{"id":247838,"date":"2026-06-23T03:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/americas-top-11-fast-food-restaurants-in-2026-ranked-by-customer-satisfaction-chick-fil-a-dethroned-by-a-newcomer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:39:41","slug":"americas-top-11-fast-food-restaurants-in-2026-ranked-by-customer-satisfaction-chick-fil-a-dethroned-by-a-newcomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/americas-top-11-fast-food-restaurants-in-2026-ranked-by-customer-satisfaction-chick-fil-a-dethroned-by-a-newcomer\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Top 11 Fast Food Restaurants in 2026 Ranked by Customer Satisfaction: Chick-fil-A Dethroned by a Newcomer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2233998\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America has a new favorite fast food chain!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/theacsi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Customer Satisfaction Index<\/a>\u2018s new ranking for 2026 has been revealed and Chick-fil-A has been knocked from the top spot after leading the list for years. The study is based on more than 16,000 surveys that were completed between April 2025 and March 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chick-fil-A has been the leader for more than a decade, but it\u2019s still ranking in second place this year. It\u2019s also the top chicken chain of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re including 11 restaurants in the ranking due to a tie!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Browse through the slideshow to see America\u2019s favorite fast food restaurants of 2026\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/food\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/22\/americas-top-11-fast-food-restaurants-in-2026-ranked-by-customer-satisfaction-chick-fil-a-dethroned-by-a-newcomer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty America has a new favorite fast food chain! The American Customer Satisfaction Index\u2018s new ranking for 2026 has been revealed and Chick-fil-A has been knocked from the top spot after leading the list for years. The study is based on more than 16,000 surveys that were completed between April 2025 and March 2026. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}