40 fast food restaurants you wish would open in the Charlotte area.

After a recent filing pointed to plans for a potential Charlotte location of fast-food chain Whataburger, we had fast food on our minds. And specifically, we wanted to talk about other cities’ fast food.

Charlotte has all the nationwide staples and then some, of course. But some of y’all have nostalgia for fast food spots from hometowns or cross-country travel adventures. So we asked which fast food places you wish would open in the Queen City.

We got hundreds of responses, and while some of them may be arguably fast casual at least, we figured we’d include them on the list as well. Is your favorite missing? Send us an email to charlottefive@charlottefive.com and we’ll add them to the list!

[READ NEXT: Godfather’s Pizza returns to Charlotte — and there’s a line.]

Meantime, here are 40 places you told us you wish would open in Charlotte:

• Arthur Treacher’s (fun fact: it used to have a Charlotte presence)

• Bahama Breeze
• Bibibop
• Braums
• Buddy’s BBQ
• Char-Grill
  
  
• Checkers/Rally’s
• Del Taco
• Eggslut
• El Parasol
• El Pollo Loco
• Fazoli’s
• Giordano’s
• Gus’s Fried Chicken
• In-N-Out Burger
• Jollibee
• Krystal
• Nando’s
• Pappasito’s Cantina
• Plant Power
• Pollo Tropical
• Portillo’s
• Raising Cane’s
• Rubio’s
• Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q
• Rush’s
• Skyline Chili
• Snoopy’s
• Sweet Tomatoes
• Sweetgreen
• Taco Cabana
• Taco John’s
• Ted’s Hot Dogs
• The Varsity
• Tim Horton’s
• Wahoo’s
• WAWA (hint: it’s coming!)
• Wahlburgers
• Whataburger (more info)
• White Castle

Fun surprise — these are already here!

Some of the restaurants you told us you wish were here are actually already in Charlotte or the surrounding areas. Here are 9 of them:

Biscuitville

Location: 3060 Derita Rd, Charlotte, NC 28262

Location: 13703 A Highway, 74 E Independence Blvd, Indian Trail, NC 28079

BurgerFi (temporarily closed)

Location: 8374 Charlotte Hwy Indian Land, SC 29707

Culvers

Location: 7031 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28262

Location: 5122 Old Charlotte Hwy., Indian Trail, NC 28079

Location: 3521 Foothills Way, Fort Mill, SC 29708

Dairi-O

Location: 920 River Hwy, Mooresville, NC 28117

Godfather’s Pizza (it just opened!)

Location: 3020 Prosperity Church Rd F, Charlotte, NC 28269

Hardees

Location: 8428 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28213

Location: 4201 E W.T. Harris Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28215

Location: 5024 Sunset Rd, Charlotte, NC 28269

Location: 875 Gold Hill Rd, Fort Mill, SC 29708

Hwy 55

Location: 4859 Old York Rd #104, Rock Hill, SC 29732

PDQ

Location: 8665 Concord Mills Boulevard, Concord, NC 28027

Location: 18341 Statesville Rd, Cornelius, NC 28031

Scholtzsky’s

Location: 3735 East Franklin Blvd., Gastonia, NC 28056

Finally, one runner up for the road

There’s one more: “Although you asked for fast food suggestions, I would like to see a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen in the Charlotte market,” Ronnie Bryant wrote to CharlotteFive. “Being a Louisiana native, I would welcome it with open arms.”

After checking out the menu, Ronnie — yum, we agree!