Halo Burger
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| Bill Thomas Halo Burger | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Flint, Michigan, U.S., (1923) |
| Founder | Samuel V. Blair/Bill Thomas |
| Headquarters | Flint, Michigan, United States |
| No. of locations | 10 Restaurants (2008) |
| Area served | Midwest United States |
| Industry | Fast Food |
| Products | Fast food, including hamburgers, french fries, pies, and Frozen Malts |
| Website | Haloburger.com |
Bill Thomas' Halo Burger is a fast food restaurant chain serving the Greater Flint, Michigan area.[1]
[edit] History
- see: Kewpee
Samuel V. Blair open Kewpee Hotel restaurant in downtown Flint and expanded to approxiately 200 locations by 1939 through licensing the name. In 1933, William "Bill" V. Thomas came to Flint and started working at Kewpee in 1938. Thomas began leasing the Harrison Street, Flint location from Blair upon his retirement on April 1, 1944. Blair dies in 1945 and Thomas continues to leases the location and pay royalities for use of the Kewpee name from the estate until the Kewpee trademark and Blair estate owned locations go up for sale in 1958. Thomas is able to purchase the Flint location but the Kewpee trademark goes to Ed Adams of Toledo, Ohio. Thomas's Flint Kewpee Hamburgs expands to a second location with the purchase of Vernor’s Ginger Ale building in 1951. Adams switched from a trademark license of Kewpee to to a full franchising arrangement in 1967. Thomas rejects this new arrangement and changes name of this restaurants to Bill Thomas' Halo Burger.[1] In 1979, the Harrison location was vacated to make way for University of Michigan-Flint parking.[2] The staff of the doomed Harrison Street location were transferred to a newly opened Halo Burger serving Flint's east side.[1]
Due to the new housing and 24-hour food service, Sodexho, that go along the housing, the University of Michigan-Flint University Center location closed April 21, 2008. [2]
[edit] Menu
- Q.P.: Original called the Kewpee, its current name is a phonetic of that name and has been served since 1923 and of its size, a quarter pound hamburger. The burger consisted of flat bottom bun with deluxe toppings (mayo, lettuce, tomato). This still today remains one of the Halo Burger's most popular sandwiches, especially with olives.
[edit] Awards
- 1983 Voted Flint's #1 hamburger by a Flint Journal Newspaper survey
- 2000 Voted Michigan's #1 hamburger by a Detroit News Reader Survey[3]
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Gary Flinn (2004-5-21). A Tasty Part of Flint History. Flinn's Journal. Gary Flinn. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ a b Christy Ryan. "Halo Burger reluctant to leave in fall" (shtml), Michigan Times, Flint, Michigan: University of Michigan-Flint, 2008-04-21. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
- ^ Dave. Restaurants of Interest. Cuisine, A Semi-Exhaustive Guide. Frog Leg Productions. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
