{"id":1242,"date":"2009-09-25T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:06:00","slug":"my-introduction-to-the-fast-food-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"My Introduction to the Fast Food Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"

McDonald’s was late in coming to my city.\u00a0\u00a0 One had to drive\u00a0 150 miles to get to one when I was growing up.\u00a0\u00a0 But that’s not to say my town was fast food-less.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to locally-owned establishments, our first burger chain entry was Henry’s, followed a few years later by Sandy’s.<\/p>\n

Both were Midwestern chains, eventually both reaching between 150-200 outlets before fading from the scene.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sandy’s was started in Illinois by a couple of guys who had one of the first McDonald’s franchises, got mad at Ray\"henryssign955\"<\/a> Kroc, sued him, then started up their own deal.<\/p>\n

Henry’s was started as an off-shoot of Bressler’s Ice Cream, in order to cash in on the drive-in craze, and to have additional outlets to sell their ice cream.\u00a0\u00a0 In the early days, Henry’s outlets far-outnumber McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

I remember our family going to Henry’s on very rare occasions, probably when my mom was managing the brood because my dad was out of town.\u00a0 I do remember the sign that touted the 15 cent burger, or ten for a buck promotion.<\/p>\n

Sandy’s was a bit more full-line, with a “Scottish” theme, eventually sold out and converted the units to Hardees.<\/p>\n

Here’s an old Sandy’s commercial.<\/p>\n

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McDonald’s was late in coming to my city.\u00a0\u00a0 One had to drive\u00a0 150 miles to get to one when I was growing up.\u00a0\u00a0 But that’s not to say my town was fast food-less.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to locally-owned establishments, our first burger chain entry was Henry’s, followed a few years later by Sandy’s. Both were Midwestern… Continue reading My Introduction to the Fast Food Burger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1699,1744,3109,3110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}