Super Duper Burgers Fries Review: Are the Fries Super Duper Too?

With just 17 locations around the San Francisco Bay Area, Super Duper Burgers is a local burger chain well known in the region. They focus on "fast food with slow food values", positioning themselves between a fast-food chain and a sit-down restaurant. From the moment you step in, they let you know clearly that they use organic, fresh, high quality ingredients; from their beef to eggs to even soft-serve ice-cream. Given their pride in their burger (calling it "Super Burger"), are their natural cut fries also super duper? Here's our review of Super Duper Burgers' fries.

Super Duper Burgers feature wall. We love their attention to the highest quality ingredients.

Texture (5/10)

The innards of the sticks were not too bad, being warm and soft. However, the exterior was quite disappointing. Though there was some crisp, there was no crunch at all. Instead of being greeted with a nice large crunching sound, typical of natural cut fries with skin, the fry just collapses into mush where your tongue rolls over the small sheets of crisp. We think that the fries were either undercooked or fried in a temperature tad bit low. The facade looked great, but the texture just was not up to our expectations.

Natural cut fries with skin attached. Not too crispy though.

Flavor (3/10)

While the fries may be naturally cut, Super Duper did not think of adding the natural best friend of fries: salt. The fries are absolutely tasteless. Literally just fried potato mush. Without ketchup or the rich flavored and somewhat salty burger, we do not think that we could have finished the fries. You certainly do taste the freshness of the potato, so we know they use high quality ingredients. It's just that they didn't bother with anything else.

Shape (5/10)

Based on our various reviews, we see that that naturally cut fries tend to be thicker than regular fries. This is perhaps to compensate for the various lengths and the curvature of the potato. Thus it is commendable how Super Duper has managed to cut a round potato into standard looking fries. They are fairly uniform, and quite long, again indicating that they purposly pick larger potatoes. There was nothing special about the shape though and perhaps it was on the thinner side to support the large amount of ketchup we had to dip.

These are natural cut fries that look very much like standard fries.

Presentation (4/10)

The fries were served in a "boat" carton, just like In-N-Out fries and many others. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but also the fries were not placed thoughtfully. Rather, it looks like they just dumped a handful on a flat bed. And we are not sure whether this was intentional or not but the boat carton was too small and flimsy to hold many fries. As you can see in the picture above, it really looks as if the fries were just thrown on the main tray.

Experience (6/10)

Though the fries may not be the best on their own, they paired really well with the burgers. Super Duper burgers are a smashed patty variant with plenty of rich reasoning and salt. And since the fries were virtually tasteless, they complemented the rich flavor of the burger and also added a bit of varying texture of fried potatoes. At a price of $4.00, it's not obnoxiously expensive but also you don't get much.

Texture	5
Flavor	3
Shape	5
Presentation	4
Experience	6
Overall	4.6 / 10

Conclusion

Yes, just as the name suggest, the burgers are super duper. But unfortunately, the same cannot be said with the fries. With no flavor, subpar texture, and fries that don't exemplify the natural potatoes, you cannot expect much from these fries. We commend their attention to high quality and sustainable approach to ingredients, and thus feel justified paying their premium prices. We just hoped that the same attention given to their burgers were given to their fries.

The burger is near impeccable. Fresh smashed patties with tons of flavor. And the veggies are packed like a magazine shot.