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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 29 fast food restaurants

Best fast food restaurants in Shanghai

The 10 most notable fast food restaurants in Shanghai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Shanghai Fashion Center

    2866 Yangshupu Rd 杨树浦路2866号

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.858, percentile 100 of 29

  2. 2

    White Castle Shanghai

    上海市静安区茂名北路211号

    280 m from West Nanjing Road station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.518, percentile 96.43 of 29

  3. 3

    Old Shanghai City God Temple Global Food Court (上海老城皇庙小吃广场)

    福佑路238号豫园内

    498 m from Yuyuan Garden station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.294, percentile 92.86 of 29

  4. 4

    McDonald's 麦当劳

    500 Yunjin Rd 云锦路500号

    190 m from Yunjin Road station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.157, percentile 89.29 of 29

  5. 5

    McDonald's 麦当劳

    Longyang Rd 龙阳路

    104 m from Longyang Road station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.144, percentile 85.71 of 29

  6. 6

    麦当劳

    航北路647号晋豪生活广场

    651 m from Hangzhong Road station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.098, percentile 82.14 of 29

  7. 7

    Burger King 汉堡王

    168 Lujiazui W Rd 陆家嘴西路168号

    178 m from Lujiazui station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.058, percentile 78.57 of 29

  8. 8

    Le Cordon Bleu Shanghai

    浦東南路1458號

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 2.031, percentile 75 of 29

  9. 9

    Burger King 汉堡王

    300 Nanjing E Rd 南京东路300号

    48 m from East Nanjing Road station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.960, percentile 71.43 of 29

  10. 10

    Burger King 汉堡王

    132 Yuyuan Rd

    199 m from Jing'an Temple station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.924, percentile 67.86 of 29

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).