I know many of you feel we already have too many burger places in Kuwait but I have to obviously disagree with that. I think we still have room for a couple of more burger joints and the couple being Five Guys and In-N-Out. From what I was told by one of my readers, it looks like Five Guys is coming to Kuwait.
According to the reader him and his partner were trying to strike a deal with Five Guys and after getting all the paperwork, doing a feasibility study and agreeing on all the terms, they contacted Five Guys again only to be told that they had given the franchise rights to someone else in Kuwait. The rumor is Al Homaizi got the franchise rights and I’ve already sent an email to my contact there hoping to get a confirmation on this but I still haven’t received a reply yet.
What does that mean? It means all we need now is In-N-Out and we will officially be the burger capital of the world.
Thanks Fahad
60 replies on “Five Guys coming to Kuwait”
eeuurgh! too moist and greasy for my taste! I’ll just sit right here and wait for your “in-n-out comes to Kuwait” post 😛 hopefuly it’ll open up far from any triathlon I’ll ever compete at haha
is that the Joint you posted about went you were in NY and said that it is much better than Shake Shak?
yup thats the one 🙂
Seriously! Too many Burger places already! lol
I like 5 guys. I like their grilled chicken burger. Thing is, even in the US they were always more expensive than other places. But I think in Kuwait it won’t be.
Should be cool.
They don’t serve chicken in their restaurant :S
LOL
Finally, FIVE GUYS!
I’m going back to school to get qualified to perform liposuctions! Here are potential locations for my future clinic:
– Outide shake shack
– In the Jabriya “fro-yo triangle”
– Express location at the airport check-in counter
lol
why on earth did those guy make a feasibility study before checking if the franchise rights were awarded to someone else?
it wasn’t taken, it got taken
Did Homaizi do their feasibility study? I’m guessing they didn’t
In-N-Out FTW !
One of the worst tasting burger in the history of burger!
5 guys is not that good, shake shack is way better!
whatever, 5 guys is the best, just jump off the shake shack bandwagon and try it. the power of advertising and hype have made shake shack something it is not. all the sheep standing in line just to get an average burger and average shake.
I have tried 5 guys before, that’s how I know their quality is not as good as shake shack
Shake Shack is the greasiest thing on earth. Halfway through my burger, my bun was literally yellow with oil. And the cheese on their cheese fries is disgusting.
Enough is enough! Always burgers! burgers! burgers! Kuwait will defiantly be number one in the world for obesity and gluttony.
burgers don’t make you fat
No … Bugers give you a six pack a lot faster than steriods -_-
You can eat burgers and still have a six pack and you just need to take a look at Michael Phelps as an example. Do you guys not know what causes you to gain weight? I eat a lot of burgers and I’m not fat.
michael phelps’ diet is 12000 calories a day and he’s really fit and he has a six pack. eating lots of burgers and exercising after it may give you a six pack faster than steroids because you are turning your fat into muscle.
12000 calories a day? Seriously?
Ossama
i think you meant 1,200 calories a day, which for an athlete who is very active is extremely low, by the way, so i doubt that he does thatc cuz otherwise, he’ll end up losing weight.
Also, medically, fat does not turn into muscle.
Who told you that it does?? It just doesn’t happen..!
No he’s right, it’s 12,000 a day
I’m not against burger joints. They good to eat on weekends. Problem lies in health awareness and the kind of lifestyle thats promoting too many burger joints in a country. People just tend to get tempted too much and eat more burgers! That’s not to say its the burger joint’s fault but they are part of the temptation. Too many burger joints coming to Kuwait shows there is high demand for it. And if such a small country has such high demand for burger, people are of course eating more burger than they should be. Point is, eating too many burgers, whether u r fat or not is never good. It’s really the problem with people’s lifestyle and food habits in Kuwait and not people who get this joints. They get it coz its profitable and people want it! Why won’t they open?
There is going to be more burger joints including In-N-Out ^^
Kuwait is ranked #1 in that department.
JourneyKitchen I have to agree, if people get tempted and eat when they shouldn’t then it’s there fault. I wouldn’t want less burger places in Kuwait just because people can’t handle their temptations.
my baqala under my office has the most amazing collection of chocolates compared to any baqala in Kuwait. He also has a standing freezer full of KDD goodies all arranged very nicely. Every day I go down to my baqala at least once to buy water and everyday and every single time I there i am tempted to pick up a green hazelnut kitkat chunky or a KDD silver or even a wafer or whatever other random chocolate which I haven’t had for ages. That’s a lot of temptation I have to deal with everyday but I don’t blame the baqala for having such a wide range of chocolate on display and I don’t blame the chocolate companies for coming out with good tasting candy.
Fat Burger is opening soon next to my office and I’m going to find a way to have it once a week. I’m already having elevation once a week and shake shack as well so thats 3 burgers a week. One way I’m countering my burger fetish is riding my bike to and from the gym and that’s helping me burn an extra 700-800 calories which is great.
That’s what everyone needs to do. Eat whatever they want and then burn it off.
does he have those bubble gums ?
If you mean Fusen yes he does
Mark I like to the idea of riding my bike to the gym, that’s brilliant! I will start doing it, i just need to get a bike first 🙂
More than more burger joints opening I am alarmed at how much people here try their hardest to ape the U.S…like they’re the epitome of civilization. There are possibly thousands of amazing restaurants that can open here (Gullivers for example) but Kuwait is obsessed with the word USA. Potbellys, a terribly overrated and bland sandwich shop that has the word CHICAGO plastered all over will be given a red carpet welcome. Being someone who has lived in Chicago for 3 years, Potbelly’s is trash. Even Chicagoans hate Potbellys. If you want a real Chicago restaurant, get Lou Malnatis or Ginos.
And if you blame burger joints for making you fat, you’re stupid. Plain and simple. It’s like someone is forcibly shoving the burgers and fries down your throat and you can’t do anything about it. Quit eating fast food and excessive candy, buy some fruits and fresh vegetables and take responsibility of what you eat and exercise everyday. Weight loss is no magic. It’s discipline.
Five guys is awesome because everything is made with quality. I really hope it’s the same. If they do what they did to shake shack again it would be totally awful.
Mark, you gotta open a Burger section or blog 😀
Sorry to burst your bubble but INNOUT will never open up in Kuwait under the ownership of the family. I worked for the company for 5 years & the reason they don’t have any stores on the East Coast or even in the Mid-West is because they keep their commitment to quality so seriously about not freezing food. They will establish stores as far as they can deliver fresh food without spoiling & absolutely no freezing. So if you do happen to come to the states where there is an INNOUT, count yourself lucky. If INNOUT started freezing their food they will cease being INNOUT & their reputation for fresh quality will be gone
It’s now under the ownership of the children who seem to be interested in expanding.
I would assume they would expand to the US east coast before they jump all the way here to uncharted territories, with the most fickle audience on Earth
That said, I admit I love Five Guys burgers
The children are really interested in franchise opportunities. I hope it opens in kuwait. THEY HAVE THE BEST BURGERS ! NOT SHAKE SHACK OR EVEN FIVE GUYS !
Over hyped, over rated trash. Sadly people in Kuwait act like cattle, they move with the crowd amd anything saying USA gets them going disregarding their health and mostly their taste buds.
Thanks for participating!
The elitist queue is that way.
Five guys is really overrated in my opinion. Never understood the hype !!
”HALAL” … It’s seems that no one care about ,, do any one know the meaning of that word !!? Am talking to the muslim of coarse ..
Is There fast food restaurents here in kuwait who serve non-Halal meat ???
YYYEEESSSSSSS
Isnt it clear kuwaities r turning into fat and fast-food addict Americans .. Ahh everything is a burger now like my dad says : الدنيا. صارت همبرجر
Taking over Kuwait one fast food restaurant at TIME!
how can people trust, put-up , or even digest these american burgers, i have no idea. it’s so gross (making, looking & tasting)
Love 5 guys …. The more the merrier
NO,
We need Fill-o-Chick, their burger has less calorie than subway sandwiches!
Five Guys Bacon Cheeseburger Meal
Jumbo-sized meals promote “caloric extremism,” according to a CSPI news release. One meaty example is the Bacon Cheeseburger Meal from Five Guys. The burger alone has 30 grams of saturated fat and 920 calories — the equivalent of two Quarter Pounders from rival burger chain McDonald’s. A large order of fries adds 1,460 calories.
By the Numbers: 2,380 cal – more than the 2,000–calorie daily limit for most adults.
In-N-Out will not be getting to Kuwait for several reasons. One being the fact that they don’t even have stores world-wide, just in California so whats the probability of it picking a small country when it could go to these big countries (like UK). Another reason is because they only have a few farms so they really can’t make it work to go to a lot of places since they might lose resources or maybe their animals just can’t handle it.
Trust me, I want In-N-Out more than anything in the world. But it just aint’ happenin.
You’re forgetting Shake Shack picked Kuwait when they only had like 2 stores in New York…
In-N-Out is open in 5 states not only California. They have 258 locations so why not kuwait ?
like Mark said Shake Shack only had 2 stores in NY and it opened in kuwait, so why not In-N-Out
Five Guys isn’t all that great. They do give you extra fries with every meal but In-N-Out beats it any given day.
In-N-Out will not be coming to Kuwait at all since it doesnt have any other branch outside of the States…but there’s nothing impossible with Kuwait so we’ll see and look forward to that 🙂
i just heard its Al Sayer with FG……opening in September!
I want to work here, I looked into the Al Sayer website, it did not say anything about Five Guys.