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A trip down "Fast Food Memory Lane"
I know you could not enjoy this day without knowing this trivia, but it is interesting to learn how long some of these places have been in existence. The cars are as interesting as the restaurants. Enjoy another page of history
FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS back to their beginnings
A&W – Opened 1919 in Lodi , California
A&W began in
June 1919, at 13 Pine Street
in Lodi , California , when Roy W. Allen opened his first root beer stand.
Two years later, Allen began franchising the drink, arguably the first
successful food-franchising operation. His profits came from a small
franchise fee and sales. The following year, Allen partnered with Frank
Wright to help Wright with the root beer business he had started that year.
They branded their product A&W Root Beer.
Arby’s – Opened 1964
in Youngstown , Ohio ...(ARBY'S also, started as ROY
ROGERS ROAST BEEF..in Van Nuys
, Calif. )
Big Boy – Opened 1936 in Glendale , California
Burger King – Opened 1953 in Jacksonville , Florida
The predecessor to
Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville
, Florida , as Insta-Burger
King. After visiting the McDonald brothers’ original store location in San
Bernardino, California, the founders and owners (Keith J. Kramer and his
wife’s uncle Matthew Burns), who had purchased the rights to two pieces of
equipment called “Insta” machines, opened their first restaurants. Their
production model was based on one of the machines they had acquired, an
oven called the “Insta-Broiler”. This strategy proved so successful that
they later required all of their franchises to use the device. After the company
faltered in 1959, it was purchased by its Miami , Florida
franchisees, James McLamore and David R. Edgerton. They initiated a
corporate restructuring of the chain, first renaming the company Burger
King. They ran the company as an independent entity for eight years
(eventually expanding to over 250 locations in the United States
), before selling it to the Pillsbury Company in 1967.
Church’s Chicken –
Opened 1952 in San Antonio , TX
Dairy Queen – Opened 1940 in Joliet , Illinois
Del Taco – Opened 1964 in Yermo , California
Dominos – Opened 1960 in Ypsilanti , Michigan
Dunkin’ Donuts – Opened 1950 in Quincy , Massachusetts
Hardee’s – Opened 1960 in Rocky Mount , North Carolina
In-N-Out Burger – Opened 1948 in Baldwin Park , California
Jack in the Box – Opened 1951 in San Diego , California
Kentucky Fried Chicken – Opened 1930 in North Corbin , Kentucky
Before it was
called KFC, Harland Sanders, began selling fried chicken from his
roadside restaurant in Corbin
, Kentucky , called Sanders Court
& Café. The first “Kentucky Fried Chicken”
franchise opened in Utah
in 1952.
Little Caesar’s –
Opened 1959 in Garden City, Michigan
McDonald’s – Opened 1937 in Monrovia , California
The McDonald
family moved from Manchester , New Hampshire to Hollywood in the late 1930s, where
brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald began working as set movers and
handymen at Motion-Picture studios. In 1937, their father Patrick McDonald
opened “The Airdrome”, a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66)
near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California with hot dogs being one
of the first items sold. Then Hamburgers came along and were ten cents with
an all-you-can-drink orange juice at five cents. In 1940, Maurice and
Richard (“Mac” and “Dick”) moved the entire building 40 miles (64 km) east,
to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets
in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed “McDonald’s Bar-B-Que”
and had twenty-five menu items, mostly barbecue.
PizzaHut – Opened
1958 in Wichita , Kansas
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 by two Wichita State University students, Dan and Frank Carney, at a single location in Wichita , Kansas
Sonic – Opened 1953 in Shawnee , Oklahoma
Subway – Opened 1965 in Bridgeport , Connecticut
Taco Bell – Opened 1962 in Downey , California
Taco Cabana – Opened 1978 in San Antonio , Texas
Wendy’s – Opened 1969 in Columbus , Ohio
Whataburger – Opened 1950 in Corpus Christi , Texas
White Castle – Opened 1921 in Wichita , Kansas
William Ingram’s and Walter Anderson’s White Castle System created the first fast food supply chain to provide meat, buns, paper goods, and other supplies to their restaurants, pioneered the concept of the multistate hamburger restaurant chain, standardized the look and construction of the restaurants themselves, and even developed a construction division that manufactured and built the chain’s prefabricated restaurant buildings. The McDonalds’ Speedee Service System and, much later, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s outlets and Hamburger University all built on the principles, systems, and practices that White Castle had already established between 1923 and 1932.
Some historians and secondary school textbooks concur that A&W, which opened in 1919 and began franchising in 1921, was the first fast food restaurant ( E. Tavares ). Thus, the American company White Castle is generally credited with opening the second fast-food outlet in Wichita , Kansas in 1921, selling hamburgers for five cents apiece from its inception and spawning numerous competitors and emulators. What is certain, however, is that White Castle made the first significant effort to standardize the food production in, looks, and the operation of fast-food hamburger restaurants.
TMI?
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4 comments:
What you achieve with photoshop always is amazing.
The trip down "Fast Food Memory Lane" wasn't TMI at all. I never had thought there were so many different fast food supply chains and I was surprised what a long history they have. Before some of them came to us we only had "Würstelstandl", that were little huts were you could get boiled sausages with two different kinds of mustard or horseradish and some bread. Later they also offered grilled sausages with Sauerkraut and pommes. You ate them in front of the hut, standing of course, also in winter. But it was fun and they tasted wonderful.
All of your grandhunks are healthy now? I hope so.
Wishing you a nice evening, dear Jacki.
Another cool, digital composition! Aptly titled and so timely! I agree with Elenor. So fun to read about the history of fast food. I learned a lot that I never knew. Elenor, I sure enjoyed reading about your fast food experience! Also, it is fun knowing the 3 of us were teachers! I was fascinated reading about you reading Marie Currie to your students. What an amazing woman she was. What did you teach? I am assuming Jacki was an art teacher with all her talent. I would have loved to have been an art teacher but they cut funding for art teachers at the elem. level when I was teaching. There was 1 art teacher at the middle school and 1 at the high school level though. Loved the "smiles"! Mercurochrome! Oh my goodness, I had forgotten. So true! My mom used it on us for everything. Laughed hard at Keith Richard's and my heart felt so full at seeing the sheep sharing one of her twin lambs. Kindness and love exists everywhere! It was nice to see the memory you shared of you and Mark Martinez. Such happiness on that day and such a void looking back now, I am sure. May you have less pain and a full heart today Jacki.
Thank you, as always Elenor, for making me feel appreciated. The fast-food was a long one, but I didn't see what I could cut and I assumed people would skip it if it didn't interest them. I basically put what interests me. and the smiles have to make me laugh to be posted.
The boys are all out of quarantine today, and the parent tested twice and never positive.
As AZ Carol said, I enjoyed reading about your "Würstelstandl", I could picture and almost taste it, it sounded so good. It seems I have a better appreciation of food now than before. Please take good care, Elenor.
Thank you, AZ Carol, it is always lovely to hear from you. And, I love the friendship that you and Elenor have developed. Elenor was a math teacher and does really nice collages with a mathematical slant. I taught art and PE. I am so glad you liked the blog, that makes me happy. I am working on tomorrow's tonight, and am about 2/3 done. Take care.
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