--- title: These Are People's Favorite Fast Food Joints for Satisfying Late-Night Munchies description: White Castle, Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell top the rankings of fast food restaurants that do the largest share of their business at late night, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2016-10-07T15:52:59.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:49:24.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Brunch - burgers - Fast Food - Food & Drink - pubdesk - Taco Bell - White Castle word_count: 261 canonical: https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![161007_EM_LateNightMunchies](https://img.money.com/2016/10/harold-kumar-go-to-white-castle_a6638fe2.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C3690px%2C2075px&quality=85) *Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle* Some fast food establishments, it seems, are much better suited to late-night munchie runs than others. Using data from Foursquare, [QSR Magazine](https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/late-night-crowds-flock-quick-service-restaurants) reports that White Castle, celebrated as the destination for late-night visits by stoners in the "Harold & Kumar" movies, has the highest percentage of customers coming in for greasy snacks sometime after normal dinner hours and before breakfast. Overall, an estimated 21.5% of White Castle customer traffic visits occur between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. That's roughly double the percentage of McDonald's (11.1%) and Wendy's (10.5%), and triple that of Burger King (7.7%) and KFC (6.5%). Coming in second and third place in terms of doing the largest share of their business in the late-night witching hours are, unsurprisingly, two other fast food players that actively [market to the late-night crowd](http://business.time.com/2013/09/27/drinkers-stoners-insomniacs-wanted-fast-food-expands-late-night-menus/). Jack in the Box, which introduced Munchie Meals a few years ago and recently launched "Brunchfast" items that seem perfect for the late-night hours, ranks #2, with 17% of all visits coming between 10 p.m. and 4 p.m. Taco Bell, of ["Fourthmeal" fame (infamy?)](http://business.time.com/2012/08/08/fast-food-chains-want-you-to-eat-more-than-the-usual-breakfast-lunch-and-dinner/), is next in the rankings, with just under 15% of customers hitting the drive-thru or easing up to the counter during the late-night hours. ***Read Next:* These Fast Food Chains Have the Fastest, Most Accurate & Most Polite Drive-Thrus** Considering that people tend to not make their best decisions during the hours of 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. (see: late-night drunk online shopping), we're not so sure the rankings above are anything that White Castle, Jack in the Box, or Taco Bell should brag about. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Restaurants", "item": "https://money.com/restaurants/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "These Are People's Favorite Fast Food Joints for Satisfying Late-Night Munchies" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/", "name": "These Are People's Favorite Fast Food Joints for Satisfying Late-Night Munchies", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-10-07T15:52:59.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:49:24.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "These Are People's Favorite Fast Food Joints for Satisfying Late-Night Munchies", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/10/harold-kumar-go-to-white-castle_a6638fe2.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C3690px%2C2075px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "161007_EM_LateNightMunchies" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-10-07T15:52:59.000Z", "description": "White Castle, Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell top the rankings of fast food restaurants that do the largest share of their business at late night, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.", "abstract": "White Castle, Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell top the rankings of fast food restaurants that do the largest share of their business at late night, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.", "@id": "https://money.com/late-night-munchies-fast-food-white-castle-taco-bell/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:49:24.000Z", "wordCount": 261, "keywords": [ "Brunch", "burgers", "Fast Food", "Food & Drink", "pubdesk", "Taco Bell", "White Castle" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restaurant", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant" ] } ] } ] } ```