Fat Burger

A bit of history: Fatburger was started a few blocks from my house (on Western Ave one block north of Jefferson Blvd, LA) by a little old Black man. It was open around the clock when I was growing up. People were standing 6 deep at the counter. Th ... more

A bit of history: Fatburger was started a few blocks from my house (on Western Ave one block north of Jefferson Blvd, LA) by a little old Black man. It was open around the clock when I was growing up. People were standing 6 deep at the counter. The cashiers never wrote your order down. You yelled it out and they remembered. And ALWAYS got the order right. His secret was plain and simple--he used sirloin grade meat and made that hamburger any way you wanted it. Needless to say, he charged for it appropiately. Those burgers were three dollars when I was coming up (I'm 49 now). The owners franchised, then sold Fatburger. There were quite a few stands in LA. The original stand is vacant now. less