Fatburger
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| Type | Franchise |
| Founded | Los Angeles, California, USA (1952) |
| Headquarters | Several locations throughout Canada and the US |
| Key people | Lovie Yancey |
| Industry | Fast food restaurants |
| Products | burgers, french fries, soft drinks & milkshakes |
| Website | www.fatburger.com |
Fatburger is a fast-food restaurant chain that operates in the United States and Canada and uses the slogan The Last Great Hamburger Stand. It is especially popular on the West Coast. While a fast food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order.
The chain remained mostly a California chain until the late 1990s, when it began a significant expansion in North America. There are currently 93 Fatburger restaurants.
Former professional basketball player Magic Johnson and Montel Williams are some of the owners of the parent company[1]. Bay Area rapper E-40 also has a stake in the company as a franchise owner, and played a key role in bringing the first Fatburger restaurant to Northern California[citation needed]. On August 15, 2003, Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc., owned by Andrew Wiederhorn, completed a $6 million investment and financing package for Fatburger Holdings, Inc. ("Fatburger"). Fatburger operates or franchises 93 hamburger stands located in California, Nebraska, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, Louisiana, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, New York, Canada, and China.
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[edit] Atmosphere
Customers are given a number after ordering, and food and milkshakes are delivered to the customers' table. A distinctive feature of the chain is that burgers can be ordered fried or flame grilled at the customer's request. Customers are given the choice of skinny fries, fat fries, or onion rings.
Each Fatburger location has a jukebox; patrons choose songs from a catalog of popular hits that are then played for free. Song choices are put in queue; however a patron can insert a nominal fee into the jukebox in order to "jump the queue," and have their song played immediately after the current one.
[edit] History
Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey in Los Angeles, California in 1952. Ms. Yancey died on 26 January 2008, according to Fatburger's parent owner, Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc.
[edit] Cultural references
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- Was featured in the 1995 spoof movie Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood
- Is one of Ice Cube's favorite places, and is mentioned in his 1993 single It Was a Good Day.
- "Getting a Fatburger" was a common expression used by Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom, Sanford and Son.
- Tom Green has been known to mention Fatburger in a number of his songs. Such as "write rhymes and act like an a**hole"
- Was mentioned in the film The Fast and the Furious (2001 film) where Vince gets into a fight with Brian O'Conner in order to go there instead of Torreto's store
- Is mentioned in "Goin Back to Cali" on Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 album "Life After Death" "If I wanna squirt her/ take her to Fatburger/"
- Is the late-night hangout for the guys in the movie Heartbreakers.
- Made David Letterman's Top Ten List for things he'd miss most about leaving Los Angeles.
- Was featured in one of the Lethal Weapon movies
- The inside of Fatburgers's Palm Springs, CA location was used to film the FatAssBurger scene for the 2006 movie Phat Girlz.
- Whenever you put money into the tip jar, the cashier will yell "Fat Tip!"
- According to TMZ.com[2], Queen Latifah is opening a Fatburger franchise in Miami.
- In the Beastie Boys song "The New Style", Mike D says "I chill at White Castle 'cause it's the best/But I fly at Fatburger when I'm way out west!"
- In an interview, Matt LeBlanc mentioned that he used to work at Fatburger in New York City.
- On the Carol Burnett show she spoofed the movie Mildred Pierce and "Mildred Fierce" as she was called in the spoof opened a chain of restaurants called "Fatburgers"
- Poker star Phil Ivey, was seen tipping a Sapphire cocktail server a $1,000 chip to fetch a Fatburger from the Fatburgermobile that's parked outside the club for late-night snackers. Source: www.lvrj.com/news/14309792.html
[edit] Locations
[edit] Canada
- British Columbia (5)
- Alberta (2)
[edit] United States
- Arizona (6)
- California (41)
- Colorado (4)
- Florida (2)
- Georgia (1)
- Louisiana (1)
- Michigan (1)
- Nevada (11)
- New Jersey (3)
- New York (2)
- Ohio (3)
*Mayfield Heights *Garfield Heights *North Olmstead
- Pennsylvania (2)
- Texas (1)
- Virginia (1)
- Washington (4)
- Nebraska
[edit] Greater China
- Hong Kong (1, Upcoming)
- Macau (1, The Venetian Macao Casino Resort)
