>>16791815>>16790302>>16791756The 70s were the golden age of what would later be called fast-casual burger joints in the United States. All across America, local burger joints with menus similar to this one dotted the map that wrestlers would drive during the territory days. Most of these places were "fast food" in name only, if you wanted anything quickly you needed to phone ahead. If you showed up you were waiting 10 minutes in your car or a dimly lit room with 4 tables and a pinball or later pac-man machine. They were all dirt cheap though and thrived by serving this super limited menu of food you could cook in one tiny room.
These kinds of restaurants were a consequence of necessity. Wrestling was one of many decent jobs a man could work in those days that required a high protein intake. The food tastes of fat Americans would change over time, and would gradually shift from "eating 4 hamburgers" to "drinking 3 44 oz Cokes a day" as less and less members of the population worked harsh physical jobs.
The standard southern garbage restaurant format lives on in some form as Wendy's, which was a successful attempt to turn one of these places into an actual fast food chain. You can still find some of these actual old restaurants, but you have to look pretty hard, and the burgers are $6 now. From the 70s to early 90s though, there were 4-5 of these things in every town in the South, from California all the way to Florida, which is why so many wrestling personalities talk about hamburger joints. Five Guys is modern northern attempt at imitating the format that misses the mark completely.
