Do you think you know what restaurant chain was recently named the worst in the United States?

Indiana has a lot of great restaurants that have been open for years. These restaurants have become staples in that area, and people must go whenever they are in town. They are restaurants that can even become bucket-list places to dine at. Whether it be comfort food, burgers, fried chicken, seafood, Italian, Mexican, steakhouses, or any other type of restaurant, there are certain places that stand out among the rest. Everyone has their trusted go-to restaurants where they like to dine.

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That being said, not all restaurant chains are created equal, right? Some are definitely better than others and there are quite a few that you downright avoid. So which restaurant chain is the worst in the United States? Well, that's sort of subjective. A few months back, the website Far & Wide recently ranked the worst chain restaurants in America. That ranking said that Golden Corral was the worst chain in the country.  However, there's a new study that found the worst chain restaurants in the United States, and this one has much different results.

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According to Eat This, Not That!,

The coupon and discount site CouponBirds recently published a new study that pinpointed the best and worst chain restaurants in the United States. The study only considered chains with four or more locations, analyzing Google reviews for more than 160,000 individual restaurants. CouponBirds then used a weighted average to grade each chain out of five, making sure its grading "was not biased towards entities with a high volume of reviews," the study methodology noted.

So, based on that information, let's find out what the worst chain restaurant in America is.

Worst Chain Restaurant in the U.S. Has 5 Indiana Locations

According to the study, Eat This, Not That! says that the worst chain restaurant in the country is Taco John's. The Mexican-inspired fast-food chain received a rating of 2.61 out of five, the lowest of any considered in the analysis. As you know, Taco John's is best known for its signature Potato Olés, which are the best part of the menu if you ask me. Taco John's currently operates more than 350 restaurants across the Midwest and Northwest.

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As far as Indiana goes, Taco John's has five locations in the Hoosier State. There are two locations in Evansville, and one location in Huntington, Michigan City, and Peru. So the question here is this...do you believe that Taco John's is the worst restaurant chain in America? The study also revealed other information including the best chain restaurant in the country. You can find out all about that by clicking here.

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