If you love seafood, then this restaurant will be on the top of your list. Shrimp Boats was a famous seafood restaurant popular between 1955 and 1974. Their store locations grew to a total of 95 at its peak.
While most of their stores have now closed, there are still seven independent chains open until this day, located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Nedick’s
This chain started in New York City, in 1913, and expanded throughout the 1950s. They also had locations in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. Do you guys want to know how they started?
Remarkably, they originally only sold an orange drink! Over time, they added coffee, donuts, and hot dogs to their menu.
Nedick’s
Since there was a lot of competition (from the likes of McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts), the chain closed in 1981.
In addition to the competition they were up against, they also got a lot of criticism, in their Central Park Zoo location, for having bad quality food.
Shrimp Boats
We all love shrimp, so if you’re craving some, this place will definitely be able to satisfy it. Really, who could say no?
Personally speaking, Shrimp Boats is a place that’s given us a lot of fond memories to look back on. Do you have any memories in this place?
Top Hat
Okay, so we know that we have listed a lot of White Castle copy-cats in this list, but here’s one with a different spin to it, which makes it as compelling as the others. Top Hat was first brought into the world of fast food business by Peter Everet Westberg, and Fred A. Simonsen, in Detroit, Michigan in 1955.
While most White Castle replicas were created from the outside looking in, Westberg and Simonsen had the benefit of insider knowledge, since the pair were both former White Castle employees.