Five Guys Burgers and Fries will open the first of three planned Tucson restaurants on Tuesday.
The new Five Guys is in a former video-rental store at Campbell Plaza, on the northeast corner of North Campbell Avenue and East Glenn Street.
Store employees will spend the weekend training, learning to work the register, man the grill, cut the fries and dress the burgers, said Doug Vaughan, one of the two partners in D&J Holdings LLC, the Kansas corporation that holds the franchise rights for Five Guys in most of Southern Arizona.
Vaughan said the restaurant isn’t planning any promotions for its first week.
“We’re just going to unlock the doors,” he said. “We’re going to turn on the lights and fire up the signage and see what happens.”
Five Guys bills itself as a “fast-casual” restaurant, with no drive-through and a business model that calls for customers to get their food within seven minutes of ordering.
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There are no freezers at Five Guys. Potatoes are cut fresh daily, and buns are made to company specifications by contract bakeries at several locations throughout the country.
A recent Zagat survey of fast food ranked the Five Guys burger No. 1 and its french fries No. 2.