're the most popular fries around today. When you walk into any Five Guys, you'll notice right away that huge bags of potatoes are stacked everywhere. Those bags of potatoes aren't a fast food prop, either, they're just the fries that haven't yet reached their final form. Whereas most fast food restaurants receive their fries already sliced and frozen, that's never the case with Five Guys. Five Guys get all of their potatoes from northern Idaho, and they slice and fry them up fresh in each restaurant. Using the so-called "monster cutter," employees are able to quickly turn each potato into sliced fries, which are then pre-fried. The fries then get a "mush test" to determine if they've been undercooked. If everything checks out, the fries go back in the deep fryer for around two and a half minutes.
Every order of Five Guys fries also gets an extra "topper" of more fries, leaving a bonus pile at the bottom of each customer's bag. But there's obviously one major consequence to all this, all those fries equal a lot of calories. Most people probably won't exactly assume that the fries from Five Guys are good for them, but even then the actual statistics can come as a bit of a shock. A small serving of Five Guys fries contains 530 calories, while the large size contains an incredible 1,310 calories. If you were going to burn off all those calories from a small order of Five Guys fries, you would need to walk for around 143 minutes. But hey, a little bit of exercise is a small price to pay for perfection, right?
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