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A former 1970s-era Burger Chef in Essexville, Michigan, occupied by health offices, as seen in October 2008 A former Pup 'N' Taco restaurant on old Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ameche's Drive-in – Five suburban locations in metropolitan Baltimore. Burger Chef; Burger Queen/Druther's – chain based in Louisville, Kentucky. It was ...
Gino's Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche, along with their close friends Joe Campanella, who played linebacker for six seasons for the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts and Louis Fischer, in 1957. A new group of ...
The first H.A. Winston & Co. restaurant opened in 1972 at Front and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Initially, the restaurant was considered a singles bar that incidentally purveyed hamburgers and onion soup, [1] but the chain soon grew popular as a casual dining establishment [2] with restaurants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Virginia.
Wetson's struggled against the large national hamburger chains McDonald's and Burger King when they entered the New York metropolitan area market in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This led in 1975 to Wetson's merging with the Nathan's Famous fast-food chain, the closing of 29 Wetson's locations, [ 4 ] and the ultimate discontinuation of the ...
White Tower Hamburgers 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 ...
The family dug up an old recipe in 1991 and opened Menches Bros. Restaurant a few years later, serving 50 burger variations, and in honor of the two brothers, the city of Akron hosted a National ...
Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ill ...
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 ]