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- In 1992, Fatburger gained national attention after being referenced in the hit song "It Was a Good Day" by rapper and actor Ice Cube. It was also referenced by The Notorious B.I.G. in the song "Going Back to Cali".
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Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey (1912–2008) in the neighborhood of Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California, in 1947. It was originally named "Mr. Fatburger" (on behalf of Yancey's boyfriend), until Yancey removed the "Mr." in 1952.
Back in 1947, the incomparable Lovie Yancey started the business with her husband: a three-stool hamburger stand called Mr. Fatburger. But in 1952, they split. Ever persistent, she dropped “Mr.” from the namesake, and Fatburger became her own.
Mar 11, 2024 · Two African-American founders Lovie Yancey and Charles Simpson opened their first burger shack named Mr. Fatburger in Los Angeles, California. The burger stand, constructed by Simpson himself, was quite rudimentary — it was built with leftover materials and featured only three stools for dining.
Mar 11, 2024 · Two African-American founders Lovie Yancey and Charles Simpson opened their first burger shack named Mr. Fatburger in Los Angeles, California. The burger stand, constructed by Simpson himself, was quite rudimentary — it was built with leftover materials and featured only three stools for dining.
- An African-American Woman Opened Mr. Fatburger in 1947.
- Mr. Fatburger Lost Its "Mr." After Yancey Split from Her Boyfriend.
- Fatburger Appealed to Everyone from Celebrities to Late-Shift Workers.
- Yancey Successfully Grew Her Business Until Selling The Company in 1990.
- Rappers Love Shouting-Out Fatburger in Their Songs.
- Other Big-Name Celebrities Have Gone Into Business with Fatburger.
- Before She Died, Yancey Donated $1.7 Million to Fight Sickle-Cell anemia.
- The XXXL Fatburger Challenge Has A Daunting 24 Ounces of Meat.
- Fatburger Isn't Afraid to Get Creative with Holiday flavors.
- The Original Fatburger Stand Was Incorporated Into Affordable Housing units.
In 1947, Lovie Yancey was 35 years old and living in Los Angeles. After opening a restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, she wanted to capitalize on the growing popularity of hamburgers, so she founded a hamburger stand out of her garage called Mr. Fatburger. Located on Western Avenue in Los Angeles near Exposition Park and Jefferson Park, Mr. Fatburger wa...
To build her hamburger stand, Yancey got help from her boyfriend, Charles Simpson. A construction worker, Simpson used leftover scrap materials that he got from his job to build the stand. Although the name Mr. Fatburger may have referred to Simpson’s nickname, Yancey later said that she named her restaurant to convey the large sizeof her burger. I...
Michael Saechang via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 In the 1950s, Yancey worked 16- to 18-hour daysat her Fatburger counter, seven days a week. African-American musicians and actors, including Ray Charles, James Brown, and Redd Foxx, frequented Fatburger, and lots of her customers asked her to keep her hamburger stand open all night. She did, and Fatburger...
In 1973, Yancey opened a second Fatburger location in Beverly Hills, a spot that celebrities frequented late at night, even after Hollywood awards shows. "One night, there was some kind of awards [ceremony] and people came in limousines in their tuxes and everything," Yancey's daughter, Gwen Adair, recalled in 2008. In the early 1980s, she started ...
A late-night Fatburger was part of Ice Cube's good day, and Tupac hit up the burger joint rather than the club in "Late Night." The Notorious B.I.G. got a little explicit with his date at Fatburger in “Going Back to Cali." And though the Beastie Boys were devout White Castle fans, they were "fly with Fatburger" when "way out west."
Christine Lu via Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 In 2001, Magic Johnson’s company bought a controlling interest in Fatburger’s parent company (though he sold it two years later). Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Montel Williams, and Queen Latifah have all been Fatburger franchisees. Pharrell helped to open Fatburger locations in China, and Queen Latifah got i...
Though Yancey lived to the ripe old age of 96, in 1983, she lost her grandson Duran Farrell, who was just 22, to the heredity disease sickle-cell anemia. To honor him, Yancey donated $1.7 million in 1986 to City Of Hope, a hospital in the greater Los Angeles area, for research into sickle-cell anemia. Yancey herself died in Los Angeles of pneumonia...
Although Fatburger offers burgers in various sizes, from small to massive, the biggest burgers obviously get the most fanfare. With 24 ounces of meat, the XXXL burger comes with a challenge: customers who can eat the entire burger in one sitting get their photos put up on the wall and a certificate. Comedian Jay Leno completed the XXXL challenge an...
Fatburger recently hopped aboard the seasonal flavors bandwagon and added limited-time itemsto its menu, including a pumpkin pie milkshake, sweet potato fries, and a mushroom Swiss hamburger. Thanksgiving at Fatburger … why not?
via Google Maps The original Fatburger stand on Western Avenue opened in 1947, but it wasn’t designated as one of Los Angeles’s historical-cultural monuments. The stand today exists on 35,000 square feet of land that was commercially zoned. But since the Fatburger shack itself cannot be torn down, the developer incorporated the building into his de...
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Apr 12, 2021 · Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey, who was a natural-born entrepreneur, according to the company. Yancey was born in 1912 in rural Bastrop, Texas. Shortly after the birth of her first child in 1931, the single mom moved to of Los Angeles, where better opportunities, she was certain, awaited her.
Jul 20, 2023 · The story of Fatburger is a windy, inspirational tale that highlights Black entrepreneurship in South Los Angeles throughout the mid-to-late 20th century. And it begins with the exemplary Black entrepreneur Lovie Yancey.
