[familyofman]

Hard to beleive but when the Big Mac was first introduced by a Pittsburgh franchise owner (without corporate approval) The corpoate bigwigs tried to have them taken out of the outlets. Only after a legal battle did the Golden Arches finally embrace the new concept of the Big Mac.

The Big Mac closely resembles a 2 tier hamburger that had been sold at the Eat 'N Park restaurants for years under the name of the Big Boy.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bob Swain's "Big Boy" chain of drive-thru restaurants introduced the double decker hamburger in the 1950s.