Kewpee Hamburgers is the second well-known fast-food chain, founded in 1923 in Flint, Michigan under the name "Kewpee Hotel Hamburgs". Kewpee headquarters is currently located in Lima, Ohio. This chain is named after the Kewpie doll. Kewpee was one of the first to institutionalize roadside services, which later turned into a drive-in service, and was eventually converted into a drive-thru service. Location Five Kewpee locally lifted beef shipped daily to every Kewpee restaurant. The Kewpee Restaurant in Lima, Ohio is considered a historic site.
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Kewpee Hamburgers is a fast-food chain chain founded in 1923 in Flint, Michigan, by Samuel V. Blair under the name "Kewpee Hotel" in standing position.
In Lansing, Michigan, the Weston family has owned and operated the Kewpee restaurant since it opened in 1923. The Weston family has had as many as two Kewpee restaurants open at one time in Lansing. The Westons are in the fourth generation of operating Kewpee. Kewpee's initial plans under Blair and Adams seem to remain outside the major cities. After the Prohibition, some Kewpee restaurants add real beer to their root root beers, which are on many Kewpee menus joining the standard hamburger-style coffee offerings. In 1928, the location of Lima, Ohio, opened under the ownership of Hoyt "Stub" Wilson. About 200 Kewpee locations existed in 1929. In 1936, with Kewpee already in Findlay, Ohio, Wilson opened a restaurant there called Wilson's Sandwich Shop. At its peak before World War II, there were over 400 Kewpee restaurants in operation.
Blair, after retiring on April 1, 1944, began renting the original location. Blair died in 1945 and the licensee continued to lease their location and pay royalties for the use of the Kewpee name from the estate until Kewpee trademark was sold in 1955. Blair's plantation site was sold in 1958. The original location and rights to Kewpee were divided into sales with the original location going to be the leaser of William "Bill" V. Thomas, while the trademark went into the partnership of Ed F. Adams's Kewpee Hotels in Toledo, Ohio. Around 1958, Harrison "Harry" E. Shutt worked for Wilson at his restaurant in Lima. In 1963, the Grand Rapids license location was sold and separated from Kewpee as Mr. Fables.
Partnership Ed Adams, Kewpee Hotels transferred the Kewpee trademark to Kewpee Hotel Systems, Inc. in 1965 where Ed Adams became president. The number of Kewpee locations dropped dramatically in 1967 when Kewpee Hotel Systems, Inc. demanding full franchise arrangements and a percentage of the profits. Locations that object to closing or renaming them. The original Flint location changed its name to Bill Thomas' Halo Burger which is still a thriving business, but not in its original location demolished in 1979. Hortense M. Adams took over as president of Kewpee Hotel System, Inc. in March 1975. In August 1985, the Kewpee International partnership, (later most likely included as Kewpee of Toledo) led by former Kewpee Hotel System Vice President Robert L. Dame, purchased Kewpee's rights from Kewpee Hotel System, Inc. The Kewpee, Inc. formed in 1969 by Harold J., James F. and Richard E. Meredith, based in Lima, Ohio. "The Kewpee, Inc. of Toledo" granted the Kewpee trademark to "The Kewpee, Inc." Shutt became president in 1970 from Kewpee, Inc. and bought Wilson's location in Lima after Wilson's death in 1980.
According to a 2001 interview with Dave Thomas, Wendy's founder, as a child, he lives near the intersection of Douglas and Kalamazoo Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Thomas used to eat at the Kewpee restaurant, which stood on Burdick and South. He says it's what inspires him to get into business. Kewpee's sells a square hamburger and a thick malt shake, similar to the famous restaurant that Thomas finally founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969.
In January 2010, Kewpee was named to National Restaurant News 50: List of All-America Icons, and Lima City Council issued a congratulatory resolution to the company.
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Slogan
Their ad tagline is: Pickle pick up on top, make your heart go flippity-flop!
- Previous Slogans
- "Mity Nice Hamburger".
- "Granpappy you eat here"
- "We serve everyone"
- "Hamburg Pickle On Top! Make Your Heart Moving Flippity Flop!"
Location
There are five remaining Kewpee restaurants that are known, as follows:
- Kewpee Sandwich Shoppe, Lansing, Michigan
- Kewpee Sandwich Shop, Racine, Wisconsin
Five, Ohio
- Kewpee Hamburgers Downtown - located in Lima, Ohio and also known as Kewpee Downtown, opened under the ownership of Stub Wilson in 1928 as a Kewpee franchise. Kewpee's architecture is Streamline Moderne, featuring porcelain enamel and stainless steel. The building was approved for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 but was marked as the Owner's Objection and did not appear on the list.
- Kewpee West Hamburger
- Kewpee East Hamburger
See also
- List of hamburger restaurants
References
Further reading
- Gary Flinn (October 4, 2010). Remembering Flint, Michigan: Stories from Vehicle City . Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. p.Ã, 115. ISBNÃ, 978-1-61423-646-7.
External links
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