Don't know anyone who's starting a diet today. Never heard anyone say "whoa, ate too much at the Fair. It's the treadmill and cottage cheese for the next month. It's gustatory business as usual, and if that includes hitting a fast-food joint for lunch, here's some historical context: Original sites of famous fast-food chains.
The Dunkin Donuts page says this:
Got that? Not an eighth-grade education AND a keen business sense. He had good instincts for commerce - just think if he'd had a ninth-grade education, what he might have accomplished.
Don't miss the comments, because arguing about other people's food preferences is almost as much fun as arguing about operating systems, and there's an argument over the location of the first Burger King, and the obligatory conspiratorial comment:
Man's got a point. I don't know why you'd savor a hamburger when you should be removing bumbs. Anyway, it's an incomplete list. White Castles, but not White Towers? The latter was the Burger King to White Castle's McDonald's, the Kress to its Kresge's. Today they'd be sued out of existence if they'd opened a Tower by a Castle, especially since both had the same appearance, right down to the crenellations. They went sleek and modern in the 30s:
It's a nightclub / dancehall. Hope there's an addition, or a door to an adjacent space, because those weren't the largest restaurants.
This page about White Tower memories had a comment from someone who said his family went to the one on 2100 Admiral Boulevard. Well:
Probably. But you never know. See, once upon a time these places looked like this:
