The Best Menu Hacks And Secret Menu Items At All The Big Fast Food Chains

Fast food can often be delicious, especially if you’ve figured out at all your favorite restaurants. But eating the same food over and over again can get dull fast. If you’re biting into a and it’s not firing off all the pleasure centers in your brain, it’s probably because your tastebuds aren’t being surprised at all.

You have two routes here: We know it is hard to stray from the favorites but sometimes ordering something unexpected is all you need to excite the palate and get the most bang for your buck. And when you’re looking for something different there is no better place to look than a secret menu. And most fast food restaurants have a secret menu or, at the very least, some food you can remix and hack into something new.

To help guide you to these hidden gems, we’ve put together a list of the secret menu fast food items from all the big chains. For the most part, these will be foods that you can order hassle free, though a few will unfortunately require some self assembly. Let’s dive in. Burger King — Rodeo Burger Unfortunately, because Burger King routinely brings back the Rodeo Burger as a limited time option, you can’t just ask for a Rodeo Burger off season.

Instead what you’ll need to do is order a Double Whopper and add BBQ sauce, bacon, and onion rings. They will be able to add all of these ingredients themselves, so you won’t get any pushback if you try and order this. This burger is crunchy, smokey, sweet, and decadent. You can’t go wrong. Burger King — Frings I’m still scratching my head over why this isn’t something BK advertises.

Frings are an ingenious idea, you get an equal share of french fries and onion rings — what’s not to love here? Order Frings and your favorite sandwich of choice, put the frings inside the sandwich, and experience the absolute best of Burger King. BK isn’t doing so hot, the restaurant is closing stores nationwide — I kind of think it’s because they keep orders like the Rodeo Burger and Frings a secret.

You get the best of both worlds here, and it’s something you can ask for by name. Chick fil A — Fried Chicken Club Sandwich/Bacon on Everything If you can’t tell already, it truly baffles me why these fast food chains keep some of their best food a secret. If you’re a casual Chick fil A eater you may not know that you can put bacon on everything here, and bacon is the best way to elevate a chicken sandwich.

Ask for the Chicken Club, and you should receive a grilled chicken patty with bacon, lettuce, tomato, and cheese on a multigrain brioche bun — but here is the trick, ask for a fried patty (spicy or regular) instead and you’ve got yourself quite possibly the best sandwich on the entire menu. The multigrain bun adds some nice sweetness to counterbalance the smokey flavor of the bacon and the chicken and pairs nicely with the juicy tomatoes and green leaf lettuce.

If you’re not feeling that build, feel free to order your usual favorite sandwich and just ask to add bacon. Everything tastes better with bacon Chick fil A — Spicy Char This one is a bit of a toss up as some Chick fil A’s will know what you’re talking about, and some won’t. The Spicy Char swaps Chick fil A’s charbroiled chicken patty (which is delicious by the way) for a spicy version of the same patty, tossed in the same spices as the fried version, without the breading.

The results are delicious, it’s juicy with a lemon undertone and a sharp cayenne kick at the backend. Chick fil A’s most delicious secret. If you’re in the mood for a grilled chicken sandwich that doesn’t sacrifice flavor for better caloric stats, order this. Chipotle — Nachos This one is going to require self assembly, but we guarantee you it’s worth it! Here is what you do: order a burrito bowl with any meat or beans of your choosing (we recommend barbacoa and pinto) with grilled fajitas, salsa of your choice, corn, cheese, and guacamole, and ask for all your ingredients on the side.

Then order a side of chips, pour them into the bowl, and build this delicious dish. If enough of us order these nachos and post them on TikTok, maybe it’ll get an official release. Chipotle did it with the fajita quesadilla so anything is possible! We know Chipotle is keeping this one close to the chest in case sales ever drop.

Five Guys — The Patty Melt This is Five Guys’ best tasting secret and, in our opinion, is even superior to the regular burger. Simply order a grilled cheese and add as many patties and other ingredients you’d like. Five Guys doesn’t use special buns for this sandwich instead it inverts its regular hamburger buns and grills them with butter, giving the bread a crunchy savory exterior.

To capture that classic diner patty melt vibe, be sure and add grilled mushrooms and grilled onions. Better than Five Guys’ stock cheeseburger. In N Out — Animal Style Burger with Chopped Chiles In N Out posts its secret menu online, which is great, but what they don’t tell you is that you can add chopped chiles to any burger.

This build is a favorite of burger master Alvin Cailan, it features mustard grilled patties, a double dose of cheese, extra special sauce, tomatoes, grilled onions, lettuce, pickles, and chopped chiles. The chiles provide a nice subtle heat that builds on the aftertaste and adds a lot of complexity to this already flavor packed burger.

The easiest way to elevate your In N Out experience. In N Out — Animal Style Fries For whatever reason In N Out also doesn’t advertise these fries on its official secret menu website, but they’re a staple amongst In N Out regulars, so expect to order this hassle free. The Animal Style Fries include a bed of fries topped with special sauce, melted American cheese, and grilled onions.

If you’re wondering, yes, you can add chopped chilies to this as well and it makes each forkful significantly better. If you still think In N Out fries are the worst, give these and try and come back to us. In N Out — Tomato Wrap I’m not going to list In N Out’s entire secret menu because some of the dishes just aren’t worth ordering (looking at you grilled cheese), but one that doesn’t get enough mention is the Tomato Wrap.

This burger is superior to the lettuce wrap because it doesn’t fall apart as you’re eating it and instead of flavorless iceberg lettuce you get layers of umami rich tomato. Savory, satisfying, and completely keto friendly. In N Out — Neapolitan Shake/Rootbeer Float I’m going to go ahead and combine these because I think they are equally good.

If you can’t decide between a chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry shake, just order a Neapolitan Shake to experience all three flavors combined. To get a Rootbeer Float, simply ask for one (it’s not on the menu) and the employees will expertly mix rootbeer with any shake flavor of your choice. Both options are improvements over the stock milkshakes.

McDonald’s — The Egg McMuffin Hack From We were introduced to this hack late last year by the David Fincher movie . It’s an Egg McMuffin without the bread. In the movie, Michael Fassbender scarfs down a ham version of this sandwich, which in our opinion isn’t as good as opting for sausage instead.

To order ask for a Sausage, Egg, and Cheese McMuffin with an extra patty and toss the bread to nearby birds. I like this hack and it fits into the keto lifestyle, but I’m going to be real with you, the original with the bun tastes better. A keto friendly version of one of McDonald’s greatest sandwiches.

McDonald’s — Hashbrown McMuffin Order a McMuffin and a hashbrown, open up the sandwich, and slide that hashbrown in. Yes it’s a bummer they won’t do this for you but it’s so low effort and so delicious that the self assembly is worth it. The hashbrown adds more crunch and salt to the sandwich and makes it a way more satisfying experience.

A hack so good and so low effort that McDonald’s should just include it on the menu. Until then, you’ll have to build it yourself. McDonald’s — The Land, Sea, and Air Burger I didn’t really want to include this one but what’s a secret menu fast food list without this legendary sandwich? Two years ago McDonald’s let you order this sandwich by name but still required you to self assemble it.

It wasn’t worth the effort (we covered it ) The sandwich combines a Big Mac with a fried Filet O Fish and a McChicken into one giant ball of ultra processed protein. It is disturbing, overwhelming, and as close to State Fair food as McDonald’s will ever get. A disturbing mix of McDonald’s proteins.

Order it for the story, not the flavor. Raising Cane’s — Sandwich on Texas Toast Ask for your Raising Cane’s sandwich to be served on Texas toast rather than the Kaiser roll that comes with the stock sandwich, and boom, you’ve instantly got a significantly better chicken sandwich. Yes, it’s still going to fall all over the place and be a struggle to keep intact (what else would you expect from a sandwich that includes three chicken tenders) but each bite will begin with a garlic butter blast of flavor before you reach that tender juicy chicken.

Raising Cane’s should ditch the roll completely and just serve its sandwiches on this delicious Texas Toast. Once you try it, you’ll never eat the Kaiser roll again. Raising Cane’s — BOBS Ask for BOBS and you’ll receive Raising Cane’s delicious Texas Toast grilled and buttered on both sides, rather than just one side.

BOBS stands for, if you haven’t caught on already, “buttered on both sides,’ and is an instant way to turn an already delicious side into something out of this world. If you love Raising Cane’s Texas Toast, you need to try the BOBS. Taco Bell — Quesarito Taco Bell keeps putting this legendary dish back on the menu only to take it off.

You don’t have to deal with Taco Bell’s nonsense though, because you can still order a Quesarito, it just takes some hacking. Ordering a Beefy 5 Layer Burrito, substitute the beans for rice, and add chipotle sauce, then get it grilled, and bam! You’ve got yourself a Quesarito. Taco Bell loves to take fan favorites off the menu, this is the easiest one to recreate.

Wendy’s — The Meat Cube Wendy’s offers single, double, and triple cheeseburgers but nothing is stopping you from adding as many additional patties to the burger as you’d like. Once you get to four, you’re eating what the Wendy’s secret menu community affectionally refers to as the “Meat Cube.” “Meat Cube” doesn’t sound appetizing to me, but hey, it’s a pretty apt name for a bomb of beef.

If you’ve got a craving for beef, no other burger is going to satisfy like the Meat Cube. Wendy’s — The Barnyard Burger Just as you can add as many patties to a burger as you desire, you can do the same with chicken patties, which brings us to the Barnyard Burger. Order a Dave’s single and add a fried chicken filet and bacon and you have a whole barn’s worth of flavor.

It’s beefy, crunchy, spicy (assuming you get the spicy chicken filet), and smokey. A real showcase for how good Wendy’s is at everything they make. One of Wendy’s wildest burgers and everything McDonald’s Land, Sea, and Air Burger wishes it could be..