On Sun, 23 May 2021 14:36:50 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
> wrote:

>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!
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