Restaurant | |
Industry | Fast food |
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Founded | November 21, 1960; 59 years ago |
Founder | Jack Caddell |
Headquarters | Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
Number of locations | 182 |
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Products | Fast food (including hamburgers, fried chicken, french fries, soda, milkshakes, breakfast) |
Parent | Jack's Family Restaurants, LP |
Website | eatatjacks.com |
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Jack's, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, originally known as Jack's Hamburgers, also known as Jack's Family Restaurants, Inc. is a fast food restaurant chain with locations in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. It was founded in November 1960 by Jack Caddell as a single walk-up stand in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham and now has 182 locations across the southeast, opening at a rate of about 15 per year.
History[edit]
Jack's was founded on November 21, 1960 by Jack Caddell as a single walk-up stand in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. This location still operates today after several remodels, the most recent in 2019, and is the chains flagship store.[1]
The original menu featured items such as fifteen-cent hamburgers and fries, twenty-cent shakes, and a twenty-cent 'Fish-On-A-Bun.' Jack's rapidly expanded and by the mid-1960s, they had more than a half dozen locations in the Birmingham metro area: the original Homewood store, Roebuck, 3rd Avenue West, Bessemer, Five Points West, Vestavia, Eastwood Mall, Alabaster and Center Point, and additional stores as far away as Mississippi and South Carolina.
A Jack's grand opening was akin to opening night of a new Broadway production. Pictured is the new Jack's Hamburgers in Jasper. circa 1967.
In the mid to late 1970s, Jack's was expanding into south Alabama and the Florida panhandle. In the 1980s many of these locations began to close, but at least one individual was having success with Jack's. Benny LaRussa, primarily involved in the grocery business, had purchased a single franchise in the 1960s. In 1979, LaRussa abandoned groceries and purchased a franchise territory of 13 Jack's stores. From then until 1988 he expanded his territory to 33 stores. Then, in 1988, LaRussa purchased the total franchise rights to the Jack's concept. In 2015, Jack's was acquired by a fund managed by Onex Corporation, a private equity company based in Toronto, Canada.
On July 25, 2019, Onex announced that it had reached a deal to sell Jack's Family Restaurants in a deal expected to close in the third quarter of 2019. The deal finally closed in August 2019. Onex did not disclose the buyer or financial terms of the deal, but Restaurant Business Online reported that AEA Investors, a private equity firm based in New York, is the buyer of the restaurant chain.[2]
In January 2017, a food worker at a Jack's in Columbus, Mississippi reportedly adulterated a hamburger by smearing her own menstrual blood and saliva on it before it was served. The worker pled guilty to a charge of 'selling unwholesome bread or drink' in November 2017.[3]
Trademark design[edit]
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Jack's restaurants were originally walk-up stands with a slanted roof and vertical orange and yellow stripes on each side. In the late 1960s, the chain began converting their walk-up stands to full, dine-in restaurants. Most upgraded restaurants featured faux stone walls.
The original signs were on 5 poles and featured 'Jack's' in five individual white rectangles on top with the word 'Hamburgers' on a separate sign underneath. A small round sign below had the price of the hamburgers, '15¢'. Another sign that shared 3 poles and had 'Fries 15¢ Shakes 20¢' written on it, and the final sign shared the opposite 3 poles and had 'Self-Service' written on it. Several elements had their writing changed over time, and the last one in the chain, Dora, Al, was removed in 2019 during a remodel.
In the mid-1970s, Jack's began using new signage featuring the name written on an angle in white inside a red circle; the word 'Hamburgers' was dropped. In the early 2000s, Jack's changed the logo from the original, all capital font to a mixed-case font. It still appears on the familiar red circle, but the circle is smaller so that the text extends outside of it.
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See also[edit]
- Milo's Hamburgers, another Alabama-based burger restaurant similar to Jack's
References[edit]
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- ^https://www.eatatjacks.com/headlines/homewood-grand-re-opening
- ^ONEX Corporation (2019-08-19). 'Onex Partners Completes Sale of Jack's Family Restaurants' (Press release). Retrieved 2020-05-17 – via GlobeNewswire News Room.
- ^Matney, Mandy (November 10, 2017). 'She smeared menstrual blood on a fast food burger she served. Now she's going to jail'. Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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- Hollis, Tim (November 13, 2010). 'Back to Jack's'. Birmingham Magazine. Retrieved November 21, 2010.
- 'Jack's Hamburgers'. Birmingham Rewound. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
External links[edit]
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