Cook Out burger and milkshake restaurant review

The shockingly low prices make Cook Out a destination unto itself, and the quality of the food is solid.Hollis Johnson

• Cook Out is the fast-food king of North Carolina. 
• The chain only has locations in 10 states but has developed a cult following in the South. 
• We visited a Richmond, Virginia, location and saw why customers adore Cook Out. 

New Yorkers love Shake Shack. The West Coast swears by In-N-Out.

But North Carolinians say that there’s one burger chain that trumps them all.

Cook Out is a North Carolina-based fast-food chain serving up burgers, barbecue, and milkshakes, and it’s renowned in the South for its low prices and high quality.

But if you don’t live in one of the 10 states the chain is in, you might have never heard of this cult restaurant and its fervent following.

So we went to Richmond, Virginia, to sample the much-hyped chain and see how it measured up to the coastal titans of the burger business.