This kind of stuff was going on back when I was a teenager

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[MickinMD]

In my late teen years, '67 - '70, the picture below is what I was often doing when I wasn't going to school or making out at the drive-in on a weekend night.

In 1971 I got a job on campus doing chemistry research and it was chemistry ever since, but working at Gino's paid my first two year's college tuition.

This picture is from another fast-food chain, but it's the same as at Ginos, where you laid out 4 columns of six 1/8-lb. hamburgers and the same with the bun bottoms on the grill. The bun tops went open-face up into a tray where mustard then ketchup were applied - mustard first so it won't touch the meat because it dries it out, then moistening ketchup 2nd so it will be next to the meat.  When a ring appeared around the cooking burgers, it was time to turn them over - I could flip six at a time with one motion of the spatula. Salt, pepper and onions were applied. Then cheese on those destined to be cheeseburgers.  The bottoms were then placed on the burgers, four at a time, and they were lifted, four at a time, with a spatula and placed on the tops in the tray which would be right behind the grill man.

I could make 48 hamburgers/cheeseburgers at a time - double what's shown - when there was a Friday or Saturday night rush and my grill assistant was moved to work the counter.

Here's our other burger, the Gino Giant, which was copied by McDonald's as the Big Mac:

I also worked the chicken area and deep fried 18 pieces of KFC chicken in each of 6 pressure cookers.  In the 60's and 70's there were no KFC restaurants in Maryland: you had to go to Gino's to buy Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken. The chicken "Dinner" was 2 pieces of chicken, small fries, and a 12 oz. soft drink for 75 cents around 1970!  When my friends ordered it on the rare days I worked the counter, I'd sneak-in an extra piece of chicken:

Our restaurant looked much like this:

The chain went out of business in the later 70's, but there is a small chain that has been revived that exists today:

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2 minutes ago, Dottie said:

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Back off!

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19 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

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@what?

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This may be @Square Wheels new car:

[Ralphie]

You should be a pawn star, dr mick, with all that historical info!  I remember Gino’s!  There was one right near my work. The building has been through hard times but is still there. 

My favourite story was a Vietnamese guy at work who got faared from Gino’s because he got blamed for burning up a batch of chicken. His boss had told him to wash the machine, so he washed it real good, but the chicken burned. The miss got real mad and said “ I thought I told you to watch the machine?”. 

“ I did, I washed it real good”

 

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4 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

This may be @Square Wheels new car:

I sure hope so, four guys better be going over it making sure everything is as ordered.