Dick’s celebrates 72 years with 19-cent burger deal this week

In celebration of Dick’s Drive-In’s 72nd birthday, the Seattle staple burger joint will supply 19-cent burgers at a number of places between Monday and Thursday.

The custom stems all the way in which again to Dick’s roots, the place the corporate first provided cheeseburgers for less than 19 cents at its grand opening when 35-cent burgers had been the norm, Dick’s Drive-In announced.

“Many show up with the same goal they’ve had for decades: getting a hamburger or cheeseburger (and fries and a shake) that tastes the way they always have since 1954,” Dick’s Drive-In acknowledged. “What makes it special isn’t just the price — it’s what the price represents: a connection to the earliest days of Dick’s Drive-In and, through it, the memories made here for more than seven decades.”

Dick’s Drive-In will present 19-cent burgers all through the week, with the occasion kicking off on the Everett and Wallingford places on Monday. On Tuesday, Dick’s will supply its particular deal solely at its Broadway, Holman Road, and Kent places.

On Wednesday, the Dick’s Drive-In at Queen Anne, Crossroads, and Lake City will supply the deal. Finally, the 19-cent burger occasion will finish on Thursday on the Dick’s Edmonds and Federal Way places. Each 19-cent burger is one per buyer who’s current.

The historical past behind Dick’s Drive-In’s 19-cent burger custom

Founded by Dick Spady, Warren Ghormley, and Dr. B.O.A. “Thom” Thomas, Dick’s Drive-In opened on January 28, 1954. In these days, the restaurant invited prospects to exit their vehicles and order meals on the window via a quick-service mannequin that Dick’s claimed “many people doubted would work in a rainy city.”

Dick’s opened by providing 19-cent burgers, regardless of the common value of a burger being roughly 35 cents throughout city on the time. The first Dick’s Drive-In grand opening was delayed by one in every of Seattle’s worst blizzards, which dumped greater than 20 inches of snow on the town.

Once the climate cleared up, the Wallingford Dick’s Drive-In was born on Jan. 28 and was instantly embraced by Seattle, which continues to today.

“That detail is still fitting today, because part of Dick’s anniversary tradition includes Seattle weather,” Dick’s Drive-In acknowledged. “Every year, people show up in the January conditions with the same enthusiasm Dick’s customers brought in 1954, proving that burgers and community can outlast a little cold.”

Stop by the closest Dick’s Drive-In location and rejoice its greater than 70-year legacy within the metropolis by grabbing one in every of Seattle’s most interesting cheeseburgers for less than 19 cents this week.

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