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A week ago we all went to a presentation put on by the SP/SB Historical Society on the Fast Food industry in LA. I am just getting around to writing this. So sue me. Anyhow, I had expected the presentation to be about Fast Food in general. What we got was a little bit about Fast Food businesses and a lot about In-n-Out Burger. Here’s the wikipedia entry for In-n-Out.

Mind you, I’m not complaining. In-n-Out is one of my favorite burger joints. There is one up on the corner and I visit it often.

When we talk about fast food, we are in general talking about franchise businesses that serve the meals in about 2-3 minutes. There usually is a limited menu, typically burgers and fries or fried chicken.

So here are a few factoids that I learned.

• Carl’s Jr started out in life as a hot dog stand.
• In-n-Out was started by Carl Snyder (1914-1976) and is still family owned. ie. not franchised.
• One of In-n-Out’s logos is the crossed palm trees. Based on the crossed Palm trees in the movie “It’s a Mad Mad Mad World”. Adopted in 1972.
• In-n-Out is the only Fast Food joint that uses fresh potatoes rather than frozen fries.
• In-n-Out first opened in 1948.
• McDonald’s first opened by Ray Kroc in San Bernardino in 1951.
• KFC first opened in Corbin, Kentucky by Harlan Sanders during the Great Depression. The first franchised KFC opened in Salt Lake City, UT in 1952.

This entry was posted on April 11, 2016 at 9:08 pm and is filed under California, Food. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: In-n-Out, KFC, McDonalds