On 5/23/2021 2:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2021 14:25:35 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
> > wrote:
>
>> On 5/23/2021 2:21 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>>> And who was McDonald? Probably not the guy from the farm.
>>>
>> Right you are!
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richar...urice_McDonald
>>
>> "The McDonald brothers €“ Richard James (February 2, 1909 €“ July 14,
>> 1998) and Maurice James (November 26, 1902 €“ December 11, 1971) €“ were
>> American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's.
>> They opened the original McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino,
>> California in 1940, where they created the Speedee Service System to
>> produce their meals, a method that would become the standard for fast
>> food. After partnering with Ray Kroc in 1954, they continued to run the
>> company until they were bought out by Kroc in 1961."
>>
>>
>> Now the real sleuthing must start - just WHO was the Burger King?!?!?
>>
>> Bonus round - solve for Burger Chef.
>>
>> Have at.
>
> Well, it wasn't a person. Wikipedia speaks of "the founders and
> owners, Keith J. Cramer and his step father Matthew Burns".
>

Yabutt...

" In 1954, Frank and Donald Thomas patented the flame broiler in their
parent company General Equipment Corporation and started their own
restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1957, they opened their first
Burger Chef.


A Burger Chef restaurant pictured in the mid-1960s
Burger Chef spread across the United States, following a strategy of
opening outlets in smaller towns.[2] By 1972 its number of locations
(1,200) was surpassed only by McDonald's (1,600).[3] They offered a
double burger, called the Big Shef, and later the quarter-pound
hamburger, Super Shef.


In 1982, General Foods sold Burger Chef to the Canadian company Imasco,
which also owned Hardee's, for $44 million.[6] Imasco converted many
locations to Hardee's restaurants and let franchises and locations near
existing Hardee's locations convert to other brands. Remaining
restaurants that did not convert to Hardee's or new names and branding
simply closed."

So BK done STOLE flame broiled they did, lol.

" its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore
purchased the company and renamed it "Burger King". Over the next
half-century, the company changed hands four times, with its third set
of owners, a partnership of TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs
Capital Partners, taking it public in 2002. In late-2010, 3G Capital of
Brazil acquired a majority stake in the company, in a deal valued at
US$3.26 billion. The new owners promptly initiated a restructuring of
the company to reverse its fortunes. 3G, along with partner Berkshire
Hathaway, eventually merged the company with the Canadian-based doughnut
chain Tim Hortons, under the auspices of a new Canadian-based parent
company named Restaurant Brands International."

And you Canucks stole ALL our flame-broiled burgers.

Not nice!