A brief history of Burger Man

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I spent last night watching The Founder, a Netflix movie that chronicles Ray Kroc’s rise from struggling milkshake mixer salesman to McDonald’s magnate. It reminded me that the road to billions and billions sold is paved with also-rans, such as the original McDonald’s, which Dick and Mac renamed “The Big M” and closed six years after Kroc bought the company. In Indiana, we had Burger Chef. In East-Central Indiana and parts of Ohio, we had Burger Man.

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