The origin of 30 famous food chains

Have you ever wondered where your favorite fast food chain first appeared? Don't look any more.

1. McDonald's/1398 North E Street, San Bernardino, California.

1940, Morris and Richard McDonald moved their father's food stall "Airport" from Monrovia to San Bernardino and renamed it "McDonald's Bar -BQ". Before 1948, it was an automobile shop. Later, the two brothers reorganized their business, focusing on hamburgers and French fries, and renamed it McDonald's. Although the location of North E Street is no longer an ordinary Mickey Ds, the current owner of the building, Juan Pollo Restaurant, uses this space as their corporate headquarters and unofficial McDonald's Museum. The oldest McDonald's restaurant is located in Downey, California.

2. Pizza Hut//503 South Bluff Street, Wichita, Kansas

1958, Dan and Frank Carney opened their first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas. The two knew that they wanted to use "Pizza" in the name of the new organization, but they didn't decide to use "Hut" until their eureka tower logo could only hold eight letters. 1986, the original hut was moved to the campus of Wichita State University, the alma mater of the Carney brothers, where it was used as a museum.

3. No.TGI Friday Street 1 152, First Avenue, new york, NY.

Looking for a place to meet people-especially the qualified women he noticed near Manhattan-Allen steelman took the initiative and opened a bar and restaurant. Before the opening of 1965, "single bar" was rare. Friday Restaurant is even considered as one of the earliest bars to use "ladies' night" to promote sales. The original TGI closed at 1994 on Friday.

4. Waffle House//No.27 East College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia19

Old Joe Rogers and Tom Faulkner opened their first waffle house at 1955. The original location is now Waffle House Museum, where visitors can view souvenirs and see the reconstruction of the original restaurant.

5. Duncan Donuts//No.543, Southern Art Museum, Quincy, Massachusetts

Before the operation on Dunkin' in the United States, it was a simple donut shop located in the southwest artery of Queensland, Massachusetts. The website was opened at 1948 under the name of Open Kettle, and became Kettle Donuts one year later, and finally Dunkin' Donuts one year later. It became Dunkin of 20 18. Although the building has been rebuilt for many years, it still maintains its original beauty.

6. Starbucks, 2000 West Avenue, Seattle, Washington.

The original Starbucks store started selling coffee beans and equipment at 197 1 2000 West Street, but by 1976, their building was about to be demolished, and they wanted to find a new place. 1977, they opened "1st and Pike" cafes, which are located in front of the historic park market, and the rest are high caffeine.

7. Mexican Grill, East Evans Avenue, Denver, Colorado/1644

When Steve Ells, the founder, opened the first Chipotle Mexican barbecue restaurant near the University of Denver, he and his father thought that 65,438+007 tacos had to be sold a day to make a profit. In a month's time, the sales of this store is more than 10 times this figure. You can still eat tortillas from the original location renovated on 20 17.

8. Nathan's famous/1310 Surf Avenue in Brooklyn, new york.

The Coney Island hot dog stand that started on 19 16 is still Coney Island hot dog stand. Of course, since Nathan Handwerker, a Polish immigrant, used a $300 loan to sell Frank bread made from his wife Ida's cookbook to hungry Brooklyn, Nathan's fame has become a global food chain. But for the Surfing Avenue booth, its appearance has hardly changed.

9. Wendy's, 257 Broad Street East, Columbus, Ohio

The original Wendy's position on the last day.

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Although Wendy's restaurant closed its original restaurant in 2007, the spirit of its first restaurant still exists-in their flagship store in Dublin, Ohio, this store has a whole "community space" full of company history and souvenirs. Some historians, such as Jeffery H, a Yelp user, still consider the closure of the original site a tragedy, calling the day it closed "the darkest day in America".

10. Owl // 2800 Bay to Bay BLVD, Qingshui, Florida.

1983, six businessmen got together and changed the historical face of chain restaurants (ahem). They opened a restaurant called Hooters, which was "pleasant and tacky but not refined". Thanks to "Hooters Six"-as mentioned in the "Legend" section of the restaurant website-people will no longer worry about ordering food and drinks from people wearing real pants. Although it has undergone extensive renovation projects, the original owl restaurant still serves the two wings with the iconic hospitality of the chain store.

1 1.BLIMPIE //No. Washington Street, hoboken, New Jersey 1 10.

1964, three former high school classmates opened the first Blimpie sandwich shop in hoboken, New Jersey. Tony Conza, one of the founders, came across the word blimp after looking up the alternative names of sub and hoagie in the dictionary, so he thought of this name. According to * * *, he thought it sounded like a sandwich. .. he added an' ie' and got his name. Unfortunately, the original Blimpie site has been closed.

12. Taco Bell // 7 1 12 firestone Avenue, Downey, California.

The first Taco Bell (also known as "Numero Uno") opened in Downey, California on 1962. 1986 closed down, and in 20 15, this chain restaurant uprooted the original building and moved to the company headquarters in Irvine.

13. Burger King, 7 Beach Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida146

According to Andrew F. Smith, a food historian, Matthew Burns and his stepson Keith G. Cramer opened their first Insta-Burger King in Jacksonville, Florida in 1953. Inspired by McDonald's in California, they bought a machine called Insta-brooker. Can cook 400 hamburgers per hour. Soon after, they obtained the franchise rights of James McLemore and David R. Edgerton. They gave up Insta-Broiler and changed their name to Burger King. In the end, Mike larmor and edgerton will control the state power and spread Burger King to the whole country. The original position was finally closed.

14. sbarro's/170165th Street, Brooklyn, new york.

It may be hard for you to imagine that Sbarro's is not far from Spencer's gift shop in the food court of the shopping mall, but this pizza chain started in Salumeria (or Italian grocery store) near Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Gennaro and "Mom" Carmela opened a shop here after the original Sbarro immigrated from Naples, and now it is a Japanese restaurant. You can still test the old adage that there is no bad pizza at King Square Shopping Center, and they opened their first shopping center at 1970.

15. White Castle//No.20 North Wichita Street, Kansas1

The first white castle opened in Wichita, Kansas in 192 1. The location is now the location of a bank and the closest place to the original location. You can grab a box of sliders in a few hours. However, White Castle has not forgotten its origin: in 20 1 1 year, the company celebrated its 90th birthday and went back to Wichita to barbecue hamburgers as a fund-raising activity for the Kansas Food Bank.

16.No. Sonik, North Street, Stillwater, Oklahoma // 2 15

Troy Smith Sr, the owner of Top Hat Drive-In, and his partner Charlie Pappe renamed the chain store in Oklahoma as "Sonic Drive-In" on 1959, inspired by the slogan of Top Hat "providing services at the speed of sound". "Although it was not the location of the original top hat (in Shawnee), the first sound wave sign arrived at Stillwater Restaurant, which still exists today.

17. KFC//No.3890 Zhou Nan Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

1930 Harland Sanders started selling fried chicken from his gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. It quickly became so popular that he soon opened a restaurant, tried herbs, spices and cooking methods, and was appointed as a colonel in Kentucky (civilian title, not a soldier). However, it was not until 1952 that KFC fried chicken became popular-and there is still a long way to go. According to Deseret News, Sanders met Pete Harman, the owner of Utah restaurant, at an earlier meeting. 1952, he visited Harman, where they made a deal to sell the colonel's fried chicken in Harman restaurant. It is said that when advertising new products, Harman and logo author Don Anderson decided to choose KFC fried chicken because it is fried chicken, and Sanders is from Kentucky. The original site was demolished in 2004, and it became bigger and displayed souvenirs after reconstruction; It also has a statue of Saunders and Harman.

18. Panda Express // 32 14 Glendale Plaza, Glendale, California

1973, Andrew Cherng, an immigrant from China, and his father Ming Tsai Cherng opened the Panda Inn restaurant in Pasadena, California. After providing high-end catering services to the Los Angeles area 10 years, the management of Glendale Plaza asked Cherngs to consider creating a fast food version for their restaurant. They agreed. Now, if there is no free sample of delicious food and it is impossible to identify delicious food, then the trip to the shopping mall is incomplete.

19. Bridgeport, Connecticut subway//North end

Fred DeLuca, 17 years old, borrowed 1000 dollars from Dr. Peter Baker and opened Pete's super submarine in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The following year, they opened a second store, 1968, which was three years after the establishment of this restaurant. They call it subway for short. The first franchise store opened in 1974. Deluka never became the doctor he wanted to be, but he received an honorary doctorate from university of bridgeport in 2002. The original subway no longer exists, but there are more than 40 thousand other places to choose from for those who want to "eat fresh"

20. Little Caesar//32594 Cherry Hill Road, Garden City, Michigan

Mike and Marian Ilitch opened the first small Caesar in the open-air shopping center in Garden City, Michigan on 1959, which was then called Little Caesar Pizza Shop. (Little Caesar is obviously Marianne's nickname for Mike. This is the beginning of great things: the first franchise store opened in 1962, "Pizza! Pizza! " Slogan made its debut at 1979. Unfortunately, you can't buy "Hot-N-Ready" pizza in the original place anymore: it closed on 20 18.

21.jamb/17 Choro Street, Suite C, San Luis Obispo, California

Jamba started as an advanced project named Juice Club in 1990, when Kirk Perron got a loan from his mother and opened his first store in San Luis Obispo, California. Later, it was renamed Jamba Juice, 1999, and the company acquired Zuka Juice, Inc. (the company has been under the name of Jamba since 20 19. The first Jamba is still running, in case you want a milkshake and some history next time you are in San Luis Obispo.

22. Baldwin Park, California, Interstate 10 and francis key Boulevard.

The first In-N-Out shop opened in 1948, when Harry and Esther Snyder set out to "provide customers with the freshest and best food you can buy, and provide them with friendly service in a sparkling and clean environment." The original location has been demolished, so Interstate 10 can be built, so you must carry out the "animal style" restoration in another location.

23. Tim Horton//No.65, North Otto Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1964, the first Tim Horton doughnut was established under the name of Tim Horton. Horton is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the Toronto Maple Leaf Team. Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police officer, became the boss after an internal farce that led Horton's former business partner to leave. Joyce bought the ice hockey player's shares after Horton died in 1974, and became a wholly-owned owner, and obtained them from his widow at the price of 1 10,000 Canadian dollars. Tim Horton's doughnut was finally abbreviated as "Tim Horton's" and finally further abbreviated as "Tim Horton" to keep the names of all its locations unified and in line with Quebec's language law. The original location is still operated as Tim Horton, but now Ottawa N Street is gloriously named "Tim Horton Road".

24. Five people//3235 Columbia Park Avenue, Arlington, Virginia

1986, Jerry and Jenny Moureyre and four others (Jerry's three sons-three from his first marriage, one with Jenny, although the fifth son was born later) founded five guys. The couple once advised boys to "start a business or go to college". The first restaurant is located in the Westmont Shopping Center, which is also the location of brenner Bakery, where Murrells originally bought rolls. The five no longer call the shopping center in Arlington, Virginia home, but they maintain a strong influence in northern Virginia, where the five groups have opened their business.

25. Chicago Street North, Joliet, Illinois, 50 1

1938, father and son "Grandpa" John Fremont and Alex McCullough tested a revolutionary soft ice cream formula in their friend and client Sherbnnoble's ice cream shop. When the ice cream shop sold more than 1600 ice creams in less than two hours, these three people knew what they were great about. Two years later, Noble opened its first dairy queen in Joliet.

26. Jack in the Box//6270 Elca Hong Avenue, San Diego, California

Robert O. Peterson opened the first jack in the box at 195 1; Jack in the box makes fast food faster through two-way intercom and pick-up window. The first place where Jack once stood in the box is now the Pratt Institute in San Diego.

27. No.0 West 56th Street, new york, NY 665438.

1964, 25-year-old Hiroaki Hiraoka "Loki" Aoki opened his first Benihana with the money he earned by driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. New york people were initially cautious about dining in this restaurant, but after receiving positive comments, people became more receptive to the idea of sitting near a hot surface with strangers while their chefs threw food around. As this concept became more and more popular, the website (then known as Benihanasi) moved to No.47, West 56th Street 1973; Still exists today.

28. Caraba Italian Grill // 3 1 15 Kobe Avenue, Houston, Texas.

Johnny Caraba and his uncle Damian mandola opened the first Caraba Italian barbecue restaurant in 1986. Their restaurant was very successful and soon opened another branch in Houston. By 1993, Carrabba and Mandola cooperated with Outback Steakhouse, Inc. and soon expanded the chain stores to the whole country. The first (and second) Karaba restaurant is still owned and operated by the Karaba family.

29. Green Briar Parkway SW, Atlanta, Georgia, Tel: 284 1

The first fast food restaurant, Fule Chicken, opened on 1967 at the Greenbria Shopping Center in Atlanta. Six years later, S. Truett Cathy, the chairman and CEO of the chain store, began to try boneless chicken breast while working at the Dwarf House restaurant in Hapville, Georgia. At first, Cathy called his hamburger substitute "Chicken Chop" sandwich, but was told that it could not be registered as a trademark, so he changed "Steam" to "fillet" and misspelled it for trademark reasons. The original Fule Chicken Fast Food Restaurant and Dwarf House Restaurant are still open-unless it is Sunday, of course.

30.8602 Potts Lane, San Antonio, Texas

Philip J. Romano, the father of Romano macaroni grill, founded Fuddruckers in 1979 because he believed that "the world needs better hamburgers". This restaurant was originally Freddie Fuddruckers, which was opened in a former bank. This position is still serving customers.