I need help remembering the now gone super-cheap drive thru. It had like 25 cent burgers and fries. I know we had them in Portland and they all disappeared and were taken over mostly by Coffee People. They had double drive-thrus. It was pretty bad but it was cheap.
I live in Portland, too…I know exactly the one you mean but I can’t remember the name…this is bugging me…
I remember one at 82nd and Powell…it’s now a mortgage company…Sonic?
Was it In and Out??? That seems kind of familiar. I know that’s a place in California but it seems right. My friend thinks that right because she made vulgar jokes about it.
Hot ‘n’ Now!!! I can rest easy.
Absolutely. I never at there. Was it good?
Standard hamburgers. They had one in Dayton and if memory serves, they didn’t allow special orders, so if you didn’t like something like onions, then you were out of luck.
Pepsico owned them but I don’t think it got spun off with Taco Bell and Pizza Hut into Yum! Brands. Not sure if they exist anywhere now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_'n_Now
I think they still have some in Michigan. Figures.
I live in Michigan and haven’t seen one open in years. It would not surprise me if there were a few operational Hot 'n Nasty’s somewhere in the great nothern frontier.
Michigan has a few. I know of one in Lansing and one in Charlotte that were open last time I drove by.
What I thought of when I saw the title was Burger Chef. Anyone remember those?
We had Burger Chef in my SE Indiana town for years before McD’s came in. It lasted until the very late 1970s, maybe even 1980. I believe it was absorbed by Hardees.
The Kalamazoo area Hot’n’now’s closed down some time ago (ca late 90’s?). Kinda miss the olive burgers and curly fries, but only a little.
Are Burger Chef’s around at all anymore? I remember when they left Dayton in the 70’s. Interestingly Hot N’ Now took over that same space and also failed. Guess it was a lousy location for burgers.
In Albuquerque we had a 25 cent hamburger stand called, oddly enough, “The 25 Cent Hamburger Stand”. They served McD’s style hamburgers, cheese was an extra ten cents. I don’t recall if they served fries or not. I have a disturbing memory of watching my cousin eat 6 dollars worth of hamburgers. Only took him a few minutes. A few months later they changed their name. Any guesses?
“The 35 Cent Hamburger Stand”. Didn’t have the same ring. They closed shortly there after.
They had one on a frontage road in Oshkosh [WI.]. Burgers/fries were C- at best. Don’t recall them only being a quarter though.
I’m more remenicent about places like Burger Chef. I know for a fact their burgers were only a quarter ('course, that was in the 70’s! 
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This one has been answered so let’s discuss cheap hamburgs over in MPSIMS.
Moved.
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