Burger Chef - 1974 Commercial

[orangehornet57]

I remember the chain. Years before McDonald's Happy Meal, BC had a Fun Meal. Rumor has it that there was a lawsuit. Does anyone remember when BC went out of business?

[giffworks]

burger chef was better than any of the chains out there now.....

[edgargiosano]

In 1972 my mom gave me one dollar to go to Burger Chef. I got a cheeseburger,fries,drink and a pie and still had a few cents left over for penny candy. Those were the days.

[exilemike]

I loved Burger Chef,the Big Chef blew away the Big Mac,I miss that place.

[liwowoli]

Oh, no. I see. It's Burger Chef and just plain old Jeff.

[liwowoli]

So, let me get this straight. Those two guys are Burger Chef and... Burger Jeff?

[bradleyford11]

my mom worked there when she was teenager

[baarbear]

I could swear that ventriloquist/voice actor Paul Winchell did the vocal honors for Burger Chef.

[skylilly1]

Burger Chef was the best! They had great, long french fries and the burger bar was awesome. My friends and I used to eat there at least 3 times a week.  It was close to our school. I miss Burger Chef! They made a great burger.

[LadieTiger]

I've never heard of this. When did it go out of business?

[Dunes]

@LadieTiger From what I read,it went out in the year 1996. A shame really,I would've loved to gone to one more before they went out back then.

[BrigitofBergental]

Burger Chef had the best pickles.

[GuitarSamurai62]

I miss Burger Chef.

[casestudyification]

I know I'm weird, but I really miss the cheesy 70's. Zap me back anytime.

[f328owner]

They were the first to have the works bar

[Tangobutton]

Yes, Burger Chef lives! Hardee's bought Burger Chef in late 1983 and kept a number of their products on the menu.

[Kalawishis]

Incrediburgibly?

[MattTheSaiyan]

That "Burger Chef" building shown in this commercial looks very nice.

[ggoede1]

Wow, Tiggr is the Burger Chef!

[byerly6]

Loved Burger Chef. My grandmother used to take me there for fish burgers. I remember them being around until like 82 or so.

[crazyromanian1]

@byerly6 Me too, loved the Super Chef sandwich. I had relatives from Europe visiting one Summer back in the early 70's and they went crazy over Burger Chef and the K-Mart that was located nearby.

[rollomaughfling]

I came here for the nostalgia. But I stay for comment wars about Burger Chef. (Or, perhaps, Jeff.)

[JeffroPhoto]

My mom used to take me there every week for all you can eat fish. I think I put them out of business.

[swimmerB0B]

Burger Chef, you had incredi-burgably lousy food! For years, you kept Dairy Queen from having the worst hamburgers in the US.

[ebf1957]

Burger Chef was owned by General Foods at one time.

[hanksnow82]

Burger Chef was my favorite burger chain in the 70s

[brianfurry13]

LMAO@WebVMan! stop! youre hurting my chest laughing!!!!

[ForgivenChildofGod1]

loved Burger Chef..Got a Big Shef at a Hardees in Indiana last year..just wasn't the same (Hardees bought most of the Burger Chefs)

[ForgivenChildofGod1]

loved Burger Chef..Got a Big Shef at a Hardees in Indiana last year..just wasn't the same (Hardees bought most of the Burger Chefs)

[jangus894]

As a canadian I feel burger neglected after reading the comments!

[recordone11]

my mother would take us almost every saturday, miss burger chef

[Sheri451]

I remember Burger Chef, There was one in a rown about tweny miles away we tried it a few times and I can remember it tasted pretty good. But the restaurant went out of buisness a long time ago.

[xindoboyvanderx]

@Dalriada400 nice wiki search

[person5598]

@Dalriada400 lol right off it's wikipedia

[person5598]

@Dalriada400 lol they're going to be worth money one day, its called a hobby, so uhh just saying that you got off wikipedia, why are you so mad about that? How am a "troublemaker" by just saying you got some info of a website, jesus i wasnt trying to make a fight or anything, just calm down, i dont even know who you are

[TheMWdude]

whats burger chef? 

[hkfan1980]

didn't this place have those murders like 30 years ago?

[Krispykreme1988]

No wonder you never hear about Burger Chef anymore. That salad bar looks like stuff my garbage disposal spit up.

[shamalu]

All I ever see on you tube is people complaining and comparing and arguing."I like Burger King....Eddie Van Halen rules....David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar....McDonald's Bush....Obama....Skin....Hair.­...Up, down....Gibson, Fender....."

[WebVMan]

No wonder this place went out of business. It's bad enough to serve burgers and fries, but they didn't even assemble the burgers for you. LAY-ZY!!!

[FXMAN66]

@WebVMan You also got your food faster and orders did not get fucked up like they do with the morons serving them up now!

[GTBurns48215]

Serve them ready to eat? What you served them half cooked before that?

[ToddSweeneyOnce]

Hardees, McDonald's, Wendy's and others had better tasting burgers in the 70's than now. The price went up and the quality went down.

[GTBurns48215]

@ToddSweeneyOnce I remember when TACO BELL used FRESH GROUND BEEF. Now their taco meat content is under investigation.

[ToddSweeneyOnce]

@GTBurns48215 You're right and I haven't been there since that news came out and I probably never will again. It was kind of funny when I first heard about it, but the more I thought about it, the more disgusting it became.

[mrsweetguy38]

i wish they still had burger chefs they had the best hamburgers

[bsharp61]

I remember when we had one...it was great....miss it....

[smjjohnson]

That was back when eating fast food was healhy

[firefoxy2010]

@ O:26 It Sounds Like He Says Your Incredaburgerly Fatter!

[RainbowManification]

@firefoxy2010 Oh god isn't that the truth

[DavidsProductions]

@firefoxy2010 you dumbass did you really put the letter "O" for your 0:26 reference and thats the reason why it doesn't work...in your attempt to save people time you've actually wasted my time writing this comment. THANKS ALOT ASSHOLE!!! :)

[orioleadams]

Back in 1975 I was in high school and there was a Burger Chef about one block away from school. For 30 cents you could get a regular hamburger and then heap lettuce, onions whatever on it at the works bar. Fifteen cents bought you a small soft drink and you had a nummy lunch tastier and cheaper than what was available in the cafeteria. Plus it was just refreshing to get out of the building for 45 minutes.

[sjk72]

@orioleadams Yeah, and you were probably stoned.

[HomesickNG]

Burger Chef and Jeff. Had dinner with them every Monday on mom's league night back home in Cincinnati.

[ftsjr]

Are Burger Chefs still around? Where were they located? I live on Long island, and I don't remember there being any Burger Chefs around here.

[hoz49]

@ftsjr Burger Chef was sold to Hardees in the mid 80's. Some of the original BC restaurants .are still inoperation as Hardees.

[ftsjr]

@hoz49 Thanks for the information. Actually, there were hardly any Hardees on L.I. either. 

[CanadianFan]

G too Fudruckers!! 

[apuleius51]

I remember getting a free plastic record with the adventures of Burger Chef and Jeff in Frankenstein's castle, or something like that.

[HomesickNG]

@apuleius51 I remember that. Had one, too.

[doodydude234]

I'd save the money and just use the "works bar" to make my own salad.

[hoz49]

@doodydude234 Been there, did that!

[apachette07]

@doodydude234 That was smart! LOL

[slinginguitarman]

this kinda reminds me of the jettsons on colesterol instead of acid.

[VelvetCyberpunk]

Burger Chef was awesome. I went there for my kindergarten graduation and had a blast. It's a shame they got bought out and went under.

[clevesharpe]

As a little kid I remember Burger Chef commercials during Sammy Terry on Friday nights. I wish I would have kept the Star Wars poster I got from there. It had an awesome typo: Darth Vadar.

[user92126]

@clevesharpe Sammy used to live down the street from me

[pardyhardly]

So I guess Jeff worked there after school. Does anybody know if he worked on weekends?

[audiemo]

In Henderson, Ky that was a good place to eat I loved to Super Chef burger it was the bigest one I have ever seen.

[darlie48]

a couple months ago our local Hardee's had Super Shef sandwiches for sale-our Burger Shefs all converted to Hardee's sometime in the '80's.

[mbutchin]

Wow! I remember going to Burger Chef down in Millville, NJ! They were much better than McDonald's, I always thought.

[jimmym1a1]

@mbutchin yea, I used to like burger chefs

[GreatBigSea1968]

Ha ha! My folks had to get me something from Burger Chef when they wanted to go to a "grown up" restaurant :-)

[kandauelliot]

Oh yeah,must have had a dozen Burger Chef frisbees.Story from N.H is just plain sick.Bring back BC !

[handinside]

@ 0:17 it looks like Jeff is getting ready to drop a duece in the "leapin' lettuce".

[rickobear64]

@handinside lmao!!!!! ;) very observant!!!

[roaringchicken92]

Too many food poisoning claims took them down. But I still have my Burger Chef frisbee...

[9jorge78]

I wish we had a burger chef :)

[tdoyle9760]

My only case of food poisoning came from Burger Chief when I was about 10 years old. What fun!!!

[scott97]

Christmas time, mid-seventies...my mother took my sister and me to

Burger Chef after shopping at the mall...all three of us were sick as dogs for days afterward.

Later, we found out that my uncle had gone to Burger Chef about the same time, and also became very sick.

[Fruth37]

The last time I was in Napoleon, Ohio, the shell of the building that was the local hang out, Burger Chef, was just a truck lot. To think of all the good times spent in the parking lot and all the burgers we crammed down, it made me a little sad.

[debfan74]

Totally miss Burger Chef!!!!

[regressing2apes]

a man took a shit in a wrapper and threw it in the salad lettuce. my aunty worked at the one in seabrook n.h. she had to clean it. she said they threw the lettuce in the sink rinced it off and re-used it at the salad bar again. my kinda place!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sheri451]

Are there still any Burger Chefs around? I remember them.

[theshatnerman4242]

i liked burger chef good food good times.now go to a fast food price,pay more get less food,not worth it to me,and taco bell food sucks now

[GTBurns48215]

@theshatnerman4242 Actually fast food portions have gotten bigger. Look at the old commericals from teh 70s and 80 when they show a LARGE DRINK. Those larges are a Medium today.

[zuck21]

i remember burger chef when i was a kid..great stuff

[djseriousbizness]

I remember they used to give out little thin square plastic records with their happy meals. Back when a happy meal actually came in a box and it was actually not a class c felony to eat a fried goddamn hamburger. Back then a kid was happy to get a happy meal cuz you didn't get a chance to eat out like that every damn day. Nowadays alot these parents live and die by that shit and kids won't eat shit unless it comes from a fuckin value menu.

[MrCrevice123]

They were great back then. As a little kid, now 40, I liked the works bar better than the McDonalds experience. If side by side, they'd draw as much biz as any other burger place. Real good!!

[rekkapower]

the 70s were great, gay ass burger joints, led zeppelin, datsun Z, i was born born too late :[

[utubeguy35]

I'm so sad they closed in 1986 due to bankruptcy (i think). I REALLY WANT TO TRY a Burger Chef burger it looks so good.

[techmdawg]

burger chef and jeff

[svrandall]

Why don't I remember Burger Chef (and I'm in my early 40's)

[patsaxon]

I wished that there was a Hardees here in Texas! I had no idea that Burger Chef was bought out by Hardees. But too bad there is no Hardees or Buger Chef in Texas. Just like Sears bought out K-Mart and all the old K-Mart remains closed all over Texas as Sears never reopened K-Marts Stores.

[mat2000100]

@patsaxon weli you could visit a similar carls jr restruant

[StoneCold75]

"did he say your "incredibly Burger Fatter"?

[trh2130]

At :22, that actress looks like Nancy Kulp (Jane Hathaway from the Beverly HIllbillies)

[handinside]

@trh2130 I reckon Mr. Drysdale finally fired her!

[milesfrommission]

Man, the works bar. I'm not ashamed to say I abused that system.

[clingman71]

Burger Chef! They had the coolest Funmeal, you folded the box a certain way and tore out three small baseball shaped pieces and moved them using a straw. Funmeal Baseball! Harrigan's Tavern in Kettering, OH is in an old Burger Chef building.

[Necrodius]

Wow you are the only other person I know outside my family who says Funmeal lol and I know there was a place with one called that when I was a kid but I cannot recall where, was it this place? lol cause it has been drivin me nuts lol

[voiceofelijah2012]

I still have an original burger chef yo=yo

[DirkDiggler1102]

We had a Burger Chef about ten miles away. I always thought it was the coolest thing to put whatever I wanted on top of my hamburger. Those were the days. I think the one we frequented closed around 1981 or '82.

[SteevDragon67]

I always preferred burger chef to mcdonalds when i was a kid. too bad stupid hardees bought em out!

[RangerAlways]

When is this from ? I'm gonna date myself & say I worked there one summer in 1965 & the menu consisted of hamburgers, 15 cents, cheeseburgers, 20 c, & fries, 20 c. Shakes, Coke, Sprite. Jeez, I hated the food & hated the job.

[djseriousbizness]

I remember during halloween Burger Chef would give away these little, square, plastic records with scary stories in their happy meals.

[hardyboyzrko]

Ohhh man thats so funny, I'm from Australia and we have really only had fast food companies for about 35 years. Im very interested in the USA ones that have ended. With this company I find it ironic that you go to a fast food Burger place and their new feature is YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF, hmmm maybe I will stay at home and do the same thing lol

Cheers for putting this video up

[loonmaniac]

But we get free mustard and ketchup packets in America, as much as you want!

[htguy]

"we still serve them ready to eat" lol, as opposed to not ready to eat?

[SteevDragon67]

yeah, i guess they mean uncooked. but you will cook them yourself on burger chefs new char bar! LOL!

[crcracker1]

I remember Burger Chef in my hometown back in the 1970's, great stuff

[selloutasaurus]

loved this place as a kid.

[ClassicRockfan79]

ha ha, you got sick.. lol.. but true you have to watch some of that fast food crap, they closed a burger king in a town 20 miles from here, from what i hear due to mice.

[benjbass32]

Burger Chef was the first place I ever saw a salad bar. The idea seemed absolutely revolutionary to me at the time, especially as me and my buddy had decided to become vegetarians for awhile.

[Papercleps]

Reminds me of Fuddrucker's.

[8randomprettysecret8]

classic commercials are sooo awesome!

[TheLegendfamily]

Didn't Burger Chef beat Roy Rogers to the punch w/the toppings bar?

[SteevDragon67]

they also beat mcdonald's big mac with the super chef, and they, not mcdonalds had the first kids meal, the funmeal!

[TheLegendfamily]

@SteevDragon67: Thanx for the info, Steev. Btw, most people have forgotten that the Big Mac is almost a complete copy of the Big Boy burger.

[MrClamjuice]

We had one in Trenton Michigan, it was awesome. When I was with my Dad we went every Friday, then I went home and watched the Dukes!

[fullmoondrivein]

I remember a Burger Chef in East Providence,RI.

[Reubenhubert]

I remember being jealous of the city to the south of where I lived. We had a McDonalds in our town. They not only had McDonalds, they had Burger Chef, Red Barn, and Arthur Treachers.

[tony46214]

Burger Chef was taken over by HARDEE'S

[MediaWatchDawg]

Was cheese available on the "works bar"?

[brendafohio]

I loved the big chef burger! I also loved the works bar. The former burger chef in Miamisburg, Ohio is now the tidy rabbit laundry mat. Was good eats.

[mac163]

anybody remember herfy´s?

[mattroxx89]

"we still serve them ready to eat." As opposed to..??

[BlueKyne]

As opposed to the ones in the back, 3 weeks old, that were stepped on and sticky! You didn't want those!

[andypage9]

@mattroxx89 You could order them with the toppings already on, or with nothing on them and add your own at the toppings bar.

[hcvang]

@mattroxx89 as opposed to having the costumers put the toppings on them

[lst1195]

OMG! We had one of these here! (St.Petersburg Florida) I vaugely remember it!

[tranurse]

i remember one in eustis, florida too.

[AarHan3]

Incredi-BURGER-ble! ;-)

[ebkvideos]

Burger Chef was the grate then come Hardee's. I miss the mushroom burger.

[leahvarela]

This came out the year I was born...does that make me old?

[earlymtv]

wasnt there some murders that went down around 78?

[drews1998]

that was that movie hallowen!!

[LostInSpaceRobot]

Where at Burger Chef?

[jaymarlow77]

4 of them. Assistant mgr and 3 other employees murdered in Indy.

[Cydonia]

Life was so simple back then.

[J4YST3R]

Do you remember the old plactic "vinyl" records they gave out with kids meals? :D Man, I loved Burger Chef. They invented the Kids Meal.

[NebraskasWallpaper]

I think it was called the Fun Meal!

[J4YST3R]

@NebraskasWallpaper - That's right! It was, indeed, called the Fun Meal. Man, memories...

[pixelbot2000]

When the new Burger Chef in town opened, we went to their grand opening. My Dad entered a drawing to win a bicycle for me and he won! It was a purple Schwinn with a glittery banana seat. Ahhh, memories!

[HGbunny]

In central FL in the 70's when I was a kid, the burger wars was between McDonalds, Burger King, and Burger Chef, with a nod to Royal (not White) Castle. I LOVED Burger Chef's burger topping bar, it was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that, and if I wanted a pickle burger, damn it, I made a pickle burger! The salad bar was pretty cool, too

[akumacornflakes]

No wonder Burger Chef isn't still around, you had to do everything yourself!

[rockhopper10r]

I lived near Boston when I was a kid. We didn't have Burger Chef in Massachusetts, but they did in Rhode Island. We sometimes watched the Providence TV stations (Boston affiliates were notorious for pre-empting network programming) and would see Burger Chef commercials. I wanted to go and couldn't understand why this place advertised on TV, but there were none near us.

[45CYNTHIA]

I remember Burger Chef when we lived in Florissant, Mossouri in 1968 and Puddingstone ( New Jersey ) in 1970, they had really good burgers.

[ReneeNme]

Burger Chef was a communist.

[plymouthroadrunner1]

We had one in Stevens Point WI. Once the Hardees next door had their burgers on sale and we bought them. Then we walked over to Burger Chef and piled on the toppings from the works bar. Nobody said anything who worked there but I remember feeling guilty about it!! That place was great!

[royalfuzziness]

My aunt worked at the one in Wausau WI

[cantsdemort]

Hardee's should bring the CHEF back!!

[ReneeNme]

Here at our Hardees restaurants you can now get the Super Chef cantsdemort. Burger Chef was still a communist though.

[Silvertrine]

I dont think letting the public get their grubby hands all over the fixings was the best idea ever.

[timeclock4000]

I agree, i didnt think about it til later on in years how unsafe it was to trust people to polices themselfs. i still wont eat at buffets.

[handinside]

Like,what if the guy before you at the bar just dropped a deuce in the can,and didn't wash his hands (after not wiping his butt properly)? Gross!

[JVHBand]

It's amazing how many things Paul Winchell put his voice to! What a true talent.

[BillyKnockout]

I was wondering who that was ! I remember hearing that voice on all kinds of cartoons !

[Luisofbrazil]

does it still exist?

[Ease54]

I used to eat at BC in college in Murray,KY.You could really stretch those burgers by piling on toppings!The first chain I remember was called "Burger Broil" in Lexington,KY.They had 14 cent burgers.They came with diced onion so bitter my dad wouldn't even eat them.

[danielion999]

They had "FunMeals" before McDonalds had "Happy Meals".

[RetroBoyWontDie]

Of course, Wendy's still have those useless salad bars in their dining rooms.

[nickelindimer]

Gee... This is how Fudrucker's is!

[Jguy365]

my mom said she used to eat there.

[999manman]

Love those polka dotted aprons!

[LickMyCuntMoFo]

I worked here in the 70s.....let's just say it was "dirty".

[ToddSweeneyOnce]

@LickMyCuntMoFo Sounds like fast food places today. My advice to everyone: Never eat at a Burger King again.

[tuttt99]

IncrediBURGible!!!

[duncan36]

Yeah just what everyone wants in a fast food restaurant a communal salad/condiment bar. I bet the person whose job it was to tend that thing learned to hate humanity.

[kevinthegreat001]

at :10, that lettuce looks rotten lol

[TimelordR]

I wish i could have visited a Burger Chef when i was younger, but i didn't know if they were any in Chicago. Thanks for the flashback.

[DHRWDH]

We used to order one hamburger and about five of us would eat salad at the "works bar"

I sure miss throwing all of my trash on the ground when I was done.

[regham33]

They need a place like buger chef now

[mandrake2273]

I agree! Thats what I told them on their guest book at the Burger Chef web site! I use to love going there!

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