Lacey B.
Yelp
This Rockville location should be ashamed to themselves! It's HORRIBLE when compared to the Kensington Five Guys just a few minutes away! It's not as if I'm basing this review on just 1 experience at the Rockville location. This was actually my 2nd and LAST time ever eating at the Rockville location (I actually did UberEats this time & ordered from the Rockville one by mistake instead of Kensington). Trust me, if you go to the Rockville location, I urge you to try the Kensington location next time. I can guarantee that you will NEVER GO BACK to Rockville again!
I LOVE Five Guys. I always get the Bacon Cheeseburger. At Rockville, you literally get 3 or 4 half or quarter size pieces of rubbery, uncooked bacon. At Kensington, you get a mountain of perfectly cooked, completely crunchy bacon. It's so much bacon that your burger is visually higher & it is always this much, every time!! Then to the fries. Everyone knows Five Guys has great fries. So it all comes down to how they are prepared. I mean really, there shouldn't even be a difference in fries from one location to the next. However, in Rockville, the fries are dry & disgusting! This time, they didn't even bother to salt them when they came out of the fryer! There wasn't 1 spec of salt on them! I'm sorry but fries need salt upon coming out of the fryer! In Kensington, their fries are ridiculously good! Cooked perfectly & great consistency (& yes, they have never failed to salt them)! Lastly, I always get a salted caramel, bacon shake. Well, tonight I ordered it from Rockville & got a watery, foamy "shake" (plus they didn't even put the whipped cream on it)! The only way to screw up a shake & to make it foamy is by not putting enough ice cream in it! Well that's exactly how Rockville prepares their watery shakes! Needless to say, since they can't cook bacon properly in Rockville as noted above, there was no crispy bacon pieces in my shake like I'm used to. No bacon flavor at all! By contrast, Kensington consistently makes the most perfectly thick shakes. And of course, there is tons of crispy bacon pieces in my thick shake, unlike in Rockville where there's no trace of bacon & what is in there is uncooked, rubbery strands! Disgusting.
So again, the point of this review is to bring attention to the fact that 2 different Five Guys locations, only 3.5 miles away from each other, produce vastly different results! Rockville should TAKE NOTICE of the fact that they are ruining the Five Guys brand & they are ripping off their customers! The Kensington location operates at such a higher standard & gives their customer's their monies worth while Rockville is the bottom of the barrel! If you usually go to the Rockville location simply because it's convenient for you, i'm sure you wouldn't even know that Five Guys is supposed to be WAY BETTER than what you've been experiencing! All I can say is that whoever owns & operates the Rockville location should take a short drive over to Kensington to see what Five Guys is supposed to be like! And to whoever owns & operates the Kensington location, I have got to say WAY TO GO, thank you for actually caring about quality & your customers & keep up the good work!! P.S. Yelp makes you chose a star level so I had to choose 1 star but it should be ZERO STARS & a HUGE THUMBS DOWN for the Rockville Five Guys!!!