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Does anyone remember eating at Burger Chef restaurants?

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I can remember eating at Burger Chefs in the 1970's maybe 1980's. Does anyone else remember Burger Chef?


I really liked it right before they went out of business, they introduced "The Works Bar". You could dress the burgers any way you liked. You could add all the lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions etc that you wanted. Burger Chef.jpg


 
Burger Chef was the spot we all hang out during my senior high school year., '67 to '68. My favorite was their hot ham and cheese sandwich.

There was an upstart, actually founded in our city. It was called "Arby's", witch stood for "Roast Beef", R-B.
 
Sounds like I am too young to have tried it, but I love the idea.
 
You bet I remember Burger Chef. In fact, I remember, "Burger Chef & Jeff".

My memories go back to 1964 when my parents loved to stop by Burger Chef as a way to my mom out of the kitchen. Plus the food was far better tasting than McDonald's. Burger Chef fried their potatoes in beef tallow. Each bite was like french fry heaven!

The real outstanding feature was the available "burger bar", allowing you to add lettuce, tomato, pickles, sweet relish and even sauerkraut - sauerkraut on a hamburger!

The "burger bar" was on the flip side of the salad bar and I loved adding salad bar fixin's to my burger, like chic peas and shredded carrots with pickled beets. It was fun to try different salad dressings on my french fries.

Burger Chef was also the first fast food restaurant I ever saw that had bottled catsup and mustard on every table. Plu you poured your own soft drink with free refills.

All this was years before McDonald's and Burger King did the same.

 
Maybe. The logo looks familiar. I do remember Bob's Big Boy too. You don't see much of them anymore.
 
I don't think they made it into Canada. The only place where you could 'build your burger' was Harvey's, and I don't even know if they're still around.
 
I should remind everyone that I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia - a massive Navy Base pretending to be a city.

Burger Chef discovered that navy men love to eat and the local Burger Chef's in Norfolk quickly expanded their salad offerings to include "European and Asian" style sides and garnishes.

But it all began to change by the end of the 1970's.

For reasons that I really don't understand Burger Chef sales began to dip as McDonald's and Burger King battled each other in the 1980's for fast food dominance - giving Pizza Hut and Godfather's Pizza something to talk about!

That Burger Chef still served the best tasting burgers in the business didn't seem to matter. Go figure.
 
gsdx said:
I don't think they made it into Canada. The only place where you could 'build your burger' was Harvey's, and I don't even know if they're still around.
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Burger Chef never operated in Canada, although the Canadian company Imasco (which also owned Hardee's) bought it from General Foods in 1982. Most locations began the conversion to Hardee's, some that didn't simply closed. Imasco sold Hardee's to CKE in 1997.

I DO remember many Burger Chef locations, since their growth strategy focused on smaller towns at first; they realized competing with McD's would be difficult, so they went were McD's wouldn't at the time.
 
I remember them well, I managed the night shift at McD's back in71-3 and Burger Chef was 2 miles so. of us, the kids would cruise our lot and then head so. to b chef and cruise theirs, back and forth looking for their friends. Back then there were no pagers, cell phones etc.
 
No, I don't remember Burger Chef. It must not have been in our area. Too bad, it sounds like it was a good place to eat.
 
Taralen said:
Maybe. The logo looks familiar. I do remember Bob's Big Boy too. You don't see much of them anymore.
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Now You're Talking!


One of the most interesting stories in restaurant eating in the United States is the story of Bob's "Big Boy" Restaurants.

The "Big Boy" franchise predates the Interstate Highway System, a time when many fewer people traveled as freely as we do today. The result was a "national chain restaurant" that operated as independent casual dining establishments.

Many "Big Boy" restaurants had unique menus, with regional entrees and local favorite desserts. I remember one of the most popular desserts was Big Boy's Fresh Strawberry pie served with real whipped cream. Available only during the strawberry harvest season around May or june through the early summer - when the strawberries were gone, no more pies until next year!

As the "Big Boy" chain spread around the country, all "Big Boy" restaurants served the Big Boy double-decker hamburger - years before McDonald's Big Mac.

You needed a map to know what to call the restaurants across the nation. In the western USA it was Bob's Big Boy. Across the southern USA and along parts of the eastern seaboard, it was Shoney's Big Boy. In parts of Ohio the name was Frisch's Big Boy.

And that's just a short list of the names early cross-country drivers ran into.

Across the south, Big Boy restaurant owners often teamed up with other cuisines to create dishes for every food craving.

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I remember them also and then they were bought by Hardee's and changed their name.

Big Boys here were Frisch's Big Boy.

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It was the first fast food place that my Dad took the family to on a Saturday afternoon. He insisted that Mom would always make lunch on a Saturday. But he gave in and took us (the 4 of us) there. To this day, I can recall vividly that Saturday afternoon. :)
 
I remember Burger Chef well; to me they are STILL the champion of all big-chain hamburgers. Now, In-N-Out has overtaken them, but I also don't think of them as "big-chain" because they're so regional.

EddMarkStarr said:
One of the most interesting stories in restaurant eating in the United States is the story of Bob's "Big Boy" Restaurants.

You needed a map to know what to call the restaurants across the nation. In the western USA it was Bob's Big Boy. Across the southern USA and along parts of the eastern seaboard, it was Shoney's Big Boy. In parts of Ohio the name was Frisch's Big Boy.

And that's just a short list of the names early cross-country drivers ran into.
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Not to mention that they were Elias Bros. in Michigan, where I grew up...and I remember that in eastern Ohio they were Elby's or something like that.

For me, Shoney's was indelibly associated with Tennessee, and especially Nashville.

In Ohio, they were Frisch's...even right over the Michigan border in Toledo, and I think almost all of Ohio. I do remember seeing the name Elby's (?) in Akron, at least.

They always had the best hot fudge sundae.
 
Never heard of it, i've been to a Wimpy, tucked into an arcade with Bingo for the old and one arm bandits.
 
I might be wrong, but I believe Bob's Big Boy was the first to develop the drive-in concept where your food was delivered to your car. And, yes, they were the first double-deck hamburger. They quickly spread across the country.

frankfrank, you're right about Elby's Big Boy. They were in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Eastern Ohio.

My first job out of college was night manager at Shoney's Big Boy just outside Durham, NC. We weren't the drive-in though, that was further into town, our "sister" restaurant.

The recipe for the breading on deep fried foods, like chicken, fish, and onion rings, was kept locked in the safe, and only the manager was allowed to make it. However, I never got my hands on the recipe for the "special dressing" on the burgers, or the glaze filling for the strawberry pie. Those were shipped in from corporate.

One thing Shoney's served, that most other Big Boy's didn't, was grits, with practically Everything.
 
Another blast from the past is making a comeback. 98 year old A&W Rootbeer.

While their success has just started to turn around, the effort to rebrand and regain popularity—there were 2,400 A&W stores in the 1960s, compared to around 900 today—began back in 2011, when former CEO Kevin Bazner rejoined the company.

One of the first improvements Bazner made was the root beer. He swapped out the carbonated soda machines and syrup and returned to the 1919 recipe that made the brand famous in the first place. Today, 100 percent of A&W stores' root beer is made in-house, daily, without any preservatives.
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Now I'm really craving a Root Beer Float. :drool:

http://www.wesh.com/article/aw-restaurant-wants-to-make-a-comeback/10202420
 
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