Burger Chef

Frank P. Thomas Jr., Donald J. Thomas, And Robert E. Wildman, Owners Of The General Equipment Company, Entered Into The Fast-food Business By Opening A 15¢ Hamburger Restaurant Called Burger Chef In Indianapolis In 1958. General Equipment Was A Manufacturer Of Restaurant Machinery And Built The Equipment Installed In Each Burger Chef Store. The Partners Started Their New Burger Chef Division To Sell More Equipment; They Never Could Have Imagined That Burger Chef Would Eventually Grow To Become The Nation’s Second-largest Hamburger Chain And Beloved By Customers In Towns And Cities Across America. Burger Chef Continued In Business Until 1982, Cooking Its Popular Flame-broiled Hamburgers And Introducing Its Memorable Advertising Icons, Burger Chef And Jeff.