Burger Chef Commercial

[yogafan6500]

Incrediburger.

[imthedorf1964]

Anybody know who did Burger Chef's voice. It sounds really familiar.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Why do so many cheaply-animated things feature at least one character doing over-exaggerated arm movements? (often towards the "camera")

[kmgex]

Count Fangburger seems like a bit of an ass.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

It appears that I was wrong. Just found a fan site, and it appears that the closest one to where I live now was 21 minutes from my house.

I do not remember Burger Chef at all. Don't even remember seeing one commercial, like this one, on television. According to another poster, they closed between 1983 and 1984. That would have made me 12 and 13 at the time.

When I was a kid, I remember BK, McDonald's and Jack in the Box in my hometown. Wendy's came a little later on.

[firefoxy2010]

Fang's A Lot. Lol

[elc1960]

How "INCREDIBURGIBLE" is this?

[boofdfast]

I remember Burger Chef burgers were wrapped in clear plastic sandwich baggies, with Burger Chef written on them. Gee, thanks for making my burger soggy, by the time it gets to the table, lames. lol

[acholl980]

That's got Depatie-Freleng written all over it

[Sheri451]

They had Burger Chef in NC

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

Must be a west coast regional burger joint. Never seen one here in New England.

[lowellriggsiam]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA They all closed between 1983 & 1984.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@lowellriggsiam Doesn't matter to me. lol The franchise wasn't in my area.

[lowellriggsiam]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA All is well, they were bought out by Hardees, I haven't got one of them.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@lowellriggsiam There isn't even a Hardees in New England. lol According to their website, their closest restaurant is a Roy Rogers in New York (I'm in New Hampshire).

[lowellriggsiam]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA What I want is a Tony Romas it has the best food (and it's not fast food).

[liamlunchtray]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA They were all over New England. Most became Burger Kings.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@liamlunchtray We have a Burger King in town, but it came into town when I was a little kid as Burger King.

[elc1960]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA I lived in the Springfield Ma/Hartford CT area at the time these Burger Chef ads aired. We had some of them out there; Westfield MA had one that I remember.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@elc1960 I've lived in southern New Hampshire all my life. We never had them here.

[FabFM]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA At one stage they were the second largest burger chain in the USA behind McDs!

[trainerdad]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA Actually, I grew up in western Massachusetts, Pittsfield, and we had one there. I remember that in my head Burger Chef was the biggest, McDonalds was second and then there was this crappy joint called Burger King which was some terrible rip off of Burger Chef. How quickly all that changed in the early '80's.

[lowellriggsiam]

@trainerdad, Frank Thomas was president of Saniserve and created the predicessor to the broiler, then called the "insta-broiler". He saw the potential and used the broiler he developed for Burger King to beat them at their own game.

[FabFM]

@lowellriggsiam The last one closed in 1996.

[liamlunchtray]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA They were all over New England actually. When they folded most became Burger Kings and a few turned into Hardees. Hardees pulled out of New England entirely after only a year or two. I live in RI and there are still Burger Chef buildings all over the place.

[liamlunchtray]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA

[royalfuzziness]

My aunt used to work at the burger chef in Wausau WI.

[odog65]

anyone interested in reviving this place should e-mail river west brands site

and let them know that you support them in their case against hardees and tell

them I want my burger chef. and let hardees know that your mad and that they

should requinlish any rights of it to see case go to wikipedia and search burger chef

and click the first external link

[GenXer68]

The good old days when burgers went strait from the grill to the customer and not to some fucking steam drawer or had the shit microwaved out of it before you got to touch it.

[prsbrake102]

The voice of Burger Chef sounds alot like the guy who did Tigger's voice from Winnie the Pooh

[Scarletspeedster68]

You are correct as that was the voice of Paul Winchell (who is best known as Gargamel from the Smurfs as well as Tigger from Winnie The Pooh). God bless his soul.

[SteveCarras]

I thought JIM CUMMINGS was Tigger. (LOL!)

[acholl980]

@SteveCarras That was after Winchell retired.

[elc1960]

@acholl980 As I remember, the last time Paul Winchell played Tigger was in "The Tigger Movie" in 1999 - he once invented a prototype artificial heart, from what I understand.

[cmp46225]

Bring back Burger Chef!

[Scarletspeedster68]

I definitely remember Burger Chef as there were three locations in my town. Man, they had better burgers than McDonald's!

[brendarox2006]

Yep, this was definately the '60s...Color by DeAcid

[majorcana]

Ah, the joys of Eastmancolor film stock -- a quick fade to RED! My memory is probably faulty, but it sure seemed like all of the 16mm educational films I saw in school were printed on that same crappy, fast-fading stock. I'm surprised that my rods and cones survived intact.

[acidtones1]

Even my baby pictures taken in 1979 are all red now and have been that way for at least 20 years.

[Scarletspeedster68]

Try the mid 1970s. Lol

[alwrig]

Wow, I loved Burger Chef!

I believe Hardee's bought them out around 1980, then replaced some locations as Hardee's restaurants and closed other locations.

Sad, though. I really miss the Chef...

[Scarletspeedster68]

Me too! :( Lol

[acidtones1]

1984 I think was the exact year.

[meesterfonnyboy]

There was the first in a series of Fangburger spots - one with Frankenburger, one with his whole "fang-mily", and so forth - and he became so popular he was a featured premium in FunMeal boxes. Yes, Fangburger rules!

[Tyrsca]

I do remember fondly the $1 Big Chef combo I used to get on my way home from school.

[zoesdaddy1]

BC had happy meals before McDonalds did

[Scarletspeedster68]

Actually, they were called Funmeals, but they did come before McDonald's.

[zoesdaddy1]

true, good catch. too bad they went down the tubes.

[MotoRooter]

Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain that started in 1954, and lasted until 1996.

In 1954, Frank and Donald Thomas patented the Flame Broiler and started one of their own restaurants in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was under another name, but in 1956, they changed the name to Burger Chef. In the late-1950s, they created the first "value combos" as a burger, fries, and soft drink for 45¢ (50¢ with a milkshake).

[littlebritain1]

Thanks for the info. I'm on the West Coast, but don't remember ever seeing a Burger Chef. Kinda sad they went out business.

[littlebritain1]

I don't remember Burger Chef. Where they on the West Coast, and are they still around?

[MotoRooter]

Burger Chef was enormously popular and spread across both West Coast and East Coast, eventually becoming second only to McDonald's in terms of number of locations.

[kazekirifx]

I declare Count Fangburger to be the greatest villain of all time.

[fed514]

sweet Jesus....

[digital2500]

Too many good memories!!!

[boobooboris]

FANGS ALOT