Nation's Giant Hamburgers

Nation's Giant Hamburgers
Outside of Nation's in El Cerrito, California
Nation's Giant Hamburgers
Type Nation’s Foodservice, Inc.
Private
Founded San Pablo, California, USA (1952)
Headquarters 11090 San Pablo Avenue, Suite 200
El Cerrito, California, 94530-2365
(510) 237-1952
Area served Northern California
Key people President and CEO: Dale Power
VP: Grant Power[1]
Website NationsRestaurants.com

Nation's Giant Hamburgers, or simply Nation's, is a privately-held El Cerrito, California-based fast food diner chain.

The chain, founded in 1952, largely operates in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] The majority (87.5%) of locations are focused in the suburban Greater East Bay; consisting of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties. [3]

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History

Harvey's Giant Hamburgers

Russ Harvey bought a six-stool hot dog stand on San Pablo's 23rd Street in 1952 with money he obtained through the sale of his 1948 Buick.[2] He subsequently added hamburgers to the menu of the hot dog restaurant with a focus on large portions.[2] This gastronomic decision proved successful with the clientele. The restaurant's name was changed to Harvey's Giant Hamburgers.[2]

Dale Power

In 1961 local teenager Dale Power was hired as a janitor and continued his employment from high school to bachelor's and master's degrees at the nearby University of California, Berkeley.[2] In 1970 he purchased his first restaurant in the Jack London Square District in neighboring Oakland.[2]

Partnership and expansion

He christened it Nation's; the name was decided upon under the belief that they sold the best hamburgers in the nation.[2] At this point Russ Harvey changed the name of his restaurant to Nation's as the two men became partners under a unified brand.[2]

More items were added to the menu over time including breakfast, lunch, and dinner items and award winning pies.[2]

Currently Powers remains with the company as CEO and president, while Harvey has retired.[2] The company has expanded to 24 locations as of 2009 with eateries in six counties.[3]

Remodeling

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s Nation's remodeled its restaurants with long hanging lights, Thomas McKnight lithographs alongside historical photographs of the individual restaurants' neighborhoods, a tangerine, mocha, and beige color scheme, in addition to new easier to read menus.[4]

Front counter of El Cerrito, California location.

Locations

The chain has eight locations in Alameda County with locations in Alameda, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Oakland, Pleasanton and San Leandro.[3] There are four in Solano County with branches in Benicia, Fairfield, Vacaville and Vallejo.[3]

Furthermore there are ten locations in Contra Costa County including Concord, El Cerrito, Moraga, Orinda, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, San Ramon, San Pablo, Tara Hills, the only location in an unincorporated area and the newest location in Brentwood. The original San Pablo location is no longer open and the current San Pablo Nation's is located at San Pablo Avenue and San Pablo Dam Road.[3]

There are three Nation's locations in other counties with an isolated eatery in Daly City in San Mateo County the only Nation's in the San Francisco Peninsula, Napa in the county of the same name, and lastly another distant restaurant in the Central Valley city of Tracy in San Joaquin County.[3]

Finally, expansion has brought the chain out of the Bay Area and in to the Sacramento Valley. The first location is on Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights.[3]

Menu

The "giant" burgers although credited for weighing 3/4 pounds (0.34 kg) and tasting good have been criticized for most of their 3/4 lbs. coming from the vegetable toppings.[5] These burgers offer toppings including, cheese, beef, salmon, lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, onions, and miracle whip. Other sandwiches include BLTs, hot dogs and variants such as chili dogs, egg, sausage, bacon, and hashbrown breakfasts. The chain also offers sodas, coffee, tea, milkshakes, and about a dozen types of pie.[6]

References

External images
First Nation's in San Pablo
Vintage appearance of Oakland location
Nation's waitresses, c 1960s
  1. ^ http://www.ifmaworld.com/docs/coex/CX09O.pdf
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Company Information, NationsRestaurants.com, access date 13-03-2009
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Nation's Restaurant Location List, NationsRestaurants.com, access date 13-03-2009
  4. ^ Nation's Cook up whole new look, Contra Costa Sun, March 20, 1996, access date 13-03-2009
  5. ^ Sweet pies are the real stars at Bay Area fast-food franchise, by Jack Turner, March 10, 2009, access date 13-03-2009
  6. ^ Menu, NationsRestaurants.com, access date 13-03-2009

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