Welcome to the...
Gino's Hamburgers Tribute Website
. ..A tribute to a fondly remembered former East Coast regional fast food chain.
Courtesy:Rick Smith
An early Gino's in Towson, MD.
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About the Gino's Hamburgers page...
I created this site as a historical tribute to the former Gino's Hamburger chain for the enjoyment of former customers, employees and anyone interested in fast food history. As an "unoficial" hobby site it is not connected with Mariott, Inc.
Images and items on this Website are either from visitors to the site - in which case this source is noted, articles from my personal collection or from items which I purchased on eBay. I gain no monetary profit from the operation of this site or any site I operate, in fact I pay for the use of the server - but the price is well worth being able to help preserve the history of Gino's Hamburgers.
Thanks for visiting, and I hope your visit here is enjoyable. Please e-mail me with your comments.
Site Founded: 04-28-2000
Hits since 10-26-2008
1969 Gino's ad from Reader's Digest
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Audio Files...
A Gino's Hamburgers radio spot from WFIL in Philadelphia with the
"Everybody Goes To Gino's" jingle...
Other Links...
JSF's Burger Chef Website...Another memorable fast food chain.
Tick Tock Toys...A fantastic food archive, 100's of photos!
Gino's Hamburgers Links...
Gino's Is Coming Back!
Gino's Hamburgers on FaceBook...
A photo contribution to the site from Bob McCann proves "Everybody Did Go To Gino's"!...
Bob writes...
I took the greatest photo of a Gino’s scene years ago in New Castle, DE. The restaurant was right next to a Catholic church. The new church was being consecrated by the bishop and all the diocesan priests. When I snapped a picture of the procession, I caught the Gino’s sign in the background. The photo looks as though the procession is headed right for Gino’s. “Everybody goes to Gino’s.” It’s really funny. I just got the 35mm. slide converted to digital. It would look great on your Gino’s Memorial site.
It sure does look great! Thanks Bob!
Please take a moment and sign the Guest Book...
According to information at the Gino's Hamburgers & Chicken Website it was 10,417 days since a Gino's Giant sandwich was last sold until the opening of the first 'new' Gino's Hamburgers and Chicken restaurant. The first of hopefully many new Gino's Restaurants opened at 611 West DeKalb Pike in King of Prussia, Pa. on October 25, 2010 and held a Grand Opening celebration on November 14th, offering customers 1970 prices for three hours and having performers singing the classic "Everybody Goes To Gino's" jingle - which is played regularly inside. A contact who was there for the celebration tells me it drew a big crowd.
Highway sign at the Gino's Hamburgers and Chicken in King of Prussia, Pa.
Photo courtesy J. Partington
Photo from Gino's Hamburgers and Chicken website.
Photo courtesy J. Partington
A performer on stilts at the Grand Opening of Gino's Hamburgers and Chicken in King of Prussia, Pa.
A Gino's Hamburgers radio spot from WFIL in Philadelphia featuring a kid's version of the famous Gino's song...
The First 'New' Gino's Hamburgers...
The following two photos were sent in from a visitor to the site. He spotted some of the original exterior wall tiles exposed at the former Levittown, Pa. Gino's ...
The portion of the wall with the stone facade was where the bench would have been.
A great close up view of the exposed Gino's wall tiles at the former Levittown, Pa. Gino's. These were used on the exteriors of the earlier Gino's locations.
BENSALEM, PA. NEW GINO'S CLOSES
The Gino's in Bensalem, Pa. closed in late January, 2013. It was opened in 2011 with the Company's first Drive-Through window. The Company has written on its Facebook page that the location was closed "due to conflicting interest" and that they are focusing on the remaining six locations and looking forward to future openings. Comments posted on Gino's facebook page mention the location not being good and they felt the prices were high. This closing leaves King of Prussia, Pa. as the only Delaware Valley Gino's location, the other Gino's are in Maryland..
A visitor to my page who worked for Gino's in some South Jersey locations visited the Gino's at King of Prussia, Pa. in April, 2013 and allowed me to use this review he wrote about his experience...
The Gino Giant was even better than I remember. I had a mixed basket of onion rings and fries with it and even tho the old Gino's never had onion rings, they were delicious! All four of us said they were the best onion rings we ever tasted! We all had shakes with our meal and I chose a strawberry milk shake with M&Ms mixed it. Again, it was excellent! We got a bucket of the chicken tenders to take home and had them today. They were fantastic! Fives stars for the food!
Finally, I shared the story that it was more or less a "homecoming" for me since i worked for Gino's back in the day. I must say the employees i met along with the two managers were very kind about that. Considering the fact that my time working for Gino's was LONG before most of them were born, I thought it was quite nice of them!
