Not McDonald's Or Burger King: This Small Southern Chain Sells The Best Fast Food Breakfast
While McDonald's may be serving up its iconic McMuffin every morning across the globe, and the Crossain'wich is top-tier among the Burger King breakfast items we've ranked, neither international chain holds a candle to a small Southern family-owned brand. Biscuitville, which has 89 locations across just three states as of this writing — the Carolinas and Virginia — recently took the top spot for Best Fast Food Breakfast in USA Today's 2026 Readers' Choice Awards. Even more impressive is that it's held this title for four years straight since 2023.
The story of Biscuitville started in the 1960s, when founder Maurice Jennings inherited the family biscuit recipe from his grandmother. By 1975, he established the first Biscuitville location in Danville, Virginia, building its menu around that very recipe. Thanks to a commitment to baking them every 15 minutes so diners are guaranteed fresh, hot biscuits, and innovations like the "biscuit window," where customers can watch employees make biscuits from scratch, the chain grew to be a favorite breakfast stop.
That dedication to freshness is why Biscuitville is one of the fast food chains with the highest-quality breakfast sandwiches, but it also comes with a slight jump in cost. A Sausage & Cheese Biscuit will set you back around $4.10 depending on your location; for comparison, a Sausage McMuffin costs close to $3.90. Most Biscuitville fans would probably argue that the quality is well worth spending an extra 20 cents, though.
What people are saying about Biscuitville's fast food breakfasts
A ton of Biscuitville's positive reviews online rave about how it serves the best biscuits you can get from a fast-food chain, with some fans saying they're absolutely top-tier. Multiple Reddit users say Biscuitville's biscuits are better than Bojangles', which is high praise considering Bojangles took the top spot in Mashed's chain restaurant biscuits and gravy rankings. On TripAdvisor, one reviewer enjoyed how fluffy they were, with a bit of a griddled texture for contrast.
The chain's homestyle breakfast vibe made another TripAdvisor reviewer give one of its Danville locations a 5-star score, with yet another reviewer saying they enjoyed their meals at a Greensboro location so much that they ate there both days they were in town. A Reddit user compared the biscuits to their great-grandma's, which speaks volumes about their homemade charm.
If one thing knocks Biscuitville down a bit, it's that it's almost exclusively a breakfast spot; this is one reason we didn't place it higher in our rankings of Southern restaurant chains. All Biscuitville locations close at 2 p.m. to allow employees a better work-life balance, so don't plan a biscuit sandwich as a late lunch; your window for having them after the morning is fairly small. It's why some fans feel like it's Biscuitville for breakfast, and Bojangles for the other meals. That said, if you ever find yourself in Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina, it's definitely worth checking out Biscuitville at the start of your day.