Red Robin

Red Robin is the burger chain you sit down in, with a server, a booth and a birthday song if someone at the table admits to it. It grew out of an old Seattle tavern that started selling gourmet burgers in 1969, and the whole identity rests on two ideas: big, loaded burgers, and Bottomless Steak Fries that keep coming as long as you keep eating.

Where most burger chains chase simplicity, Red Robin goes the other way. Burgers arrive topped with fried eggs, grilled pineapple, onion straws soaked in whiskey barbecue sauce and fried jalapeño coins. A big menu refresh in 2023 upgraded most of the ingredients without touching the burgers people drive there for.

Roughly 500 restaurants across the United States and Canada.