Damn I feel like I'm 100 years old watching this! I remember this damn commercial, it's like two lives ago! I didn't get the posters but me and my brother got all the Pizza Hut Star Wars glasses if anyone is old enough to remember that promo. To think George Lucas got all that merchendising money!!! If you were alive back then, you will remember they had Star Wars everything except condoms!
Wow, me and my friends still wax nostalgically about things like burger chef. We had them in Cincinnati Ohio , but they closed in the mid 80's. They were awesome. They had a salad bar too. I can't believe reading there was one up until 1996! We sure woulda gone! It's a shame such amazing things and places have to go away
I read on winikipea that the last Burger Chef resteraunt closed in 1996. General Foods who owned the chain decided in the 1980s that it was no longer in their outline and sold most of their stores to the owners of the Hardees chain and some former Burger Chef resteraunt buildings still exist as Hardees. Some of the other Burger Chefs were sold to other chains as well.
I remember this advertisement and how the posters sold out very quickly. I had 2 of the Darth Vader posters but my little sister being the brat she was tore both of them and I never could find anymore because they sold out fast!
Hope Violet dont run out of posters before Vader gets to the counter!
Sorry Vader we are all sold ou....ack!..ack!...ack!... cant breath!!!!
@Kart00nHead Wow, that's a pretty ridiculous statement if I'm reading you correctly. Are you trying to say Star Wars "sold out" as a brand? You obviously weren't around when it came out, laddy buck. It was EVERY FUCKING WHERE. Little shit probably never heard of Burger Chef in your entire 8 year span of consciousness, either.
@jwhiteout It was my impression that humility correlates with age, and arrogance correlates inversely with age. But that can't be true because you think it's ok to come on here and have a go at someone you don't know, for no reason whatsoever. Go fuck yourself (or alternatively one of your relatives) you useless fuckin' hick.
@Kart00nHead After Jaws came out the concept of the "summer blockbuster" was introduced. It was the beginning of mass cross promotion. In other words movies- particularly Star Wars- were MADE that way. It's so pervasive now we don't even notice it. And it doesn't work anymore either. I know being hatched recently you likely tend to look at the world through some sort of rose colored idealistic blinders you think are microscopes. But Star Wars was never an "Underground" thing. And you're a dummy.
@jwhiteout I know it was never an underground thing, that's why I said they sold out as soon as they were on the scene. Stop contradicting yourself, you seriously need to get debating lessons because you're agreeing with me, and having a go at me for it. You call me young (I'm 21 by the way, you jealous old fagot) and you come on here like a little kid looking for arguments.
@Kart00nHead Are you even familiar with what the term "sell out" means? It doesn't seem like you are. And yeah,WTMP hit it on the head: you are painfully pretentious. As far as my being an "old faggot", you missed the boat, honey. You were still fingering your mother's asshole when I saw Radiohead. You're so far outclassed, arguing with you is like boxing with a paraplegic. Also, if being a child is the most interesting thing about you, then you're pretty unremarkable. Silly euro-trash pompon.
@jwhiteout I've had a look back in these comments and I'm far from the first person to use the term 'sell out'. I think it's YOU who doesn't understand what it means. Anyway, debate over, I don't have anymore time for you or your pathetic vendeta against the younger, fitter and more able.
@Kart00nHead What about pretentiousness? Any ideas on that? Seems like you were trying to make some sense of things and then you just started spazzing out and pounding your keyboard. I have to side with the other guy, regardless of whether he's a big mouth or not.
@jwhiteout well, it's not really a ridiculous statement as you've just contradicted yourself....."It was EVERY FUCKING WHERE." kind of implies they did in fact sell out,
Burger Chef may not have been in all parts of the country, but I can say they went out of business in 1989, and most former Burger Chef locations are now Hardees (who took over the company and still sell a sandwich called the Big Shef).
WOW....I wish i was born erlyer to see the original Star Wars movie on the big screens and get a free poster with my drink....thats if they did the deal in the UK
Did they ever have Burger Chef in the UK? I was there when I was eight years old and I remember a lot of American companies that had branches there. So, for all I know, maybe Burger Chef was one of them.
i dunno why but as soon as darth vader is shown stepping through the door i immediately imagine him saying "can i get a large fry in this motherfucker"
the burger chief franchise was started by the dude that invented the flame broiler. i loved the top chef without. i put four thousand pickles on it and got screamed at by my drunken mother. this incedent ruined my life and i commited my first murder because of it.
Fleur & McKinley! Holy Cow! That's here in Des Moines, Iowa! This Burger Chef commercial must have been playing on a station in Des Moines when it was recorded!
(btw: this is my wife's acct, I hijacked it so that I could post my spontaneous reaction of surprise and delight to this being Des Moines...and lest anyone suspect otherwise, yes, yes, I know the commercial probably wasn't actually done in Des Moines, only that whoever captured this recording was in Des Moines at the time.)
@Mortskcab so did the makers of "Phantasm" since they made the Tall Man's minions look like them (don't get me wrong, I loved "Phantasm" but they can't convince me that "Star Wars" wasn't at least a little influential on them)
@Brambleiah - and I believe you are right. I looked at her and knew she was someone notable, but I could not put my finger on it. Now that you suggested as much, I don't need to try and figure it out.
When I was a young kid in South Florida during the late 1970's, Burger Chef was quite popular. I collected the Star Wars posters too, but they're long gone now. My favorite part about BC was the fixings bar where you could load up your burger with all your favorite condiments. Remember those little paper cups you could use to fill up with ketchup or whatever else you wanted? I think they went out of business because I ate up all their pickles!
Burger Chef doesn't exist anymore. They were an early competitor of McDonald's and Burger King. AS others have said, the design in the posters is the same as those used on the Burger King glasses. I guess BC got the posters, BK got the glasses!
When Star Wars opened in 1977, nobody expected it to be a hit, so there was very little merchandising done during that summer. Most of it were things that could be made fast, like posters and glasses. The toys didn't show up until 1978.
@NicksEvilTwin1 Yup, I lived in Indiana as a small girl during the late 70's (I was born in Greensburg). Burger Chef was by FAR my favorite place to eat. I miss that, the Uncle Al show, and Choc-ola. *sigh*
@SCVKMT To get to a Burger Chef and get a poster, you have to get a time machine and travel back to the 70's, preferably to the midwest region of the U.S. (sorry... I'm sad about it too). :)
@rcandle08 looks like her ....Denise Nickerson who also played Amy Jennings on Dark Shadows ..and later she was the "The Electric Co." I do think your right that is her.
Brger Chef was the best-you got your burger plain, then you went to the fixings bar and then you built your burger your way. extra extra onions mmmmmmmm
That was her alright! Don't recall the Star Wars posters but we had a complete set of King Kong glasses that i'm sure was Burger Chef. Alas we broke 'em all.
I wish that Burger Chef restaurant will come to San Diego, California in a good week, 2012. And I've wish to visit Burger Chef in Mission Valley! As a welcome back!
@42whatelse sorry...Burger Chef no longer exists it was a fast food hamburger Chain Based out of Indianapolis and was absorbed by the Hardees Hamburger chain in 1983
@GeekBoy03 Hardee's also bought out Roy Rogers Restaurant if I'm not mistaken. I saw a lot of Hardee's/Roy Rogers chains while I was staying at Baltimore for the Pope's visit in 1994.
@gibbick Yes and there were lots of them. You can thank competor Hardees for buying it out and closing them down. Never eaten at that crap hole since.
@gibbick Hey, I don't think Burger Chef was in Texas, but at that time I live in New Mexico and we had them there. Moved to Dallas in 1980...didn't find any here.
I worked at a "Burger Chef" for a few months back in the early '80's. The thing is, the "Saturday Night Crowd" actually looked like the guys in the background in this commercial. About 11:30 PM, the Multiplex Cinema across the street would let out its last showing of "Friday the 13th Part Whatever," and the teenage mutants would come lurching into the Burger Chef grunting, "Want food! Now!" They would then sit and munch down a dozen burgers, sometimes without taking them out of the box first.
Great commercial, especially for the time period. I LOVED Burger Chef with their "Works Bar" where you could put as many toppings on your burger as you wanted to. The Burger Chef that I used to go to in Utica, Michigan... even had a special where you could get a plain burger for 10 cents. We would get 10 for a buck and then load 'em up at the Works Bar!! Man... those were the days!!
Ya, that's right... I had read somewhere that "Mego" was supposed to get the Star Wars line of toys, but the "Mego" spokesman was late for the meeting, or something along those lines... I remember reading the story in an issue of Action Figure Digest.
Kenner too was a 3rd or 4th tier toy co until loomis signed them up, mattel hasbro and mego all took a pass on perhsp the greatest action figure toy line ever.
Burger King was never known as Burger Chef. They were two different companies. The only thing they shared was the flame broiling machine. The original idea of it came from the founder of Burger King, and it was created by the founder of Burger Chef. The two companies started in different locations, so competition wasn't an issue. Burger King was in Florida, and Burger Chef was started in Indianapolis.
Hard to believe there was a time when the STAR WARS franchise had to go with a third rate fast food place like Burger Chef to do a tie-in! I had all those posters!
happened on nov 17th 1978.. 4 kids were kidnapped and shot/stbbed and beaten to death. no one was ever caught.. it was pretty scary. i never hear dof it either. i wonder if it was on unsolved mystries before?
To me, Burger Chef will forever be steeped in tragedy. It was the same year that 4 Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef employees, ages 17-20 were kidnapped from the restaurant, then killed execution style in a wooded area. The killers were never found. Sorry to bring down the posts, but from then on, I find it difficult to not think of that chain without referring to that senseless crime.
Great commercial! We never had a Burger Chef around here, but tons of Burger King and McDonald's. I managed to save some of the Star Wars ("Return of the Jedi") Burger King glasses and all of the cards and stickers of the early 1980's "Everybody Wins Game" that Burger King had when "Th Empire Strikes Back" came out.
is r2-d2 or c-3po going to drink the soda? i remember this commercial, and I had one of those posters (the darth vader one I think) wish I had kept it, and I wish burger chef was still in business! liked them way better than mcdonald's!
BC rocked. and i had all four of those little posters! man, i wish i still had them. then again, i wish i had most of my star wars junk from back then. seems i only kept the crap that's next to worthless now.
I had the Darth Vader and Chewbacca posters; I could kick myself in the ass for not keeping them! Remember, at this time "Star Wars" was a new movie. BC was great; we had one the city in Indiana where I grew up. It was the first place I remember where you could get your burger "with" or "without" and put whatever you liked on it. Our BC sold out in 1983. A local chain bought it, and then a few years after that it became a KFC. Hardee's isn't a patch on BC, IMO.
Damn I feel like I'm 100 years old watching this! I remember this damn commercial, it's like two lives ago! I didn't get the posters but me and my brother got all the Pizza Hut Star Wars glasses if anyone is old enough to remember that promo. To think George Lucas got all that merchendising money!!! If you were alive back then, you will remember they had Star Wars everything except condoms!
lamareaton 3 days ago
I own the one with luke. Very rare. My uncle gave it to me.
Jvader15 1 week ago
Wow, me and my friends still wax nostalgically about things like burger chef. We had them in Cincinnati Ohio , but they closed in the mid 80's. They were awesome. They had a salad bar too. I can't believe reading there was one up until 1996! We sure woulda gone! It's a shame such amazing things and places have to go away
speedoluver 1 month ago
Cool, lol. Funny, Vader created C-3PO, lol. {:-p
mechaghostman2 3 months ago
Actually...Burger Chef turned into Hardee’s....and now their dead too...LOL
I have all of these poster...so awesome!!!!
Rahxn 4 months ago
@Rahxn ...Hardees is still around, they just suck now
ViciousAlienKlown 3 months ago
I didn't recognize her without the gum chewing and blue complexion.
lincbond442 6 months ago
I read on winikipea that the last Burger Chef resteraunt closed in 1996. General Foods who owned the chain decided in the 1980s that it was no longer in their outline and sold most of their stores to the owners of the Hardees chain and some former Burger Chef resteraunt buildings still exist as Hardees. Some of the other Burger Chefs were sold to other chains as well.
beatleman69 6 months ago
There was one in Poland, Ohio back in the 1970s when I was a little boy, I loved eating there. It and the building are long gone now. Sad.
beatleman69 6 months ago 2
Burger Chef died around 1980 - we had one in Muskegon, MI for years - when the 80's started I didnt see any around anymore
tedcantu1 6 months ago
Burger Chef? Where did these exist?
MrCorporalTunnel 6 months ago
@MrCorporalTunnel in the midwest-indiana had them
ULTRADREW1 6 months ago
@MrCorporalTunnel
We had them in Texas. I do miss 'em. I could kick Hardee's butt for murdering them.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
0:21 he'll need a tray.
totnesmartin 7 months ago
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totnesmartin 7 months ago
Burger chef?
koosalakoopakoop 8 months ago 2
I remember this advertisement and how the posters sold out very quickly. I had 2 of the Darth Vader posters but my little sister being the brat she was tore both of them and I never could find anymore because they sold out fast!
Hope Violet dont run out of posters before Vader gets to the counter!
Sorry Vader we are all sold ou....ack!..ack!...ack!... cant breath!!!!
RatBatSpiderCrab 8 months ago
Smart moves on Burger Chef's part back in the day, but after that BK and Mickey D made sure to crush 'em into dust.
BradiKal61 8 months ago
i got those 4 posters
wordlofwarfan 8 months ago
that large is half a small now.
Tcubed94 9 months ago 8
There was a Burger Chef in my town a long time ago. Its now a McDonalds in the building.
Heavyweightchampionx 9 months ago
Oh wow, so the Star Wars brand sold old pretty much as soon as it hit the market.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
@Kart00nHead Wow, that's a pretty ridiculous statement if I'm reading you correctly. Are you trying to say Star Wars "sold out" as a brand? You obviously weren't around when it came out, laddy buck. It was EVERY FUCKING WHERE. Little shit probably never heard of Burger Chef in your entire 8 year span of consciousness, either.
jwhiteout 9 months ago
@jwhiteout It was my impression that humility correlates with age, and arrogance correlates inversely with age. But that can't be true because you think it's ok to come on here and have a go at someone you don't know, for no reason whatsoever. Go fuck yourself (or alternatively one of your relatives) you useless fuckin' hick.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
@Kart00nHead After Jaws came out the concept of the "summer blockbuster" was introduced. It was the beginning of mass cross promotion. In other words movies- particularly Star Wars- were MADE that way. It's so pervasive now we don't even notice it. And it doesn't work anymore either. I know being hatched recently you likely tend to look at the world through some sort of rose colored idealistic blinders you think are microscopes. But Star Wars was never an "Underground" thing. And you're a dummy.
jwhiteout 9 months ago
@jwhiteout I know it was never an underground thing, that's why I said they sold out as soon as they were on the scene. Stop contradicting yourself, you seriously need to get debating lessons because you're agreeing with me, and having a go at me for it. You call me young (I'm 21 by the way, you jealous old fagot) and you come on here like a little kid looking for arguments.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
@Kart00nHead Are you even familiar with what the term "sell out" means? It doesn't seem like you are. And yeah,WTMP hit it on the head: you are painfully pretentious. As far as my being an "old faggot", you missed the boat, honey. You were still fingering your mother's asshole when I saw Radiohead. You're so far outclassed, arguing with you is like boxing with a paraplegic. Also, if being a child is the most interesting thing about you, then you're pretty unremarkable. Silly euro-trash pompon.
jwhiteout 9 months ago
@jwhiteout I've had a look back in these comments and I'm far from the first person to use the term 'sell out'. I think it's YOU who doesn't understand what it means. Anyway, debate over, I don't have anymore time for you or your pathetic vendeta against the younger, fitter and more able.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
@Kart00nHead Oh sure, because lord knows a WHOLE BUNCH of people are never wrong. Dumb ass.
jwhiteout 9 months ago
@Kart00nHead What about pretentiousness? Any ideas on that? Seems like you were trying to make some sense of things and then you just started spazzing out and pounding your keyboard. I have to side with the other guy, regardless of whether he's a big mouth or not.
watchthemagicpumpkin 9 months ago
@watchthemagicpumpkin Pretentiousness has nothing to do with anything, it's not even relevant. Try again.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
@jwhiteout well, it's not really a ridiculous statement as you've just contradicted yourself....."It was EVERY FUCKING WHERE." kind of implies they did in fact sell out,
kplar 9 months ago
hey sure sold out fast.....BUt WHY BURGER CHEF!!!
TheInspector3000 10 months ago
I remember that burger chef that they are referencing it was in Des Moines, Iowa on fluer drive by the blue lights oh what found memories
2hogrider 10 months ago
Uh-oh...years later Vader tracked down more of those Tuskens that killed his mom at the Burger Chef of all places!
Koldeman 10 months ago
is that Violet Beurigard off Willy Wonka or what?
125daz 11 months ago 11
@125daz lol. It would have been even funnier if she had been smacking gum.
TheAltair4 8 months ago
@125daz wow, i think your right, you got a really good eye !
tedcantu1 6 months ago
@125daz
Holy Cow! It is her!
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
I seriously want one of those posters.
jaypee4665 11 months ago
I still have my old Star Wars Burger Chef posters and a couple of the Star Wars fun meal trays.
DarthAcroyear 11 months ago
Fuck!!! I really want those posters. I still have all of my Empire Strikes Back glasses from Burger King...I know I need toget out more.
magnumshifter 11 months ago
Burger Chef may not have been in all parts of the country, but I can say they went out of business in 1989, and most former Burger Chef locations are now Hardees (who took over the company and still sell a sandwich called the Big Shef).
rnrscrapbook 1 year ago
WOW....I wish i was born erlyer to see the original Star Wars movie on the big screens and get a free poster with my drink....thats if they did the deal in the UK
magneticglass 1 year ago
@magneticglass
Did they ever have Burger Chef in the UK? I was there when I was eight years old and I remember a lot of American companies that had branches there. So, for all I know, maybe Burger Chef was one of them.
Smartboy8877 10 months ago
@Smartboy8877 Maybe, but I dont think we have a Burger Chef in the UK.
magneticglass 10 months ago
I used to eat at Burger Chef all the time in Missouri, and I think even in Minnesota!
Dulcimerist 1 year ago
@Dulcimerist yeah my dad says he had burger chefs here in minnesota
Mortskcab 11 months ago
I hate it when people call Burger King "Burger Chef".
MuggleSnuggles 1 year ago
49 cents large drink wtf i want the old days back : {
linkind21 1 year ago
@linkind21 And The Poster Too! 49 cents what a bargain.
DavidsProductions 10 months ago
what the hell is a burger chef
cappsoutlaw 1 year ago
I miss burger chef, come in at Breakfast and get served at lunch.
GTBurns48215 1 year ago
i dunno why but as soon as darth vader is shown stepping through the door i immediately imagine him saying "can i get a large fry in this motherfucker"
HRH787 1 year ago
That is violet lol! what the heck is burger chef where in the world are they?
calicuban1 1 year ago
Those were the days
mmkaviator 1 year ago
Whats Burger Chef????
Sweetystaci22 1 year ago
@Sweetystaci22 A McDonald's competitor that was popular in the 1970's.
tsntana 1 year ago
yes,I ate at Burger Chef I'm the 70's in Austin Tx.Thanks for sharing.How do you have this?
1nativeaustintexan 1 year ago
the burger chief franchise was started by the dude that invented the flame broiler. i loved the top chef without. i put four thousand pickles on it and got screamed at by my drunken mother. this incedent ruined my life and i commited my first murder because of it.
regressing2apes 1 year ago
Fleur & McKinley! Holy Cow! That's here in Des Moines, Iowa! This Burger Chef commercial must have been playing on a station in Des Moines when it was recorded!
(btw: this is my wife's acct, I hijacked it so that I could post my spontaneous reaction of surprise and delight to this being Des Moines...and lest anyone suspect otherwise, yes, yes, I know the commercial probably wasn't actually done in Des Moines, only that whoever captured this recording was in Des Moines at the time.)
ICYTR 1 year ago
I love the Jawas
Mortskcab 1 year ago
@Mortskcab so did the makers of "Phantasm" since they made the Tall Man's minions look like them (don't get me wrong, I loved "Phantasm" but they can't convince me that "Star Wars" wasn't at least a little influential on them)
prlwctd 1 year ago
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Mortskcab 1 year ago
im pretty sure that girl is the girl in the originl willy wonka who chewed a lot of gum
joeperryfan13 1 year ago
Stupid "Burger Chef" in my town never got those posters.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago
@FiendsInRedSatin1 Well, life is so unfair.
ZolotayaKoshka 1 year ago
49 cents woohoo!
clubhenco 1 year ago
AWESOME!
JohnLennon100 1 year ago
I USED TO HAVE THOSE POSTERS!
davidjradich 1 year ago
I wanted Burger Chef. At Burger King, they just gave me Twilight posters.
toysuck 1 year ago
K that would be so cool to find those posters
xxxMETALPUNXxxx 1 year ago
Never heard of this place.. Kind of sounds like a Burger King rip-off fast food joint.
WarshipAngelus 1 year ago
@WarshipAngelus Look up "Burger Chef Murders" thats what ruined thier popularity
Mortskcab 1 year ago
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JandBabyA 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure the girl actor behind the counter is Violet Blueberry girl from the original Willie Wonka!
Brambleiah 1 year ago
@Brambleiah - and I believe you are right. I looked at her and knew she was someone notable, but I could not put my finger on it. Now that you suggested as much, I don't need to try and figure it out.
fullbag50 1 year ago
Isn't that clerk girl the girl from the original Willy Wonka movie?
flamingcurent 1 year ago
@flamingcurent I think it is, it sure looks and sounds like her.... lol, that's exactly what i thought when she started talking. you read my mind.
n8tivlily 1 year ago
I had a couple of those posters. We had a Burger Chef two blocks away (Next to Fruit Ranch) in Milwaukee, WI. Great memories!!
Packerscorner 1 year ago
@Packerscorner I worked at Burger Chef on 27 and Wis. from 1979 to 1983. And I loved it.
JandBabyA 1 year ago
Was this considered the 1st movie tie-in with a fast food chain? I wish i could have tried out Burger Chef back then.
TimelordR 1 year ago
@TimelordR
Ai, same here.
From what I know, they were among the first to do a Star Wars-related items
They did however pioneer the idea of happy meals. They did what were known as, "fun meals". Here, you can read more about it on wikipedia
MQnoob 1 year ago
Choc-ola mmmmmmm waaaaaay better than yoo-hoo
NicksEvilTwin1 1 year ago
I have never heard of this place
Wheeljack35 1 year ago
When I was a young kid in South Florida during the late 1970's, Burger Chef was quite popular. I collected the Star Wars posters too, but they're long gone now. My favorite part about BC was the fixings bar where you could load up your burger with all your favorite condiments. Remember those little paper cups you could use to fill up with ketchup or whatever else you wanted? I think they went out of business because I ate up all their pickles!
Awesome commercial! Thanks, WookieCookie!
CenobiteQueen 1 year ago
Burger Chef doesn't exist anymore. They were an early competitor of McDonald's and Burger King. AS others have said, the design in the posters is the same as those used on the Burger King glasses. I guess BC got the posters, BK got the glasses!
When Star Wars opened in 1977, nobody expected it to be a hit, so there was very little merchandising done during that summer. Most of it were things that could be made fast, like posters and glasses. The toys didn't show up until 1978.
Sueb18631 1 year ago
Those are the same exact posters you got from Burger King
chefwindu 1 year ago
Burger Chef was founded in Indianapolis, Ind. 1954 and somewhere about 1983 was bought by Hardee's Burger Chef was without a DOUBT THE BEST
NicksEvilTwin1 1 year ago
@NicksEvilTwin1 Yup, I lived in Indiana as a small girl during the late 70's (I was born in Greensburg). Burger Chef was by FAR my favorite place to eat. I miss that, the Uncle Al show, and Choc-ola. *sigh*
crazysingingchick 1 year ago
wow im old
manta5x 1 year ago
Is Buger Chef in Texas
SCVKMT 1 year ago
WOW a soda for 49 cents ?
SCVKMT 1 year ago
How Do you get to Burger Chef and get a poster
SCVKMT 1 year ago
@SCVKMT To get to a Burger Chef and get a poster, you have to get a time machine and travel back to the 70's, preferably to the midwest region of the U.S. (sorry... I'm sad about it too). :)
crazysingingchick 1 year ago
I remember this promo!! I had the poster with Chewbacca on it..haha good ole Burger Chef!
jamdude13 1 year ago
Burger Chef ?????? Where was this at ??
JeffsRareVids 1 year ago
omg the burger king woman is the girl from charlie and the chocalet factory, violet, from the original.
rcandle08 1 year ago 25
@rcandle08
have you confirmed this anywhere? i've been all over the interwebz and i can't find a confirmation, but i swear that's her too!
udanax19 1 year ago
@rcandle08 looks like her ....Denise Nickerson who also played Amy Jennings on Dark Shadows ..and later she was the "The Electric Co." I do think your right that is her.
Pattonfrodo 11 months ago
@rcandle08 omg, it is
SuperToybox123 6 months ago
Brger Chef was the best-you got your burger plain, then you went to the fixings bar and then you built your burger your way. extra extra onions mmmmmmmm
fruitportcat 1 year ago
A large Coke for 49 cents, now that really was the good old days.
Sheri451 1 year ago
What's Burger Chef? I never heard of it.
PalkiaLegends 1 year ago
@PalkiaLegends It's now named Burger King.
Armondo17 1 year ago
im 15 why cant theses time be like the 70s and 80s cheap stuff
good music etc
markdukes13 1 year ago
I remember I got all the posters but the one I wanted, the Darth Vader, they were out of it, I cried like a baby, it was the end of the world.
MerkinMuffly 1 year ago
Yeah, that's Violet Beauregarde! The late Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson (father of P.T. Andersaon and former "Voice of ABC") is doing the voice overs.
kknopp01 1 year ago
It is too bad that Burger Chef went out of business as there were a great fast food chain! We have been invaded by McDonald's all over the USA,
patsaxon 1 year ago
@TheDaviniumXX I remember Hardees,but not Burger Chef in Dallas. Maybe I didn't get out much. My parents locked me up.
gibbick 1 year ago
a drink for 49 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
supersimsboy 1 year ago
@supersimsboy And not to notice tht she said it was a large!!!!
supersimsboy 1 year ago
@supersimsboy gasoline was going for 76¢ a gallon so go figure...
terry1919 1 year ago
@terry1919 man those where the days before i was even though of or born at that!
supersimsboy 1 year ago
That was her alright! Don't recall the Star Wars posters but we had a complete set of King Kong glasses that i'm sure was Burger Chef. Alas we broke 'em all.
arthurteagarden 1 year ago
OMG is that Violet Beauregarde????
sevendram 1 year ago 7
I wish that Burger Chef restaurant will come to San Diego, California in a good week, 2012. And I've wish to visit Burger Chef in Mission Valley! As a welcome back!
42whatelse 1 year ago
@42whatelse sorry...Burger Chef no longer exists it was a fast food hamburger Chain Based out of Indianapolis and was absorbed by the Hardees Hamburger chain in 1983
terry1919 1 year ago
I miss the place. There is an onld BC building that has been convertiend into a chinese buffet not too far from where I grew up here in Tulsa.
ltrich50 1 year ago
Burger Chef was in Ohio when i was a kid, there was very few Burger Kings in the area at that time, once Burger King moved in, Burger Chef was gone.
MULTO1965 2 years ago
I still have the complete set of posters. :)
Buckeye67 2 years ago
What the hell was a burger chef?!!? Were they in Texas?
gibbick 2 years ago 17
@gibbick It's now named Burger King
Armondo17 1 year ago
@Armondo17 This is not true. Burger Chef and Burger KIng were two different companies
Hieronymus14 1 year ago
@gibbick I am from Ohio and we had Burger Chef. The company went defunct around 1981.
Hieronymus14 1 year ago
@Hieronymus14 no, the location in your area went defunct. Hardees bought them out and closed them all down and finished in 1996
GeekBoy03 1 year ago
@GeekBoy03 Hardee's also bought out Roy Rogers Restaurant if I'm not mistaken. I saw a lot of Hardee's/Roy Rogers chains while I was staying at Baltimore for the Pope's visit in 1994.
ch20stn 5 months ago
@Hieronymus14 Nope Wikipedia says the last Burger Chef closed in Indiana in 1996
Mortskcab 1 year ago
@Mortskcab I was speaking of Burger Chef in my home town.
Hieronymus14 1 year ago
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@gibbick I am from Ohio and we had Burger Chef. The company went defunct around 1981.
Hieronymus14 1 year ago
@gibbick It happened to be a BK ripoff!
HarryPotter87 1 year ago
@HarryPotter87 Actually Burger Chef was around before BK.
GeekBoy03 1 year ago
@HarryPotter87 Also...Burger Chef was the first fast food place to offer flame broiled burgers
GeekBoy03 1 year ago
@gibbick Yes and there were lots of them. You can thank competor Hardees for buying it out and closing them down. Never eaten at that crap hole since.
GeekBoy03 1 year ago
@gibbick
pre runner to burger king
JD1010101110 1 year ago
@gibbick I know they were in Michigan.
brianpadraic 1 year ago
@gibbick Look up "Burger Chef murders" it is basicly what ruined the franchise
Mortskcab 1 year ago
@gibbick Hey, I don't think Burger Chef was in Texas, but at that time I live in New Mexico and we had them there. Moved to Dallas in 1980...didn't find any here.
joey75220 1 year ago
Won't see those prices today anywhere.
VirgilB01 2 years ago 2
I worked at a "Burger Chef" for a few months back in the early '80's. The thing is, the "Saturday Night Crowd" actually looked like the guys in the background in this commercial. About 11:30 PM, the Multiplex Cinema across the street would let out its last showing of "Friday the 13th Part Whatever," and the teenage mutants would come lurching into the Burger Chef grunting, "Want food! Now!" They would then sit and munch down a dozen burgers, sometimes without taking them out of the box first.
RSLindsay 2 years ago
HaHa!
ar4216 2 years ago
@bvilleborn Back then we thought it was. That was an hour's pay at most jobs in 1977. For real!
RubHerSoul1 2 years ago
JAWAS!!! That means the vid is awesome!!!!
Kyno1407 2 years ago 2
Is that Willy Wonka's Violet Beauregard (Denise Nickerson) there at the counter?
winterarcadia 2 years ago
@winterarcadia Yeah, i think it is! Or maybe it's her younger sister.
RubHerSoul1 2 years ago
YEP!!!
augustgames 2 years ago
Sounds like A LOT of people still have those "Burger Chef" Star Wars posters... I still have mine!!
segafan7 2 years ago
Great commercial, especially for the time period. I LOVED Burger Chef with their "Works Bar" where you could put as many toppings on your burger as you wanted to. The Burger Chef that I used to go to in Utica, Michigan... even had a special where you could get a plain burger for 10 cents. We would get 10 for a buck and then load 'em up at the Works Bar!! Man... those were the days!!
segafan7 2 years ago
Ya, that's right... I had read somewhere that "Mego" was supposed to get the Star Wars line of toys, but the "Mego" spokesman was late for the meeting, or something along those lines... I remember reading the story in an issue of Action Figure Digest.
segafan7 2 years ago
Kenner too was a 3rd or 4th tier toy co until loomis signed them up, mattel hasbro and mego all took a pass on perhsp the greatest action figure toy line ever.
crb4059 2 years ago
BTW, Burger Chef was not third rate. They were the number two chain, only slightly behind McDonald's but far ahead of Burger King.
Azcardnlz 2 years ago 3
Burger King was never known as Burger Chef. They were two different companies. The only thing they shared was the flame broiling machine. The original idea of it came from the founder of Burger King, and it was created by the founder of Burger Chef. The two companies started in different locations, so competition wasn't an issue. Burger King was in Florida, and Burger Chef was started in Indianapolis.
Azcardnlz 2 years ago
Burger Chef?!? When was Burger King called Burger Chef?!?
(Well, back in 1977, obviously, but....)
jamesgravil 2 years ago
Hard to believe there was a time when the STAR WARS franchise had to go with a third rate fast food place like Burger Chef to do a tie-in! I had all those posters!
mjbivouac 2 years ago
@mjbivouac That was because they though the movie wouldn't make a dime. IDIOTS!
acholl980 1 year ago
Awesomely terrible, or terribly awesome?
jdude907 2 years ago
Probably just as unknown in Cali as In-n-Out is unknown on the east coast.
In-n-Out kicks ass! If you're ever out West, make sure you have one... animal style!
JP5466 2 years ago
yeah ...there is one on fishermans wharf in an francisco...
Blaspherian666 2 years ago
Burger Chef? -lol
Funny how the "Burger King" SW glasses are the same design as those posters.
JP5466 2 years ago
i still have the posters, they were my all time favorite! it was fun to love star wars as a kid.
mousekabeat 2 years ago 2
Whats Burgar Chef?
jediking12 2 years ago
i wish they still did cool stuff like that!I would kill for a star wars poster!
SplitSpades11 2 years ago
WOW a soda for 49 cents ?
cmwuscfan 2 years ago 23
Adjusted for inflation. ;) But I suspect it would still have been cheaper overall if translated in 2009 dollars.
Hotshotter3000 2 years ago
@cmwuscfan A LARGE soda at that!
Pynaegan 1 year ago
happened on nov 17th 1978.. 4 kids were kidnapped and shot/stbbed and beaten to death. no one was ever caught.. it was pretty scary. i never hear dof it either. i wonder if it was on unsolved mystries before?
earlymtv 3 years ago
lol, the Jawas! XD
Joorum 3 years ago
To me, Burger Chef will forever be steeped in tragedy. It was the same year that 4 Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef employees, ages 17-20 were kidnapped from the restaurant, then killed execution style in a wooded area. The killers were never found. Sorry to bring down the posts, but from then on, I find it difficult to not think of that chain without referring to that senseless crime.
ch20stn 3 years ago 3
Man thats really fucked up crime.
godstomper 3 years ago
It was alright. I remember the roads where owned by motorcycle gangs , star wars at the dolby theater , Starsky and Hutch and Banana splits on tv.
godstomper 3 years ago
Wow,I never heard about that one.What year did that happen?
PreviewSubsciption2 3 years ago
It happened around November of 1978. The case reopened in 2003 after some leads, but they proved to be false, unfortunately.
ch20stn 3 years ago
Great commercial! We never had a Burger Chef around here, but tons of Burger King and McDonald's. I managed to save some of the Star Wars ("Return of the Jedi") Burger King glasses and all of the cards and stickers of the early 1980's "Everybody Wins Game" that Burger King had when "Th Empire Strikes Back" came out.
Seventiesfan 3 years ago
Is that Violet Beauregard as the excited cashier?
immyACKorn 3 years ago
sure looks like her to me.
bendeco45 3 years ago
Yep, that's her alright!
ghspeedyg 3 years ago
Yes, from Willy Wonka it indeed is
zakyum 2 years ago
is r2-d2 or c-3po going to drink the soda? i remember this commercial, and I had one of those posters (the darth vader one I think) wish I had kept it, and I wish burger chef was still in business! liked them way better than mcdonald's!
SteevDragon67 3 years ago
BC rocked. and i had all four of those little posters! man, i wish i still had them. then again, i wish i had most of my star wars junk from back then. seems i only kept the crap that's next to worthless now.
macdaddyncheese 3 years ago
I had the Darth Vader and Chewbacca posters; I could kick myself in the ass for not keeping them! Remember, at this time "Star Wars" was a new movie. BC was great; we had one the city in Indiana where I grew up. It was the first place I remember where you could get your burger "with" or "without" and put whatever you liked on it. Our BC sold out in 1983. A local chain bought it, and then a few years after that it became a KFC. Hardee's isn't a patch on BC, IMO.
DissentingVoice 3 years ago