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Hires Big H

Hires Big H is a family-run drive-in restaurant business founded in Salt Lake City in 1959.

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Hires Big H traces its start to Don Hale’s first restaurant at 400 South and 700 East in Salt Lake City in 1959. Its current menu centers on burgers, fries, onion rings, shakes and root beer. The company’s family history remains part of the brand customers encounter today. [1]

The business also offers catering, online ordering and a shop selling products such as root-beer extract. Those channels extend a drive-in identity beyond a meal at the counter. Its Utah role combines a long-running local restaurant format with products and services customers can use at home or for a gathering. [1]

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  1. Founding, menu and current services

Most sources here are the company’s own, so they describe its activities, not how well its products perform.

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