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The food court at Crabtree Valley Mall just got a burger upgrade, swapping one enormously famous french fry for another.
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The Triangle’s newest Five Guys Burgers & Fries is now open in Crabtree. The new burger stand opened Thursday afternoon, July 23, but fittingly its first full day will be Friday. (Get it? Fry-Day?)
McDonald’s closed earlier this year as part of the multi-million dollar redevelopment of Crabtree Valley, which has seen several major mall additions.
Five Guys helped launch the flattop griddled burger craze and has grown into one of the country’s largest burger brands. There are now a dozen locations in the Triangle and nearly 50 statewide.
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Five Guys is perhaps most famous for its fries, which are hand-cut, fried in peanut oil and served in heaping scoops in paper bags.
The Crabtree Five Guys is notable for opening early at 9:30 a.m. and serving a menu of breakfast sandwiches. Five Guys has been serving breakfast since 2019, according to the online food side The Takeout, but locations are rare.
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