General view of the In-N-Out Burger on Sunset Blvd on October 21, 2021 in Hollywood, Calif.

For the second year in a row, the Santa Barbara-born Habit Burger & Grill was deemed to have America’s best fast food burger by USA Today. But it’s also the second consecutive year that In-N-Out has slipped in the rankings — it’s no longer even No. 2.

In this year’s best fast food burger readers choice poll, In-N-out came in at No. 4 in a list of 10. Placing ahead of the cult-favorite brand were A&W’s Papa Burger and Jack in the Box’s Jumbo Jack cheeseburger, at numbers two and three, respectively. It’s a bit of a fall in a competitive burger market for the vaunted In-N-Out, especially when A&W was founded in California (it’s now headquartered in Kentucky)........

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