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
In 1941, Morris and Richard McDonald moved their father's food stall "Airport" from Monrovia to San Bernardino and renamed it "McDonald's Bar -BQ". It was an auto shop until 1948, when the brothers reorganized their business, focusing on hamburgers and French fries, and changed their name to McDonald's. Although the location of North E Street is no longer a normal Mickey Ds, the current owner of the building, Juan Pollo Restaurant, uses the space as their corporate headquarters and unofficial McDonald's museum. The oldest McDonald's restaurant is located in Downey, California.
2. Pizza Hut//No.513, South Bluff Street, Wichita, Kansas
In p>1958, Dan and Frank Carney opened their first Pizza Hut in their hometown of 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 they found that the sign of the building could only hold eight letters. In 1986, the original hut was moved to the campus of Wichita State University-the Carney brothers' alma mater-where it was used as a museum.
3. TGI Friday's//11521St Avenue, New York, New York
Looking for a place to meet people-especially the qualified women he noticed near Manhattan-Allen steelman took the initiative to set up a bar and restaurant. Before it opened in 1965, "single bar" was rare. Friday's is even considered as one of the earliest bars to use "Ladies' Night" for promotion. The original TGI Friday's closed in 1994.
4. Waffle House//No.2719 East College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia
Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner opened their first waffle house in 1955. The original location is now Waffle House Museum, where visitors can view souvenirs and see the reconstruction of the original restaurant.
5. Dunkin' donuts//543 Southern Artry, Quincy, Massachusetts
Before it was run on Dunkin' in the United States, it was a simple donut shop located in the south artery of Quincy, Massachusetts. The site opened in 1948 under the name of Open Kettle, and a year later it became Kettle Donuts, and a year later it finally became Dunkin' Donuts. It became Dunkin in 2118. Although the building has been rebuilt for many years, it still maintains its original aesthetic feeling.
6. Starbucks // 2111 WESTERN AVENUE, Seattle, Washington
In 1971, the original Starbucks store began to sell coffee beans and equipment at No.2111 West Street, but by 1976, their building would be demolished and they had to find a new place. In 1977, they opened the "1st and Pike" cafe, which is located at the entrance of the historic Park Market, and the rest is a history of high caffeine.
7. Chipotle Mexican Grill//1644 e Evans Avenue, Denver, Colorado
When Steve Ells, the founder, opened the first Chipotle Mexican barbecue restaurant near Denver University, he and his father thought that it had to sell 117 tacos every day to make a profit. In a month's time, the sales of this store is more than 11 times this figure. You can still get tacos from the original location renovated in 2117.
8. Nathan's Famous//1311 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
The Coney Island hot dog stand started in 1916 ... and is still a Coney Island hot dog stand. Of course, since Nathan Handwerker, a Polish immigrant, used a $311 loan to sell Frank bread made from his wife Ida's cookbook to hungry Brooklyn, Nathan's Famous has become a global food chain. But for the Surf Avenue booth, its appearance has hardly changed.
9. WENDY'S // 257 E. BROAD STREET, Columbus, Ohio
The location of the original Wendy on the last day of its operation.
NICK TAGGART, digital collection of Columbus Library, enjoys resources//public domain through Wikipedia * * *
Although Wendy's closed its original restaurant in 2117, the spirit of the company's first restaurant still exists-in their flagship store in Dublin, Ohio, the store has an entire "community space" full of company history and souvenirs. Some historians, such as Jeffrey H., a Yelp user, still think that the closure of the original location is tragic, calling the day it closed "the darkest day in America."
11. Owl // 2811 GULF-TO-BAY BLVD, clear, Florida
In 1983, six businessmen got together and changed the history of chain restaurants (ahem). They opened a "pleasant tacky but not exquisite" restaurant called Hooters. Thanks to "Hooters Six"-as mentioned in the "Saga" section of the restaurant website-people will no longer suffer from ordering food and drinks from people wearing real pants. Although it has carried out extensive renovation projects, the original Hooters still serve the wings with the iconic hospitality of chain stores.
11. Blimpie//111 Washington St, Hoboken, New Jersey
In 1964, three former high school students opened the first Blimpie sandwich shop in hoboken, New Jersey. Tony Conza, one of the founders, came up with the name after searching the dictionary for the alternative names of sub and hoagie and came across the word blimp. According to * * *, "He thought it sounded like a sandwich. .. he added an' ie' and had his name. " Unfortunately, the original Blimpie location has been closed.
12. Taco Bell//7112 Firestone Boulevard, Downey, California
The first Taco Bell (also known as "Numero Uno") opened in Downey, California in 1962. It was closed in 1986. In 2115, this chain restaurant uprooted the building originally scheduled to be demolished and moved it to the company headquarters in Irvine.
13. Burger King//7146 Beach Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida
According to food historian Andrew F. Smith, 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-Broiler. Can cook 411 hamburgers per hour. Soon after, they obtained the franchise rights of James McLamore 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 location was finally closed.
14. SBARRO'S // 1711 65TH STREET, Brooklyn, new york
It may be hard to imagine that Sbarro's is not far from Spencer's Gifts in the food court of the shopping center, but the pizza chain began in 1956 in a Salumeria (or Italian grocery store) near Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Gennaro and "Mom" Carmela opened a shop here after the original Sbarro's immigrated from Naples, and now it is a Japanese restaurant. You can still test the old adage that there is no bad pizza at Kings Plaza Shopping Centre, where they opened their first shopping mall in 1971.
15. White Castle//No.211 North Street, Wichita, Kansas
The first white castle was opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1921; The site 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 2111, the company celebrated its 91th birthday and specially returned to Wichita to barbecue hamburgers as a fund-raising activity for the Kansas Food Bank.
16. Sonic//215 North Main Street, stillwater, Oklahoma
After discovering that the name of his hamburger shop has been registered as a trademark, Troy Smith Sr, the owner of Top Hat Drive-In, and his partner Charlie Pappe renamed the Oklahoma chain store "Sonic Drive-In" in 1959, which was inspired by Top Hat's slogan "Providing services at the speed of sound". "Although it was not the original Top Hat location (in Shawnee), the first Sonic logo reached Stillwater Restaurant, and it still exists today.
17. KFC//No.3891 Nanzhou Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
In 1931, Harland Sanders started selling fried chicken from his gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. It quickly became so popular that he quickly opened a restaurant, experimented with herbs, spices and cooking methods, and was appointed Colonel of Kentucky (civilian title, not military). However, it was not until 1952 that KFC fried chicken became popular-and there is still a long way to go from Kentucky. According to Deseret News, Sanders met Pete Harman, owner of Utah restaurant, at a meeting earlier. In 1952, he visited Harman, where they made a deal to sell the colonel's fried chicken in Harman's restaurant. It is said that when advertising new products, Harman and logo writer Don Anderson decided to choose KFC fried chicken because it is fried chicken and Sanders is from Kentucky. The original site was demolished in 2114 and rebuilt to be larger and display souvenirs; It also has a statue of Saunders and Harman.
18. panda express//3214 glendale galleria, glendale, California
in 1973, China immigrant Andrew Cherng and his father Ming Tsai Cherng opened the panda inn restaurant in Pasadena, California. After providing high-end dining service to the Los Angeles area for 11 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 not complete.
19. Subway//North end, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Fred DeLuca, aged 17, borrowed $1,111 from Dr. Peter Buck and opened Pete's Super Submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The next year, they opened a second shop. In 1968, three years after the establishment of this restaurant, they called it Subway for short. The first franchise store opened in 1974. Deluka never became the doctor he intended to be, but he did receive an honorary doctorate from university of bridgeport in 2112. The original subway no longer exists, but those who want to "eat fresh" have more than 41,111 other places to choose from.
21. Little Caesar//No.32594, Cherry Hill Road, Garden City, Michigan
Mike and Marian Ilitch opened their first Little Caesars—— in the open-air shopping center in Garden City, Michigan in 1959-then known as Little Caesar's Pizza Treat (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 in 1979. Unfortunately, you can no longer buy "Hot-N-Ready" pizza in its original location: it closed in 2118.
21. Jamb//17 Chorro Street, Suite C, San Luis Obispo, California
Jamba started as an advanced project called Juice Club in 1991, 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, 19.