Ollie’s Trolley
John Y. Brown Jr. was best known as the man who developed Col. Harland Sanders’ Kentucky Friend Chicken into a huge national chain. In the ‘70s, he tried to do this with the spiced burger he discovered at a North Miami Beach restaurant. The story has it that he told Oliver Gliechenhaus, the inventor of the burger, that he was about to become “bigger than the Colonel.” When 1976 rolled in, there were nearly a hundred locations of the streetcar-themed restaurant all over the country. Unfortunately, the burgers did not make it big, and the restaurants had been too small to come with drive-thrus. In those days, customers wanted to simply get their food and eat elsewhere. Despite this, there are still three locations. You can find them in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Washington, D.C.
Ollie’s Trolley
