Amigos/Kings Classic
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Amigos/Kings Classic is a small Nebraska-based fast-food chain that serves Mexican and American foods. The restaurant was founded as Amigo's in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1980. The chain was solely a Mexican fast-food restaurant until around 2000, when many locations were co-branded with A&W Restaurants. After A&W was bought by Yum! Brands, Inc. in 2002, a defunct regional burger chain, King's Classic, was revived and replaced A&W in 2003. Several locations are also open for breakfast and offer a third brand, Winchell's Donuts. For a short time, a few of the chains also held Rezato's Fast Italian, these only lasted about a year between 2004 and 2005.
Amigos/Kings Classic has over 25 locations in Nebraska, most in the eastern part of the state and/or along Interstate 80. For more information, visit *www.amigoskings.com.
[edit] King's Food Host
Before there was King's Classic there was King's Food Host, an eat-in/drive-in restaurant that opened its first location in 1955 at 66th and Cotner Boulevard in the Bethany neighborhood of Lincoln. The chain expanded in Nebraska and surrounding states before becoming defunct. A specialty of the restaurant was the Cheese Frenchee, a deep-fried cheese sandwich.
King's Food Host opened a location on Pembina Highway in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the late 1960's. There, you placed your order by telephone from your booth. That restaurant closed around 1973. It was bulldozed to make way for a Ponderosa Steak House, which opened around 1975.
