When you are craving a juicy hamburger, nothing can kill the mood faster than hearing that your favorite burger joint is heating up patties that were delivered frozen on a truck from some facility hundreds of miles away.
As the name implies, the patties at Smashburger are "hand-smashed to order" according to the burger chain's website.
According to Fuddruckers, everything is prepared on-site, and that includes their patties. Nothing is grilled until an order is placed, and once it's time to prepare your burger, Fuddruckers uses never-frozen beef.
It does not get more custom than at The Counter Custom Burgers. Here, your burger is hand-built and made to order using only 11 ingredients.
From its inception in 1986, Five Guys has been grilling hand-formed burgers for its customers.
The recipe for Fatburger's success is the same today as it was when its founder Lovie Yancey established her very own business back in 1952.
This smaller burger chain is all about quality ingredients, and as they say themselves, "handmade burgers are our thing."
Culver's only uses fresh, never-frozen beef when grilling its signature Butter Burger, with each patty hand-pressed on-site after each order comes in.