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For the first fifty years, the Brier was sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco (later RJR Tobacco Company and now part of JTI-Macdonald Corporation). The name "Brier", in fact, came from a brand of tobacco being manufactured by Macdonald at the time (a brier being a small shrub whose roots are commonly used to make tobacco pipes). [6]
The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded on July 23, 1954, in Jacksonville, Florida, as Instant Burger King.. Inspired by the McDonald brothers' original store location in San Bernardino, California, the founders and owners, Keith G. Cramer and his stepfather Matthew Burns, began searching for a conce
Ted's Hot Dogs is a chain of hot dog restaurants based in Buffalo, New York.Founded on March 24, 1927 by Greek immigrant Theodore Spiro Liaros, Ted's Hot Dogs is a Western New York tradition based primarily upon their charcoal broiled hot dogs, as well as their homemade secret hot sauce, old-fashioned milk shakes, and handmade onion rings.
1940/1948 extensions: The store was expanded and redesigned between 1940 and 1948 to about 74,000 sq ft (6,900 m 2) with ca. 500 employees. [34] 1990s addition (Women's Shoes): In the 1990s, the store added a single-story building immediately to the west, which long housed the women's shoe department. [35]
Pernell Peace pleaded guilty to dog fighting on March 24, 2009, and received a three-year suspended sentence. Anthony "Tony" Taylor pleaded guilty to dog fighting on March 24, 2009, and received a two-year suspended sentence. Quantis Phillips pleaded guilty to dog fighting on May 6, 2009, and received a three-year suspended sentence. [68]
This later inspired the name "Big Dog" for the brand. [3] However, an alternate version of the story describes Gib Mann, a designer at the company, using the term "Big Dog" throughout conversation when he first joined Sierra West. Mann and Joy Moran designed skirt-like soccer shorts for Patagonia employee and soccer fan, Roger McDivitt.
The celebrity-named hot dogs are often versions ordered by the person in question, such as the "Martha Stewart Dog" with mustard, relish, onions, chopped tomatoes, sauerkraut, bacon, and sour cream. Another is the " Rosie O'Donnell Long Island Dog", which is a 10" dog topped with mustard, onions, chili, and sauerkraut.
Wilber Hardee (1918–2008) opened his namesake restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, on September 3, 1960. [4] After a year of success, Wilber decided to look into expanding his restaurant and opening another location so he met with James Gardner and Leonard Rawls to discuss doing so. [5]