Breaking Down Five Guys Burgers And Fries By The Numbers

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• Five Guys uses between 80 and 90 of these 20-pound cases of ground beef per week. That's approximately 1,700 pounds of ground beef.
• About 70 of these racks of bread go through the McPherson Square location each week. Each rack carries nine bags of buns.
• An average of 10 cases of cheese per week = 200 pounds.
• Five Guys goes through 251 heads of lettuce a week.
• They use somewhere between 15 and 20 of these 20-pound cases each week, an average of 350 pounds of tomatoes.
• Five Guys uses 262 pounds of bacon a week.
• These tubs hold 50 pounds of onion, and Five Guys goes through one each day — a total of 350 pounds per week.
• They use 140 pounds of sliced baby portobello mushrooms each week.
• Forty of these gallon-size bottles each week is a lot of pickles.
• By contrast, Five Guys only uses one of these one-gallon bottles of relish each week.
• Five Guys McPherson Square uses 78 gallons of ketchup a week.
• Five Guys goes through one or two of these gallon-size bottles a week.
• Five Guys goes through one or two of these gallon-size bottles a week.
• Five Guys goes through one or two of these gallon-size bottles a week.
• Five Guys uses 17 of these 35-pound jugs of peanut oil each week, totaling 595 pounds of peanut oil.
• At the McPherson Square location, they go through about 15 of these 50-pound bags of potatoes a day. That means 5,250 pounds of potatoes each week.
• For their Cajun fries, Five Guys uses about five pounds of Cajun seasoning (five bottles) each week.
• Finally, this location uses about 10 of these 25-pound boxes of peanuts each week, for a total of 250 pounds.

If you were ever curious just how much peanut oil Five Guys uses for its signature fries, we can now officially tell you—it's a lot. Eater visited the McPherson Square location of the popular local chain, where franchise owner Charley Beresford and District Manager Chris Cutting broke down Five Guys by the numbers for us. We picked the McPherson Square location specifically because it pulls average numbers for the DC-area stores. The following figures can and do vary depending on location. And we've explained our math in the photo captions so you can see just how many cases equal 350 pounds of tomatoes.

Ground beef: 1,700 pounds
Bread: 2,520 buns
Cheese: 200 pounds
Lettuce: 251 heads
Tomatoes: 350 pounds
Bacon: 262 pounds
Onions: 350 pounds
Mushrooms: 140 pounds
Pickles: 40 gallons
Relish: 1 gallon
Ketchup: 78 gallons
A1: 1.5 gallons
BBQ sauce: 1.5 gallons
Hot sauce: 1.5 gallons
Peanut oil: 595 pounds
Potatoes: 5,250 pounds
Cajun seasoning: 5 pounds
Peanuts: 250 pounds