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A flame broiler unit developed by Burger King and Duke Manufacturing A Nieco MBP94 flexible flame broiler. A flame broiler is a commercial mechanical gas grill used to cook various products. It is in use by the Burger King fast-food restaurant chain and was also used by the Burger Chef chain.
Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain. It began operating in 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana, expanded throughout the United States, and at its peak in 1973 had 1,050 locations, including some in Canada. [1]
The machine was capable of cooking over 400 patties per hour, which allowed the company to grow rapidly. When McLamore and Edgarton opened their first Insta-Burger King location in Miami, they revamped the unit into what they called a "flame broiler" – the forerunner of the modern unit used by Burger King today. [68]
As a burger chain, Biff Burger was known for its “flame-broiled” burger. Biff Burgers were produced using the Roto-red broiler designed by the Branes. The broiler was set up in two parts: An upper rotisserie rack broiled the beef and a second lower rack toasted the buns, which collected the juices dropped from the beef. [2]
Louis' Lunch flame broils the hamburgers in the original cast iron vertical gas broilers [15] manufactured by the Bridge and Beach, Co., St. Louis, Missouri, in 1898. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The stoves [ 19 ] use hinged steel wire gridirons [ 20 ] to hold the hamburgers in place while they cook simultaneously on both sides.
Then, on June 1, he and Edgerton joined forces and formed Burger King of Miami, Inc. Together, they opened numerous Burger King stores and introduced the Whopper in 1957. Concurrently, Edgerton, exasperated by the unreliable Insta machines, developed the flame broiler, a key innovation that distinguished Burger King from its competitors.
Wimpy Grills – founded in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1934; eventually grew to 25 locations within the United States and 1,500 outside of the U.S.; its international locations were eventually sold to J. Lyons and Co. in the United Kingdom, which remains open while all of the American locations eventually closed by 1978 [14] [15] [16] [17]
The BK Broiler was the first iteration, and was one of the most successful product introductions in the fast food industry to that point in time. However sales dropped in the following two years, and the product was reformulated and renamed to the Chicken Whopper to align the product with the company's Whopper Sandwich.