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Jim's Restaurants is an American chain of restaurants owned by Uptown San Antonio, Texas-based Frontier Enterprises. Jim's, most well known for its breakfast and charbroiled hamburgers, was started in 1947 when Germano "Jim" Hasslocher and his business partner and wife Veva Ball Hasslocher built their first burger stand.
In 1921, Kirby's Pig Stand introduced the drive-in restaurant, in which carhops delivered meals. In 1931, a California Pig Stand franchise introduced a drive-through service that bypassed the carhops. The first identified drive-through restaurant was established in 1947 at Red's Giant Hamburg located in Springfield, Missouri. [4]
In 2020, Sonic unveiled a new drive-in design with an updated, wider layout for car docks and the drive-thru lane, a new kitchen layout built for efficiency, and an aesthetic makeover. [57] By March 2020, all locations indefinitely suspended patio dining due to COVID-19, but continued to serve take-away and pickup customers.
1. The Fastest Fast-Food Drive-Thru: Taco Bell. Average Wait Time: 1 minute, 13 seconds Average Service Time: 3:25 Average Total Time: 4:38 For truly fast food, head to Taco Bell.
The first Mel's Drive-In was founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.It later expanded to several other locations. After the last of the original restaurants closed in the 1970s, Weiss's son Steven Weiss and partner Donald Wagstaff opened the first of a new generation of Mel's Drive-In restaurants in 1985. [1]
These new locations in Texas required the company to build a new patty production facility and distribution center in the state, [42] according to company vice president Carl Van Fleet. [43] In March 2014, the company confirmed its first location in San Antonio. [44] The fall of 2014 saw the restaurant open its 22nd Texas location in Killeen. [45]
The restaurant started as a poultry and egg business in 1950 from a $500 loan. Founder Bill Miller later expanded the business into a fried chicken take-out restaurant in 1953 and later shifted into a barbecue restaurant. 76 Bill Miller Bar-B-Q restaurants cover the San Antonio, Austin, and Corpus Christi markets.
It now has 36 locations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Drive-thru coffee chain began 4 years ago. Now it plans over 20 Kansas City area ...