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A list of Burger Chef locations! Where was your local store? What is it now?
Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain that operated from 1954 to 1996. It had 1,050 locations at its peak in 1973, but was sold to Hardee's in 1982 and gradually closed or converted.
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Burger Chef’s Funmeal, which debuted in 1973, featured Burger Chef and Jeff as well as Burgerini, Count Fangburger, Burgerilla, and Cackleburger. Their mascots were Burger Chef and his younger sidekick Jeff. Each Funmeal cardboard box included riddles and puzzles galore and a small toy. McDonald’slater introduced their Happy Meal, a similar concept...
During Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back’s original theatrical releases in 1977 and 1980, Burger Chef gave away posters with the purchase of a soft drink. The original posters are highly collectible and can be found on eBay. Be careful; there are now reprints out there, so make sure to ask the seller where they got the posters before you buy them.
I found this collection of Burger Chef commercials on youtube and knew instantly that you needed to see them.
You can see a Burger Chef restaurant in action on season seven of the TV show Mad Men. Burger Chef was one of the clients of the program’s fictional advertising firm, Sterling Cooper. The production crew took Jim’s Burgers (now Chris’s Burgers) in Rialto, California, a former Burger Chef building, and painstakingly brought it back to its former glo...
Vicki’s Lunch Van in Montgomery, Alabama, and Jack’s Old Fashion Hamburger House in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are both located in former Burger Chef buildings. They have one other thing in common; both serve awesome old-school burgers. Most locations below still have the original building structure and sign outside. In some cases, the building may ...
There is more Burger Chef information if you dig a little, I’d suggest you check out the links below. https://www.freewebs.com/burgerchef/ http://jsfburgerchef.homestead.com/ https://www.roadarch.com/eateries/bchef.html https://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=65766bda-9049-4276-9ee6-1fe3ed9e6d1f http://web.archive.org/web/2003042514520...
Learn about the rise and fall of Burger Chef, a nationwide burger chain that competed with McDonald's and Hardee's. Find out which restaurants still operate in former Burger Chef buildings and see photos and ads of their products and mascots.
- Howard Johnson's. Courtesy Ben Schumin. What took the mojo out of HoJo? In the 1950s and ‘60s, Howard Johnson’s restaurants were a real roadside attraction for baby-boomer kids being carted around in the car by their Greatest Generation parents.
- Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips. Courtesy Nicholas Eckhart via Flickr/CC 2.0. Arthur Treacher, a real-life English character actor (you may know him as the butler Jeeves in some Shirley Temple movies), was the spokesperson and nameplate for Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips, but wasn’t the owner of the chain that at its peak had 826 restaurants in the U.S. (Trivia Night factoid: Dave Thomas, the founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain, helped get Arthur Treacher’s rolling in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969, before launching his Wendy’s juggernaut out of the same city.)
- Chi-Chi's. Courtesy Nicholas Eckhart via Flickr/CC 2.0. Chi-Chi’s was big on spicy food, from salsa and nachos to everything else Americans think of (chimichangas and fried ice cream anyone?)
- Beefsteak Charlie's. YouTube. An all-you-can-eat salad bar, plus unlimited beer and wine and massive portions of hamburgers, steaks, ribs and chicken at ridiculously low prices.
In November 1981, the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana, experienced a tragedy that severely impacted the chain’s reputation. Four employees were kidnapped from the restaurant during closing time, and their bodies were tragically found several miles away.
Burger Chef -which peaked at 1.200 stores-went into a tailspin. General Foods sold Burger Chef to Hardee's in 1982. It was at this time most Burger Chefs were converted to Hardee's outlets. many were closed or sold-especially those with a Hardee's location nearby.
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Our burgers of choice were available only at the BBF, located under “the whirling satellite” on Hamilton Road, across the street from the Great Eastern Shopping Center (the spot is now occupied by a Ponderosa Steak House and a Waterbeds ‘N Stuff). BBF sold my favorite burgers, simple cheeseburgers with ketchup and mustard.
