15 Forgotten Fast Food Chains

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1. Kenny Rogers are popular here in the Phillipines, and Shakey's too.

2. .15 cent hamburger 🍔….. what time to be alive 😳😋

3. Remember "sniglets"? There was one called "Farrelophobia" which was defined as "the fear of strangers singing to you on your birthday." (I wish I could find the actual definition to quote. Can you?)

4. Richmond's…D'Lite's Fast Food…..

5. I still remember Gino’s and Chi-Chi’s

6. I remember one of the first fast food restaurants in Beckley, WV was Burger Boy Foodarama.

7. We also had a Shoney's and Church's Fried Chicken, but they may have been more local than a national franchise. I think Shoney's was related to Big Boy.

8. Hometown buffet I miss there food

9. I use to work as a soda jerk at Farrell's when I got my first job back in 1974. The only reason I left this job was because I joined the Marines in Nov 1975.

10. I live in South Carolina and travel all through the South one of the restaurant I miss the most in my state is Quincy's

11. I like ice cream, pharaohs ice cream boy I wish I was still in business when I went out of business, we went to Betsy Ross ice cream on foothill Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in Ontario California. I don’t know if Betsy Ross is still in business but they sure had a good ice cream Howard Johnson’s were always good to, so was carols bring back a lot of good old memories👍🏼👍🏼💖😀

12. Po Folks, Quincy's and Bonanza restaurants were some of my favorites.

13. The closing of Farrells hurt the kid in me.

14. Wilber Hardee, who founded and sold the Hardee's chain, later started Little Mint. It was somewhat similar to Hardee's, but I thought it was better while it lasted.

15. We had one of those in Batavia, NY. as well as "The Red Barn"

16. Golden Bear, Western Sizzlin'

17. I miss Paul Revere’s pizza! Was a Pizza Hut pizza delivery type restaurant

18. You had Red Barn in the Intro but didn't cover them. I remember then and they folded in the late 70s / early 80s. I remember many of their locations repurposed the distinctive barn shaped building into something else such as a TV and Stereo shop or car dealership. I wonder if any of those buildings are still around.

19. Great video! Bobs Big Boy was such a childhood memory. Gino’s still exists. Big fan of their place in Towson, MD., and pretty sure they have one more place operating around the Baltimore area.

20. Loved Farrells and the big ice cream cakes they rolled out on people's birthdays Bob's Big Boy was perfect, and Sambos was good too Shoney's (east coast Big Boy) was good too, and is almost extinct by now I'll never forget all the billboards everywhere for Stuckey's Pecan Roll Will this be the end of Golden Corral this year?

21. There was absolutely no valid reason for Winky's to close.
    Business owners decide to be victims and make that happen.

22. Some of these defunct restaurants bring back wonderful memories from my youth on Long Island, New York (1976 – 1986). Wag's was a favorite lunch stop on my Saturday visits at the Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City. Loved their patty melts! Chi-Chi's, near the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, was a Sunday lunchtime favorite after church services. Loved their chicken chimichangas!

23. See if you can find anything on Shopper’s World owned by Alden’s- My dad’s transfer from a small Illinois town to the Chicago suburbs to manage one changed my family’s life 50 years ago

24. Porky's on university Avenue in st. Paul Minnesota closed about around early 2010 area. Once a very great place to eat and service to everyone's favorite taste will cooked food there. 😋

25. There are actually several Gino's left here in Baltimore and they are still very good.

26. Dammm. Showbiz pizza.. i was there. Columbus Ohio

27. We still have an original Big Boy in Tijuana Mexico… Even from the inside looks like in the late 70's… Its located at the Diaz Ordaz Blvd

28. I live in Maryland and we actually have a few Ginos restaurants, they made a come back randomly some years ago

29. I had been lamenting the loss of Big Boy restaurants for a while until a road trip in 2022 took me past Creech AFB in Nevada off of U.S. 95. Of course I stopped in for a burger!

30. Penguin Point had the best apple turnovers; two of the their buildings still exist here in Lafayette.

31. Speedy Burger

32. THE WORSTED
    FAST FOOD RESTAURANT
    IT'S WITH OUT A DOUBT
    McDONAL'S
    IN MY OPINION. BURGER KING , WENDY'S
    IN"N" OUT
    ARE BETTER BY FAR
    AND CHEAPER THAN McDONAL'S. !!!!
    I'M WAITING FOR McDONAL'S
    TO DISAPPEAR FOR GOOD
    AND NEVER COME BACK AGAIN !!!!!!!

33. If you are seated, a server takes your order and brings your food it’s not a fast food restaurant. It might be cheap and have a limited menu but it’s not fast food.

34. Shoney's

35. We have a Bob's Big Boy restaurant here in Mexico.. Tijuana..very popular

36. Most of these are East coast restaurant

37. I remember Burger Chef when I was a kid in SC in the 70s.

38. I'm not sure if it was a chain restaurant but our local mall in Alton, Illinois had a restaurant called York Steak House back in the 80's. My parents were very frugal but would splurge for a trip there every couple months for the beef tips. The food was delicious and the fresh hot rolls were to die for!

39. We had a Checkers and a Ponderosa in my hometown. They are now a cell phone store and a jewelry store respectively. There was a Burger Chef too that's now a mom-and-pop pizzeria.

40. Our local Burger Chef in Alton, Illinois back in the 70's had an old man that frequented it that was deaf and mute. He would make balloon animals for little kids. Nowadays that could seem creepy I guess, but he was truly harmless, and only approached smaller kids(age 5-8), who were seated with parents and would gently gesture to the parents to get approval before offering it to the little ones. I wish kids today could know that type of safe world again.

41. Shakeys pizza

42. One of the best ones you missed was called Sambos! Dennys type place

43. Kahiki in Columbus on broad street it was shut down in 2000 they make frozen food but the restaurant is closed and it was a historic landmark

44. Pioneer chicken in so cal was one of my favorites!! Every payday for mama she'd take me and my brother!! Good ol days

45. Nedick's hot dogs

46. stopped at a place called Lum's in CT on the way to vacation in Maine as a kid in the 70s. The Cheesedog is STILL the best damn hot dog I ever had

47. Howard Johnson’s was the best when I was a kid! I always got the fried clam strip dinner, and even had a HoJo birthday party at least once. It was my family’s go to stop for dinner on day trips, and I think we often stayed there when traveling as well.

48. Ritzie’s and Rax are the two i’ll always remember. I choked on a hot dog at Ritzie’s and didnt eat another hot dog for almost twenty years.

49. Correction, Billy Bob's is still it's own thing. We have one in Barboursville, WV.

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