The famed diner chain is slashing prices to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
classic menu items. That means $3.13 buttermilk pancakes, $4.24 “Melburgers” and fries, $2.07 milkshakes, and $4.05 plates of eggs, grilled potatoes and bacon.
"Our customers supported us over all these years, and we wanted to do something fun for them and give them a little price break on everything," Weiss said. The original Mel's, which opened at 140 South Van Ness Ave. in 1947, became such a beacon of 1950s and 1960s neon-litGeorge Lucas, U.S. film director, posing between two cars, with"Mel's Drive-In" in the background, on the set of"American Graffiti," San Francisco, 1973.But eventually, the popularity of carhops died down. By 1972, with 11 locations across Northern California, Mel Weiss and Dobbs had sold Mel’s to the Foster’s chain.
In 1985, though, Mel’s son Steven Weiss decided to revive Mel’s Drive-In with a new location on Lombard Street. This is where things get a little contentious: Two years later, Mel himself decided to get back into the restaurant business with a new Mel's in Walnut Creek. A lawsuit cropped up between father and son, but Mel got to keep the name "Original Mels."
Today, the separate Original Mels chain still exists in cities including San Leandro, Sacramento, Antioch and Reno, although Mel sold the company in 1994, according to theMel's Drive-In first opened in San Francisco in 1947.Courtesy of Mel's Drive-In
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