Did they have these in Florida. I remember visiting a hamburger restaurant while on vacations in the 70's which we didn't have back home... but I couldn't remember the name.
I loved burger chef when I was a kid.I rember when it changed to hardees,that was a sad day.I still have the burger chef halloween records.NERVOUS NAPKINS!!!!!
WOW Burger Chef I almost forgot about it! I used to go there when I was a little tot I remember U got to get your own condiments in the little paper cups YAY
@TimelordR If it had been Burger Chef that survived you can bet other would be moaning the passing of McDs! Besides it wasn't McDs that killed off Burger Chef, it was Hardees, who bought BC, because they wanted to expand their own brand!
; Open food places, which were so much fun, you can't have anymore because terrorists will dump E-coli, or whatever stupid chemical, into because the little invisible dictator told them too.
About 2 years left of burger chef in 1980. In 1982, Hardee's Burgers bought Burger Chef. Then in 1996, the final restaurant closed. The replacement place there had a fire in 2008 and it is abandoned today.
The uniforms in the commercial were the heaviest, most uncomfortable polyester ever made ... and they absorbed and held the smell of grease, no matter how many times you washed them. I spent two very uncomfortable hot summers wearing them .. but lots of good times and the food was good.
The voiceover was John Bartholomew Tucker.. he did lots of commercials in the 70s and 80s.. the most recent one he did was for the Dirt Devil vacuums; it's my understanding Tucker is still around.
And by the way, Proverbsc1v26, the Smuckers voiceover was longtime radio and TV actor Mason Adams up until his death a year or so ago.
i remember the old Burger Chef restaurant on the corner of Port Avenue and Morgan Street in Corpus Christi, Texas. too bad it was razed to make room for the Bonilla Plaza built in 1987 or 1988.
I have just started a bring back burger chef petition to sign the petition go to petitionspot d o t c o m/petitions/bringbackburgerchef I'm hoping to get enough signatures to send our petition to river west brands to let them know we support their fight against hardees and we love burger chef
Anyone interested in reviving Burger Chef 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
I think I went there once, maybe twice. There was one at the end of my grandmother's street. I was like 6 or 7 when it closed in 1984 I believe. Then it was converted into a Chinese Resturant. Since then the building has been demolished and rebulit into a bank.
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
I feel ya loimu2b everyone else should have gone under especally Hardees and Mickey D's my dog's alpo tastes better then them. I wish I was older then to truly enjoy them.
Burger Chef was the pioneer in most of the fast food innovations of its time. The competitors raided their ideas and took credit for them. Too bad they are gone.
We had a Burger Chef here in my town,it was built in 1981 and then went out when the chain went under. Then Taco Bell came in and then went out of business last year.
There are few comments on this but that's okay. I'm very happy to see that someone else thought this place was awesome too. Something awesome happened on those trips because those days from the late 70's are still in my head and the way Belleville, Illinois used to look. Then came the Hardee's "flavor" when they took over. blah-blech!
I only have vague memories of one meal at the (now defunct) Burger Chef in Alcoa, Tennessee. There was a kid's meal in a paper tray, and one of their mascots was a Sherlock Holmes-type character who smoked a bubble pipe.
I was so heartbroken when they changed Burger Chef to Hardee's here in Cinti, I think in 80 or 81. My sister and I loved Burger Chef like McDonald's and when we tried Hardee's, we actually got sick off their food. Years later, Hardee's got more menu items and I tried it again and they weren't as bad although I still didn't really care for the burgers. Hardee's went away too several years ago.
There was also one located on Livingston Ave in Columbus OH, just shy of some RR tracks.. It is now a pawn shop... I remember that the burgers were put in Sandwich bags with Burger Chef's logo printed on the bags... I really want to go back to those days....
I remember those vanilal shakes too - awesome . THis was definitely the Best of the burger chaIns - infintely better than McDonald's or Burger King . Sure wish they would come back - that " works bar" looked so good -and at no extra charge : )
I know you could just fix your burger like you wanted too. I think they were the best by far also. They had the best fish burgers too. Do they even exist anywhere anymore?
i remember them... we used to get to go there after swimming lessons!! And you got to go up and get your popsicle after you were done. Brilliant... lol... miss them.
My parents went with us kids (along with most of the country) to McDonald's, even though we had to PASS a Burger Chef to get to that McDonald's! I remember always looking at Burger Chef as we drove past it, and I remember one time seeing the girls at the cash registers taking customer orders. But the joke really is on us,
since McDonald's is terrible now, and a good hamburger restaurant such as Burger Chef doesn't even exist anymore.
I'm from Michigan and moved to Phoenix about 21 years ago. I haven't even THOUGHT about Burger Chef since then. Oh my goodness. I forgot all about Burger Chef. It must be an East Coast/Midwestern burger place. There isn't one out West. Can anyone add any info? Is there still Burger Chefs in existence? Thanks
the burger chef murders in November of 1978, 4 employees were kinapped. shot , stabbed . no one was ever caught..
TheEarlymtv 2 months ago
Who's doing the voiceover?
corydwalker 6 months ago
Did they have these in Florida. I remember visiting a hamburger restaurant while on vacations in the 70's which we didn't have back home... but I couldn't remember the name.
dukes0916 7 months ago
I feel like a burger chef
zuzanarox 7 months ago
Too bad they went belly up.I remember there was one across the street from the high school i went to and we used to sneak over there for lunch.
truck1962 9 months ago
@truck1962 They did not go belly up. They was bought out by Hardees.
ximenoworks 9 months ago
Ehhh.....5 Guys is better.
Ventillator 10 months ago
cum plaza park omg u cant b 4 real
MrJimmy1208 1 year ago
dave madden ... aka reuben kinkade
MrJimmy1208 1 year ago
why does everyone in these old fast food commercial seem unnaturally happy?
hippiefreak66 1 year ago
@hippiefreak66 That's what makes these commercials so great!
MattTheSaiyan 6 months ago
@MattTheSaiyan "we sold our souls for minimum wage!!! we rock!!"
hippiefreak66 5 months ago
I remember that place on Midlothian Tnpk West of Golden Skateworld West, in Chesterfield County Virginia back in the late 70s.
kd4adv 1 year ago
I loved burger chef when I was a kid.I rember when it changed to hardees,that was a sad day.I still have the burger chef halloween records.NERVOUS NAPKINS!!!!!
beatlespaz 1 year ago
WOW Burger Chef I almost forgot about it! I used to go there when I was a little tot I remember U got to get your own condiments in the little paper cups YAY
JaimeLe50s 1 year ago
What a pity i never got to eat at a Burger Chef when they were around. CURSE YOU MC DONALDS!!!
TimelordR 1 year ago
@TimelordR If it had been Burger Chef that survived you can bet other would be moaning the passing of McDs! Besides it wasn't McDs that killed off Burger Chef, it was Hardees, who bought BC, because they wanted to expand their own brand!
FabFM 1 year ago
And look how happy and excited all the Burger Chef workers were!
solidsignalz 1 year ago
; Open food places, which were so much fun, you can't have anymore because terrorists will dump E-coli, or whatever stupid chemical, into because the little invisible dictator told them too.
Cheers!
12Zwolf 1 year ago
my god I worked for one whole day at burger chef when I was 16...lol
suuzq35 1 year ago
It say's 1980 but it was 1970's
chrishoyboo 1 year ago
@chrishoyboo It was 1980, I remember when they changed the signs.
MOPEDER01 1 year ago
I touch the onions at the bar with my hands.
Silvertrine 1 year ago
About 2 years left of burger chef in 1980. In 1982, Hardee's Burgers bought Burger Chef. Then in 1996, the final restaurant closed. The replacement place there had a fire in 2008 and it is abandoned today.
utubeguy35 1 year ago
The uniforms in the commercial were the heaviest, most uncomfortable polyester ever made ... and they absorbed and held the smell of grease, no matter how many times you washed them. I spent two very uncomfortable hot summers wearing them .. but lots of good times and the food was good.
staytunedfor 2 years ago
The voiceover was John Bartholomew Tucker.. he did lots of commercials in the 70s and 80s.. the most recent one he did was for the Dirt Devil vacuums; it's my understanding Tucker is still around.
And by the way, Proverbsc1v26, the Smuckers voiceover was longtime radio and TV actor Mason Adams up until his death a year or so ago.
professor1966 2 years ago
i remember the old Burger Chef restaurant on the corner of Port Avenue and Morgan Street in Corpus Christi, Texas. too bad it was razed to make room for the Bonilla Plaza built in 1987 or 1988.
30wonderwoman 2 years ago
:22 "Dude look at all the stuff on my burger!!!!" "Uh ok..you're creeping me out, Bill. Back off.."
mattroxx89 2 years ago 17
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death to jeff and dismember burga sheffff
regressing2apes 2 years ago
Who is the voice over?
corydwalker 2 years ago
I don't know, but my acute voice memory tells me it's the same guy who did the 1980s "With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good" commercials.
Proverbsc1v26 2 years ago
I loved Burger Chief ! I went there in 1981 it became a Hardees in 1983.
vkoo32 2 years ago
this was 2 years after the murders of 4 employees...
earlymtv 2 years ago
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I have just started a bring back burger chef petition to sign the petition go to petitionspot d o t c o m/petitions/bringbackburgerchef I'm hoping to get enough signatures to send our petition to river west brands to let them know we support their fight against hardees and we love burger chef
odog65 2 years ago
Anyone interested in reviving Burger Chef 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
MOPEDER01 2 years ago 12
I think I went there once, maybe twice. There was one at the end of my grandmother's street. I was like 6 or 7 when it closed in 1984 I believe. Then it was converted into a Chinese Resturant. Since then the building has been demolished and rebulit into a bank.
Fanik8 2 years ago
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
odog65 2 years ago
I feel ya loimu2b everyone else should have gone under especally Hardees and Mickey D's my dog's alpo tastes better then them. I wish I was older then to truly enjoy them.
odog65 2 years ago
Burger Chef was the pioneer in most of the fast food innovations of its time. The competitors raided their ideas and took credit for them. Too bad they are gone.
loimu2b 3 years ago
We had a Burger Chef here in my town,it was built in 1981 and then went out when the chain went under. Then Taco Bell came in and then went out of business last year.
littlee44 3 years ago
The best burgers.
default99telecom 3 years ago 2
Do I feel like a Burger Chef?
NO!
palmercomm 3 years ago
Cool outfits!!!
Anyone from the North Carolina / Virginia area remember Ray's King Burgers???
999manman 3 years ago
Yep, I do. There was one in Burlington near Cum-Park Plaza. Loved eating there with my parents.
MOPEDER01 3 years ago 2
There was a place named that? Seriously???
mammatusofmystery 3 years ago 2
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It's still there.
MOPEDER01 2 years ago
Look it up on Wikipedia - there is a picture of the sign.
corydwalker 2 years ago
I'll be danged! You were right! Thanks, coryd!
999manman 2 years ago
I do! Loved their Burgers! If memory serves me right, there used to be one beside Northside Shopping Center.
redpaladin64 2 years ago 3
There are few comments on this but that's okay. I'm very happy to see that someone else thought this place was awesome too. Something awesome happened on those trips because those days from the late 70's are still in my head and the way Belleville, Illinois used to look. Then came the Hardee's "flavor" when they took over. blah-blech!
badmonkeycult 3 years ago
i remember this place had the best burgers...
studmunson 3 years ago
I only have vague memories of one meal at the (now defunct) Burger Chef in Alcoa, Tennessee. There was a kid's meal in a paper tray, and one of their mascots was a Sherlock Holmes-type character who smoked a bubble pipe.
odinvonzero 3 years ago
i wonder how old those people are now in that add.or even if there still alive
noblesvillejames 3 years ago
When I was a kid, NOBODY had better burgers than this place! Thirty years later I can still remember how good they were.
JonChristopher999 3 years ago
These people have obviously never seen a commercial sign before. What a bunch of dimwits.
bigdaddy40 3 years ago
burger chef ruled. blew away mc'ds
ten8goa 3 years ago
oh well at least they'll save a few defenseless cows! though the way they open fastfood restaurants that isn't really the case!?!?!?
KENVAIL 4 years ago
I was so heartbroken when they changed Burger Chef to Hardee's here in Cinti, I think in 80 or 81. My sister and I loved Burger Chef like McDonald's and when we tried Hardee's, we actually got sick off their food. Years later, Hardee's got more menu items and I tried it again and they weren't as bad although I still didn't really care for the burgers. Hardee's went away too several years ago.
KARENNAMC68 4 years ago
The only Burger Chef I remember going to growing up was by Northland Mall in Columbus, OH. I think it closed sometime in the early eighties.
wdrauch 3 years ago
Do you remember the Burger Chef Kid's Meal characters? I vaguely remember that them, I was still pretty young.
KARENNAMC68 3 years ago
There was also one located on Livingston Ave in Columbus OH, just shy of some RR tracks.. It is now a pawn shop... I remember that the burgers were put in Sandwich bags with Burger Chef's logo printed on the bags... I really want to go back to those days....
TGAHFAN 3 years ago
Good luck with that!
999manman 2 years ago
OMG!!!!!!! THEY USED TO HAVE A BURGER CHEF IN MACON GA. YEARS AGO.i never been or try BURGER CHEF before.i wish i would try it back in the day.
ray31093 4 years ago
They had the best vanilla shakes in the world. I remember my parents bought me the Burger Chef glow in the dark frisbee.
rjacko3568 4 years ago
I remember those vanilal shakes too - awesome . THis was definitely the Best of the burger chaIns - infintely better than McDonald's or Burger King . Sure wish they would come back - that " works bar" looked so good -and at no extra charge : )
doogleandalix 3 years ago
I know you could just fix your burger like you wanted too. I think they were the best by far also. They had the best fish burgers too. Do they even exist anywhere anymore?
rjacko3568 3 years ago
I still have my Frisbee! (doesn't glow anymore). Does anyone remember the kids meals? I believe the Happy Meal idea was ripped off from Burger Chef.
unabummer 3 years ago
i remember them... we used to get to go there after swimming lessons!! And you got to go up and get your popsicle after you were done. Brilliant... lol... miss them.
frogsfearme 3 years ago
It was. Look it up on Wiki. I can't believe that shit.
Fanik8 2 years ago
I used to love Burger Chef. It was the one place my folks would go other than Mickey D's. We loved it.
Maestrohbill 4 years ago
My family rarely goes to Mickey D's. We prefer Wendy's.
palmercomm 3 years ago 2
I miss that place!
terrehautehouse 4 years ago 3
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What a bunch of cocksuckers.
chasturner2 4 years ago
ya, burger chef was WAY better than mcdonald's
smincer 4 years ago 3
I miss that place. I do remember it was good, but wow, I was in first grade, any hamburger joint seemed like gourmet eating
Lesrevesdhiver 4 years ago
I'll take the then Burger Chef to the now Hardees any day.
DeeDee725 4 years ago
Burger Chef was the best! ! I fully agree with your statement.
MotoRooter 4 years ago 2
AMEN!!
DeeDee725 4 years ago 2
Styrofoam containers! Those were the days...
IsaakHunt 4 years ago
dont you feel like opening it up again and then burning it down :D
brandon4salisbury 4 years ago
My parents went with us kids (along with most of the country) to McDonald's, even though we had to PASS a Burger Chef to get to that McDonald's! I remember always looking at Burger Chef as we drove past it, and I remember one time seeing the girls at the cash registers taking customer orders. But the joke really is on us,
since McDonald's is terrible now, and a good hamburger restaurant such as Burger Chef doesn't even exist anymore.
Herbert7J 4 years ago
Who's the announcer here? I know this guy, this folksy announcer. It's not Mason Adams, it's someone else...but I don't know his name.
TServo2049 4 years ago
It's the same guy who does the Smucker's jam commercials, isn't it? Sounds kinda like him to me.
kaykaylee 4 years ago
It is the same man. Mason Adams who played Ed Asner's editor on "Lou Grant."
umpire63 4 years ago
John Bartholomew Tucker (from "Treasure Isle" and '70s "Candid Camera")
zekepig 4 years ago
Nice retro look. You can tell Burger Chef was in decline at the time. Couldn't adapt to the times fast enough.... sad.
monkeydoodle35 4 years ago
Thank you!
sneekspeeks 4 years ago
I'm from Michigan and moved to Phoenix about 21 years ago. I haven't even THOUGHT about Burger Chef since then. Oh my goodness. I forgot all about Burger Chef. It must be an East Coast/Midwestern burger place. There isn't one out West. Can anyone add any info? Is there still Burger Chefs in existence? Thanks
sneekspeeks 4 years ago
The Chef in Cleaveland, TN. Cleaveland TN is at exit 20 on I-75 north of Chattanooga TN on Keith Street.
MilwMike 4 years ago
Burger Chef was bought out by Hardee's in 84.
johnnygriffd 4 years ago
No, it was bought out by Hardee's in 1982.
Scarletspeedster68 4 years ago
No, Burger Chef was bought out by Hardee's in 1982. And things haven't been the same ever since.
Scarletspeedster68 4 years ago
Burger Chef....Order your food at Breakfast and get served at lunch.
GTBurns48215 5 years ago
Nice retro commercial. I like those kinds.
Dunes 5 years ago