Welcome.....
My interest in the former Biff-Burger drive-in began during my childhood when I frequently visited the Biff-Burger located in Hummels Wharf, Pennsylvania. Sadly, this location closed after 35 years of service and was torn down in 2001.
As a tribute, I created and continue to manage a website to document and preserve the history of the former Biff-Burger chain (National Biff-Burger System), for all to enjoy and reminisce.
Today, only two Biff-Burger locations still exist.... The 3939 49th Street North location in St. Petersburg, Florida which still uses the same name and has many of the original "classic" biff-burger architectural features. The second location, re-named to Beef-Burger during the 1980s, however is still referred to as biff-burger by the locals, is located at 1040 West Lee Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Please feel free to share your experiences and stories of a former Biff-Burger location.
C. Catherman
Biff-Burger Fan and Historian
24 comments:
Dear Biff-Burger,
Thanks for your insight and comment on my 'Biff' feature!
Regards, Rod / Thoughts At Large
At the Biff-Burger closest to me, the one in front of Plant High School in Tampa, a couple of times a year the franchise owner would bring in trampolines for its customers to jump on (for a small fee, of course). Definitely a personal injury attorney's dream come true these days. We'd fill ourselves up on fast food and jump up & down until we were sick!
I really enjoy visiting your site. What's weird, I can vividly remember my experiences going to the Biff Burger in Marion, Indiana. Always great memories.
I only wish the chain was revived. It would be a good investment.
HI MY NAME IS JACKIE. I LIVE IN HOUSTON TEXAS AND AS A CHILD I LOVED BIFF BURGER. I'M 54 YEARS OLD AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE BIFF BURGER COME BACK TO HOUSTON, TEXAS. PLEASE SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO BY BRINGING IT BACK. I GRANT YOU, YOU COULD NOT GO WRONG BY BRINGING BIFF BURGER BACK TO HOUSTON. HOUSTON IS A BOOMING TOWN. IF YOU PUT BIFF BURGER BACK ON WESLYN BY WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE I GUARANTEE BIFF BURGER WOULD NOT GO UNDER. PLEASE BRING BIFF BURGER BACK TO HOUSTON, TEXAS THANK YOU
PLEASE COME BACK TO MIDDLE GA! the building that is now at 49 and 41 hgy. never did open after being moved almost 35 years ago-i was told that the owner was told it had evil spirits. the place is mostly complete w/rotrobroild sign out front.even the menu is still up. i use to eat there when it was in warner robins.
It's so sad to hear the last Biff Burger store closed in PA. I remember my mom taking my brother and I there for lunch everytime we went shopping in Selinsgrove. They had THE BEST burgers! Bring back the BIFF, I mean, the SUPER BIFF WITH CHEESE!!!
I just went to the Biff-Burger in St. Pete yesterday. I ate TWO Biff Burgers with sauce. The waitresses seemed oblivious to the fact that there were people still pining for them and that there was some discussion on the web about it. The burgers were VERY close to the ones I remembered but the menu was huge and they have a huge breakfast menu as well with REAL breakfast. She told me what the sauce was but I really don't think she told me the whole truth...LOL! It is actually mostly ketchup based but still imparted whatever that "special" little twangy flavor is. The Jamaica dog is also still on the menu. Remember those with the shaved bun? It seems to be a hangout for car and bike enthusiasts. But it was worth the stop.. I will go back.. hey, it's only two hours away.
My partner Frank and I found Biff-Burger In ST Pete, shortly after moving here from Mass. Both remembering the 50's, we immediately identified with the concept and food.
We try to bring all our visitors to experience Biffs. Our best friends Jim & Marcia, and both our brothers and their families insist on visiting Biffs when they are here fron New England. It's a treat to visit and enjoy Biffs every time.
Ernie C.
St Pete Fl
My wife and I passed the Biff Burger in Hummels Wharf, PA on a trip north to New York state in the mid-80's. We joked about the name on our trip, wondering who "Biff" was. On the way back south we decided to stop there just so we could say we ate at "Biff Burger." It was 2:30 in the afternoon, we had eaten lunch and it was too early for dinner. We decided to get just one burger with sauce and split it between us. We did -- and then we went back in and both got another whole burger each. The sauce was fantastic! It's sad that the PA location has closed.
Oh how well I remember going with my family to the Biff Burger on the Queensway in Toronto, Canada. We loved the burgers dipped in the sauce and how my Dad loved to order a "shake". It was a great family outing "sitting in the car" in those days (late 50's)eating a burger and shake. Could hardly wait until the next week we would be going back again as a "treat"
Wish they would bring them back again but sometimes memories are sweeter.
Lorna Toronto, Ontario Canada.
My best memory of the Biff-Burger in Hixson (Chattanooga), Tennessee, was that, as a special reward for doing well on a test at school, I was allowed to get one of the Biff-Burger chopped weiner sandwiches (don't remember what they were named) which were slathered with their wonderful sauce! I've told a lot of people about Biff-Burger, and most of them think it's a figment of my imagination, but it's nice to know that the next time I'm in (or near) St. Pete, I can actually prove there is still such a place. Thanks for helping one of my fondest memories live again!
What a wonderful discovery today over the net. My friends at work and I were sharing memories of the 1960's and fast food places. I brought up Biff Burger and we agreed they were the most unique, best tasting burgers we could remember. My Mom would take my sister and I to the one in Winston Salem, NC about once every week or two, usually on a Sunday after church... great memories. Thank you for all the work making these sites so we can look back and revive the memories. I can almost taste those burgers as I recall our visits. I plan on a road trip to Greensboro to Beef Burger to see if they still taste as I remember them, I'm lucky to be close to one of the two remaining restaurants! I will definitely be sharing my experience! Thanks again for the Biff Burger history and franchise story.
Wow!!! You mean a Biff Burger still exixts!!! I grew up in the small town of Gadsden, Alabama and ours closed down in the early/mid 80's. I remember the Biff Burger very well. Still the best tasting burger I've ever had.
Thanks to this website, luck is on my side. Only 2 left (Greensboro and St. Pete). I live in Charlotte, which is less than an hour from Greensboro and I visit Orlando once a year, which is also less than an hour from St. Pete. I'll let you know how it turned out. THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU!!!
Our family ALWAYS stopped at one of the Biff-Burgers in Tampa on our way to my grandparents home in old Sun City during the mid to late 60s. The particular Biff-Burger we stopped at had the best deviled crab rolls ever! They were fabulous!
IN OUR SMALL TOWN OF PALATKA FL BIFF BURGER WAS THE ONLY "CHAIN" FAST FOOD PLACE I CAN REMEMBER AS A KID. IT WAS LOCATED IN THE PARKING LOT OF A SHOPPING PLAZA THAT CONTAINED A SKATING RINK AND A MOVIE THEATRE. EVEN SANTA CAME TO THE SEARS THERE EVERY YEAR. THIS WAS TRULY THE "CAPITOL" OF FUN IN OUR LITTLE TOWN.
We lived in Winston-Salem, NC and about once a week Mom would take my
Grandmother, sister and me to the Biff Burger on Corporation Parkway.
How we loved those delicious burgers
and eating on the concrete tables below the big metal umbrellas. I liked pickle relish on my burger and
remember fighting the yellow jackets
at the condiment counter to get at the relish. Oh what happy days those were! Thank you so very much for the great website!
I was lucky enough to frequent Biff Burger #1 located in the West Ashley area near Charleston, SC. Two things I recall as a small child then were the tater tots which had to be the first served by any fast food establishment and the small multicolor swirl "super ball" toys that were dispensed from a gumball type machine in the lobby. I have tried to find a picture of Biff Burger #1, but no one seems to recall it being there. Thanks to your website though, I have all the proof of its existance necessary, although a nostalgic photo would be nice to have. -Keith C. in Charleston.
date night was friday night in our little town of pahokee, fl on the shore of lake okeechobee...
my girl and i were 16 and would go to the local drive-in theater in nearby belle glade, then back to pahokee to hit the biff burger for a sack of fries to munch on as we made the circuit through "downtown", up to the levee overlooking the lake, and back again in a constant circle...
that was 1970, and we were married the following year at age 17, had two girls by age 20 and a boy ten years later...next week on december 18 we will celebrate our 37th anniversary, have four grandkids and a good life in sebring, fl only about sixty miles from pahokee.
pahokee is an agricultural town in western palm beach county, and the sugar cane business is dying off, and along with it pahokee and belle glade; the biff burger closed in pahokee long ago, and though the belle glade location lasted longer, it too is now history...and what a history it is to us...biff burger is one of our brightest and fondest memories and we will never forget it.
fran and terry curtiss, sebring, fl.
I moved to Greensboro, NC in 1971 and have been enjoying Biff/Beef Burgers several times a year ever since. I like to get one biff and one cheese burger with extra sauce. They are still wonderful. The Greensboro store always posted autographed posters/photos of various celebrities, wrestlers, sports people who appeared at the Greensboro Coliseum which was a short distance down High Point Road. Thanks for your great info
My uncle used to own the Biff Burger in Tallahassee, Fl. I remember when they had a price war with McDonald's after one of them raised the price of a hamburger from 15 to 18 cents.
Hello:
My name is Jim and my friends and I used to go to the Biff-Burger at the Junction, in Toronto, about 4 times per week. The food was great ( a Biff-Burger, fries and a shake ) and we would meet our friends there during the week. We all had cars, hot rods or customized, souped-up, 1954-1967 Fords, Chevy's, Dodge's, etc. It was a fantastic meeting place to show off our cars, meet and be with friends........ eat, talk and have fun for hours. Saturdays and Sundays we would spend hours there. Thank you Biff-Burger for all the great memories of our youth and happy times in the 50's and 60's!
the one in warner robins ga. was the best place for a burger. the old building was moved outside of byron and never reopened.it still there-most of it original including the sign.
bbdynomite
I will always remember the Biff on the Golden Strip in Hummels Wharf Pa. When I was a kid my girl frind lived near the Biff. We new we could have a good time there with our friends aslong as we had a dollar in our hand. You could get fries, biff and a drink. Plus site with friends. Then when I had children I even took them there. They loved it. Wish the place never closed.
Thank for the memories! Love the Web site, am telling everone about it.
I miss the Okeechobee Biff
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