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r/fastfood

308.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.8K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
308.6Kmembers
1.8Kbest post
393most comments
302posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 25% 22% 14%
Image 39% Text 25% Question 22% Link 14%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 61 News 51 Review 47 Rant/Rave 39 McDonald’s 15 Deal Alert! 13 Burger King 12 Comparison 10 Menu Hack 9 Throwback 8

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Takeout from my local ghetto Chinese restaurant.

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 224 image 2026

Some People Say Panda Express Isn’t β€˜Authentic’ Chinese Food. The CEO Says He β€˜Takes No Offense’ to That

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 393 link 2026

Wendy’s bringing back the T Rex Burger as an eating challenge

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 333 image 2026

Got a Big Mac with quarter pounder patties

↑ 997 πŸ’¬ 185 image 2026

$8 Combo at Wienerschnitzel - 2 chili cheese dogs, 2 corn dogs, and chili cheese fries.

↑ 733 πŸ’¬ 129 image 2026

The Big Mac in the US ranges from $2.99 (in California) to $8.49 (in Connecticut)

↑ 676 πŸ’¬ 137 image 2026

I love Arby's curly fries.

↑ 644 πŸ’¬ 99 image 2026

Sometimes you just want to eat 4 Skyline Cheese Coneys hunched over the steering wheel like an animal.

↑ 638 πŸ’¬ 75 image 2026

Should McDonalds pay their interns?

↑ 586 πŸ’¬ 58 image 2026

McDonalds doesn’t like that less people are buying from them. Their lobby looks like a crypt. β€œDeals” suck. Customer service gone. Their answer? Coll…

↑ 490 πŸ’¬ 123 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/fastfood, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/fastfood have?
r/fastfood has about 308.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 302 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.8K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/fastfood?
"Takeout from my local ghetto Chinese restaurant." reached 1.8K upvotes and 224 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/fastfood.
What subreddits are similar to r/fastfood?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana, r/popculture.
What kind of posts do best on r/fastfood?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/fastfood?
Across 302 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (470 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (422 avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (293 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/fastfood?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/fastfood has 316 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/fastfood, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.