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The Great Depression may have seen many fortunes lost, but Rody Davenport made his in the midst of it. In 1932, he and his business partner Joseph Glenn Sherill founded the very first Krystal on the corner of 7th and Cherry Streets in Chattanooga.
Jul 26, 2011 · Businessman, Philanthropist Rody Davenport Dies Businessman and philanthropist R.B. "Rody" Davenport III died at his home on Tuesday morning. He was 82. His father was one of the founders of the Krystal hamburger chain, and Rody Davenport at one time headed Krystal.
Nov 1, 2022 · Founded in 1932 during the first years of the Great Depression, Krystal began in Chattanooga, by entrepreneurs Rody Davenport Jr. and partner J. Glenn Sherrill. Davenport's wife, Mary, came...
- The “Krystal Kreed” Has Always Meant Quick, Clean, Cheap Service.
- They Saw The Name in A Crystal Ball.
- The First-Ever Krystal Restaurant Was A Prefab Job.
- It Was Inspired by The Oldest U.S. Burger Chain of all.
- The Company’S Done Plenty of Its Own Pioneering, though.
- Elvis Presley and Dewey Phillips Were Big-Time Fans
- "Krystal Bob" Wasn’T A Hit, But His Dog was.
- A Country Singer Took Her Pseudonym from The Restaurant.
- Pro Eater Joey Chestnut Holds The Krystal Square Off Title.
Pengrin, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 Rody Davenport Jr. and J. Glenn Sherrill founded Krystal in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1932, right in the middle of the Great Depression. Their plan for a recession-proof restaurant followed four tenets: Because their small burgers (also called “Krystals”) have always been priced to move, the company has had fairly stead...
Ted Rheingold, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 Metaphorically speaking, at least. It’s company legendthat Davenport and his wife were driving "down a mountain road" when Mrs. Davenport saw a crystal ball lawn ornament. Remembering that cleanliness was key to the new restaurant’s foundation, she suggested that her husband "should name the restaurant Crystal ...
When it came to housing the new kind of quick, clean eatery, its founders wanted Krystal’s outside to mirror its insides. They ordered a mostly prefabricated 25’ by 10’ building with stainless steel interior and a white porcelain enamel exterior from Chicago and had it sent to Chattanooga.
If you’re a tiny burger fan, you may have noticed that the minute, almost-fit-in-your-mouth burgers with square patties sold by Krystal are a lot like the signature burgers you’ll find at White Castle. That’s no accident. Davenport and Sherrill, both of whom were experienced businessmen, had visited White Castle restaurants and been impressed with ...
Krystal might have started out with a borrowed recipe for a successful restaurant, but they came up with other ways to stand out. Krystal’s Breakfast Scramblers line, for example, takes traditional Southern plate breakfasts like grits with eggs and sausage, and "stacks them smartly in bowls" for a meal-to-go that isn't a tired old breakfast burrito...
Getty Images Hardcore Elvis Presley fans might know that it was renowned DJ “Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips who first gave the future King radio air time in 1954. They might not know, however, that both Presley and Phillips were enormous fans of buying Krystal burgers en masse after hanging out at the studio from which Phillips’ “Red, Hot and Blue” show w...
As far as advertising campaigns go, Krystal's disembodied head named Bob was definitely an odd one. Krystal officials themselves noted that they got parental complaints that the ads were scaring some children, and Advertising Age wrote that the campaign was "very bizarre and ... marginally offensive." The mostly unpopular mascot got the swift boot ...
The story goes that country/crossover singer Crystal Gayle, born Brenda Gail Webb, based her stage name on Krystal. Supposedly, her sister—country star Loretta Lynn—suggested the first name Crystalbecause of the burger chain, and Brenda, who dug the idea, rounded out the new moniker by making a version of her own middle name into her surname. It se...
Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 For six years, Krystal hosted the World Hamburger Eating Championship with its Krystal Square Off, and in 2007, Joey Chestnut—of Nathan's Hot Dogchampionship fame—downed an impressive 103 Krystal burgers in eight minutes. Even if they're little, that's a lot of sackfuls.
Jul 26, 2011 · Businessman and philanthropist R.B. “Rody” Davenport III died at his home on Tuesday morning. He was 82. His father was one of the founders of the Krystal hamburger chain, and Rody...
Jul 28, 2011 · IIIRodolph "Rody" B. Davenport III, former chairman of the Chattanooga based Krystal Co., a longtime philanthropist and civic leader, died Tuesday morning, July 26, 2011, at his home on Lookout...
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Jul 27, 2011 · Rodolph "Rody" B. Davenport III, former chairman of the Chattanooga-based Krystal Company, a longtime philanthropist and civic leader, died Tuesday morning at his home on Lookout Mountain. He...
