Fast food and fast casual restaurants devoted to fried seafood may not reach the giddy commercial heights of their burger- and chicken-hawking counterparts, but they've carved out a neat niche for themselves all the same. While not every chain lasts (pour one out for Arthur Treacher's), — and what American city center would be complete ? Then, of course, there's that offers all sorts of fried fare for the usual seafood chain demographics: fish lovers, pescatarians, and Catholics during Lent. But Unlike British chip shops, which generally serve broadly popular offerings like burgers or steak pies alongside fish and chips, most American chains just serve seafood; in a pinch, they'll offer .
The idea of a place like Long John Silver's or Captain D's serving hamburgers just feels wrong. It would be like getting pizza from KFC. And yet, when Captain D's first opened, that's just what happened.
Captain D's once served hamburgers On August 15, 1969, a businessman named Raymond Danner – who founded another chain in the Southeast, Shoney's, alongside Big Boy licensee Alex Schoenbaum – opened Mr. D's Seafood and Hamburgers in Donelson, Tennessee. By this time, there were loads of burger joints across America, and there were plenty more to come.
(Case in point: Mr. D's opened exactly three months before the first Wendy's.) Seafood, on the other hand, was a novelty in an inexpensive, casual dining setting, and Mr.
D's quickly grew in popularity. By 1975, Danner prepared to expand t.
