Fast Food Restaurants

Fast food restaurants focus on the timely manner you receive your food as well as low cost above all things. Your food is ordered from a counter or a drive-through window. The dinnerware that you receive for your food is disposal. These are often national chains such as Chick-Fil-A and Wendy’s.

On this site, you can choose any restaurant by their type, food type,  or by the night kids eat free. You can also search for any restaurant by their name on the right side of the page  More restaurants are being added each day so check back soon if you don’t see one.

Steak ‘n Shake

Steak ‘n Shake

Gus Belt owned a Shell gas station in Normal, Il in the 1930’s and was looking for ways to increase revenue. He began offering customers chicken, coleslaw, and beer. When the local community started to…

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza was becoming a trend in American culture in the 1950s, and two brothers from Kansas decided to get in on the action. Dan & Frank Carney chose to borrow $600 from their mom and…

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Culver’s

Culver’s

The restaurant business was in the genes of Craig Culver when he was born. His parents, George and Ruth, had owned three restaurants, one of which Craig turned into the first Culver’s in 1984 after…

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Captain D’s

Captain D’s

Captain D’s traces its origin back to Nashville, TN in 1969 when a man named Raymond Danner opened the first restaurant.  The first restaurant at that time was called “Mr. D’s Seafood and Hamburgers” (Danner).…

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Zaxby’s

Zaxby’s

Driving around most neighborhoods in America, you will often find teenagers out playing basketball, few of them are talking about opening up a restaurant, and even fewer than that go on to do it, much…

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Villa Italian Kitchen

Villa Italian Kitchen

There isn’t a story here to be found, not at least in my research. The founder, Michele “Michael” Scotto came from Italy with some Italian pizza recipes and opened a store in New York City…

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In-N-Out

In-N-Out

The husband and wife team of Harry and Esther began in a southern California with a stand not much bigger than that of a lemonade stand. Harry was an innovator though and brought to us…

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