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This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).
White Castle Management Co. is an American regional slider restaurant chain with about 345 locations across 13 states, with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metropolitan area. [6] [7] It was founded on September 13, 1921, in Wichita, Kansas. White Castle has been generally credited as the world's first fast food hamburger chain ...
A&W Restaurants, Inc. (also known as Allen & Wright Restaurants) is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its "Burger Family" combos, draft root beer and root beer floats. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W. Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer a new thick and creamy drink, root beer, at a parade ...
Maid-Rite restaurant is one of the oldest chain fast-food restaurants in the United States. Founded in 1926, their specialty is a loose meat hamburger. Maid-Rites can be found in the midwest - mainly Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Missouri.
The Downey stand is the oldest surviving McDonald's restaurant. [9] [10] [11] Ray Kroc joined the chain in 1954 and built it into an eventually global franchise, making it the most successful fast-food corporation in the world.
Here are 11 fast-food chains that are slowly disappearing, including a popular seafood chain. ... Related: 21 of the World's Oldest Fast-Food Chains. Noam Galai/Getty Images. 6. Sbarro
Mexican fast-food chain Naugles operated from 1970 to 1995. The first restaurant opened in Riverside, California, and grew to include establishments in a number of other states including Nevada ...
A former Red Barn location in Mississauga, Ontario, now a Mr. Sub restaurant. This is a list of defunct fast-food chains.A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements.