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Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger in 1924 at the age of 16. He was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California, sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot", and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger."
The first sandwich to actually be called a "cheeseburger" was at Kaelin's restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles Kaelin claims to have invented the cheese-topped burger in 1934 because he wanted, reports Louisville writer Robin Garr, to "add a new tang to the hamburger."
So what genius put it all together? None other than a 16-year-old named Lionel Sternberger. His father owned a sandwich shop, and one day in 1924, Lionel put a slice of American cheese on one of his father’s hamburgers. He called it a “cheese hamburger.”
Processed cheese, the type of cheese most used in cheeseburgers, was invented in 1911 by Walter Gerber of Thun, Switzerland, although the first U.S. patent awarded for it was given to James L. Kraft in 1916.
There are those who believe that a man named Lionel Sternberger came up with the “cheese hamburger” first back in 1926 while working the grill at a place called the Rite Spot (which is no longer there).
Who Invented the Cheeseburger? Located just west of the Colorado Bridge, The Rite Spot stood tall as a roadside burger stand in Pasadena. The year was 1924 and the road was a part of Route 66. Rose Parade spectators dressed in business attire along Colorado Boulevard that New Year's Day.
Stephen Hacker, a food historian and author of "Lost Restaurants of Louisville," doesn't believe the cheeseburger was invented here, though, he said in a recent phone call, he hates to "burst...
Charles Kaelin invented the cheeseburger in 1934 to bring extra flavor to his hamburger offering. But he didn’t trademark it. Nope, that honor instead went to Louis Ballast of Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, who trademarked the name "cheeseburger" in 1935.
Louis Lassen, a chef at the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado, is widely credited with inventing the cheeseburger in 1935. The main difference between a cheeseburger and a hamburger is the addition of a slice of cheese to the cheeseburger.
Lionel Sternberger worked at "The Rite Spot", his father’s sandwich shop in Pasadena, California, when he was 16 and one claim is that he invented the first cheeseburger in 1926. One story says that he experimented with different tastes and placed a piece of American cheese on a hot, just prepared, hamburger patty.