Directory for Fast Food – General

Western Sizzlin

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Spicy Pickle

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Farmer Boys

During the 1970s, brothers Makis and Chris Havadjias worked in restaurants to earn money for college. They helped the owners of one of those restaurants rebuild the establishment, and later bought it. With the experience they gained at that first restaurant, the brothers bought a poorly performing restaurant in Perris, California, that they built into [...]

Buffalo Wings and Rings

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc.

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Hot Stuff Foods LLC

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Taco Bell Corp.

Glen Bell, a 23-year old former Marine, moved back to his hometown of San Bernardino, California in 1946 and opened a hot dog stand. But he was more interested in not-so-traditional foods, and started to sell tacos for 19 cents apiece from the side window of his hot dog stand. The tacos grew in popularity, [...]

McDonald’s

McDonald’s golden arches are an internationally-recognized symbol for the fast, reliable, and tasty service of hamburgers, fries, chicken, breakfast items, milkshakes, and salads. It all started in 1954 when Ray Kroc, a milkshake mixer salesman, visited McDonald’s hamburger stand, owned by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, in 1954. He had heard that they were running [...]