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In November, McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Chile. [72] 1992: A McDonald's employee and two others open fire, killing and injuring several people in the Sydney River McDonald's in Nova Scotia, Canada. [73] 1993: On October 14, the first McDonald's in Israel opens in Ramat Gan. 1995: The first McDonald's in Estonia opens in Tallinn. [74]
While the first fast-food restaurant in the United States was a White Castle in 1921, [2] fast-food restaurants had been operating elsewhere much earlier, such as the Japanese fast food company Yoshinoya, started in Tokyo in 1899. [3]
The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded on July 23, 1954, in Jacksonville, Florida, as Instant Burger King.. Inspired by the McDonald brothers' original store location in San Bernardino, California, the founders and owners, Keith G. Cramer and his stepfather Matthew Burns, began searching for a conce
Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain. It began operating in 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana, expanded throughout the United States, and at its peak in 1973 had 1,050 locations, including some in Canada. [1] The chain featured several signature items, such as the Big Shef and Super Shef hamburgers.
The McDonalds brothers open their first McDonald's restaurant on May 15 in San Bernardino, California. [113] Fast food USA 1943 White Rabbit Creamy Candy introduced Confections China 1947 Bazooka Bubble Gum introduced Chewing gum USA 1948 Polo breath mint introduced by Rowntree's Factory, York Confections England 1948 Canada lifts the ban on ...
The first White Castle in central Missouri opened in Columbia in October 2010. [25] The first White Castle in the far western United States opened at the Casino Royale Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip on January 27, 2015. [26] This was the first expansion for White Castle into a region outside the Midwest and Northeast in 56 years.
Louis' Lunch is a fast food hamburger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, which claims to be the first fast food restaurant to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a small lunch wagon in 1895 and was one of the first places in the U.S. to serve steak sandwiches.
The chain continued to expand overseas, and in 1987 KFC became the first Western restaurant chain to open in China. In 1997, PepsiCo spun off its restaurants division as Tricon Global Restaurants, which changed its name to Yum! Brands in 2002. Yum! has proven to be a more focused owner than Pepsi, and although KFC's number of outlets has ...