Welcome to...
JSF's BURGER CHEF Tribute
... A nostalgic look back at one of America's first and finest fast food franchise chains
About this Website...
This website had been created as a tribute to the former Burger Chef fast service restaurant chain for the enjoyment of former customers, employees and those interested in the history of this subject. Being an "unofficial" hobby site it is in no way connected with Hardees/CKE, the current owner of the rights to the Burger Chef name.
Images and items on this Website are either from visitors to the site - in which case this source is noted, from correspondence I had with Burger Chef while they still existed as a company or from items which I purchased on eBay. I gain no monetary profit from the operation of this site or any site I operate, in fact I pay for the use of the server - but the price is well worth being able to help preserve the history of this great company
Thanks for visiting!
Site Creator
Site Founded: 09-25-1999
Hits since 10-26-2008
Burger Chef Links...
Kyle's Burger Chef Memories Website A great Burger Chef tribute site, fantastic vintage photos!
Sandy's Tribute to Schroeder's A former Burger Chef still operating as a restaurant that houses a Burger Chef Musuem.
Burger Chef Souvenirs on ebay Fun to browse and bid!
Burger Chef and Jeff Tribute Site to the memory of Clayton 'Corky' Smith and Burger Chef. (Has not been available)
Lost Indiana: Burger Chef A page about Burger Chef in its home state.
Roadside Archecture: Eateries Photos of former Burger Chef buildings and signs.
BurgerChef.com Archived version of the original Burger Chef tribute site.
Links of Related Interest...
GoogieArt.com Offers a gallery of sketches of diners and coffee shops from the archives of Arnet & Davis.
Roadside Peek A fabulous site...tons of great pictures!
Gino's Hamburgers A former East Coast chain
BoomerBaby.com Lots of memories and fun stuff here!
Tick-Tock-Toys A fantastic food archive, 100's of pictures!
Discount Stores of the 60's "Grab your cash, climb into your tailfinned gas guzzler and take a shopping trip back in time to some discount stores from a bygone era."
NOW AVAILABLE!!!
Just what us Burger Chef fans have been waiting for!!!
A new book... "Images of America - Burger Chef"!!!
... from Arcadia's Images of America series
CLICK THIS LINK For information and to order from the Publisher - Arcadia
CLICK THIS LINK For information and to order at Amazon.com
May, 2009
NEW PAGE ADDED!!!
...With MP3 audio files from a vinyl record issued by Burger Chef featuring
Frank Thomas discussing the success of Burger Chef to potential investors in the Burger Chef System.
...I have purchased a copy of this book and highly recomend it to all Burger Chef fans. It covers everything from the Thomas family's General Equipment Company in the years before Burger Chef and how Burger Chef was started, then goes into Burger Chef in the 1960's. Chapters also cover the General Foods years, advertising, memorabilia and Burger Chef buildings still in use. It is lavishly illustrated with great pictures, many which I have never seen before.
1999 ----- 10 Years Of Rembering Burger Chef On the Web ------ 2009
with JSF's Burger Chef Tribute!
Time flies when your having fun!!!...
It doesn't seem like ten years has passed since I first logged onto the Internet and began my Web building work. I can't claim to be the first to have the idea to commerate Burger Chef on the internet. It was Paul Browning's Unofficial Burger Chef Homepage site
(archived here) which was started in 1998 that gave me the inspiration, not to compete with but to compliment his work. Since then several other sites have popped up all with the interest of preserving this once great Fast Food chain and doing it each in thier own way. I've had fun building up the site and hearing from so many visitors here - former employees who enjoy reminising about thier years working at Burger Chef and those, like myself, who have childhood memories of eating out at Burger Chef. I'd like to take this opportunity to say Thank You for your kindness and support over the past 10 years, without you and all who visit here, this site would not be worthwile. I hope you continue to enjoy the site.
John
NEWS and UPDATES...
Jim's Burger Haven - a former Burger Chef - 1215 Highway 36 in Hazlet N.J., will be closing on Thursday, October 22.
The owner will be having an auction after the closing The interior has never been remodeled so there may be some intersting Burger Chef artifacts to pick up.
It was first reported a White Castle will be built here, however they backed out and now Auto Zone will replace the restaurant.
Photo - Tim Ferrante
