Does anyone know if Jack in the Box restaurant was called something else Before?

Question

Does anyone know if Jack in the Box restaurant was called something else Before?

Answer 1

e coli in a box

Answer 2

ya ecoli they had a bad problem wit that dont go ther

Answer 3

No

Answer 4

In 1951, a businessman named Robert O. Peterson opened the first Jack in the Box® restaurant in San Diego on the main east-west thoroughfare leading into city. Equipped with an intercom system and drive-thru window, the tiny restaurant served up hamburgers to passing motorists for just 18 cents, while a large jack-in-the-box clown kept watch from the roof.



Along with his Jack in the Box restaurants, Mr. Peterson operated other restaurant concepts as well as a food-manufacturing facility as divisions of a parent company called San Diego Commissary Co.

In 1960, San Diego Commissary changed its name to Foodmaker Co., and Jack in the Box expanded outside of California with the opening of its first restaurants in Phoenix, Ariz. Three years later, Jack in the Box expanded into Texas, where it opened restaurants in the Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth areas.

In 1968, Ralston Purina Co. acquired controlling interest in Foodmaker and operated the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Under Ralston Purina, Jack in the Box restaurants underwent a major expansion in an effort to penetrate the eastern and midwestern markets, and the business grew to more than 1,000 restaurants by 1979.

In 2002, Jack in the Box introduced a new, co-branded concept that combined a full-size Jack in the Box restaurant with the company's proprietary brand of convenience store called Quick Stuff®.

With a long-term goal of becoming a national restaurant company, Jack in the Box entered the fast-casual restaurant category in 2003 with the acquisition of Qdoba Restaurant Corporation, operator and franchiser of Qdoba Mexican Grill.