Talk:Baker's Drive-Thru

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Vegetarian menu, Seventh day Adventist claim and citation[edit]

This article states "In 1995, it began adding a vegetarian menu to locations, originally called the Loma Linda Kitchen menu due to the predominance of Seventh-day Adventists who are mostly vegetarian[...]". However, since it's Baker's themselves that claim it, should it be reworded to something like "According to the company, they began adding a vegetarian menu to locations, originally called the "Loma Linda Kitchen menu" since it was only available at the Loma Linda location. Baker's Drive Thru states the menu was added due to the predominance of Seventh Day Adventists who they claim were largely vegetarian." ? It's a bit more wordy, and I might be off, new to Wiki helping. Also, to say largely or mostly is a bold claim, according to this article around 35% are vegetarian. Seventh-day_Adventist_Church#Health_and_diet. See http://www.bakersdrivethru.com/about-us/ --LilHelper (talk) 18:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FOOD Tagging[edit]

This article talk page was automatically added with {{WikiProject Food and drink}} banner as it falls under Category:Restaurants or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. You can find the related request for tagging here -- TinucherianBot (talk) 07:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dual Kitchen[edit]

Perhaps, there's something more technical behind the 'dual kitchen' claim, but didn't fellow inland empire chain Del Taco do the mexican+burgers fast food concept as early as 1961, well before Baker's? "Ed Hackbarth and Oavid Jameson opened the first Del Taco in Yermo, CA in 1961. With a menu of 19c tacos, tostadas, fries and 24c cheeseburgers, Oel Taco brought in $169 in sales on its first day in business, the equivalent of 900 tacos." See http://www.deltaco.com/history.html --Jvraba (talk) 16:13, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the sentence, as it has been tagged as unsourced since 2008. --TorriTorri(^talk/_contribs) 00:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to their website's about page "By 1955, Mr. Baker had become a standout in the industry as an innovator in creating America’s First Twin Kitchen® operation – an offering of both American and Mexican entrées – a concept that quickly caught on with the evolving Inland Empire customers.", should it be re-added? See http://www.bakersdrivethru.com/about-us/ --LilHelper (talk) 17:38, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The claim is not of a "dual kitchen" serving fares of two ethnicities; it is that Baker's implemented the *first* "Twin Kitchen" which served Mexican food from one window and American food from another. Del Taco has always served the full menu at all available registers...just as Baker's does now. Baker's still boasts of the Twin Kitchen concept on all of their branding, but they don't throw around the definition since nobody really would care that they innovated a new restaurant concept in 1955 that hasn't been used in several decades. I've edited the article to include and define the "Twin Kitchen" concept.Pcress (talk) 20:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

A brief news search identifies enough significant coverage in reliable sources--possibly only regional--to warrant taking this to AfD. ^Bongo_matic 02:42, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was the result of my brief news search before I PRODed the entry [1]. Here are the results of my brief books search [2]. Please help me understand what I did wrong when I did my searches or post some of your news findings here.Griswaldo (talk) 03:04, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Use the news archive search instead. ^Bongo_matic 03:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The founder, Neal T. Baker might be more notable, and if there are any good histories that deal with American fast food he might even be found in them given the connections mentioned here.

Agreed. Didn't see much on him in a Google books search, though. ^Bongo_matic 03:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can't find anything in books either. One of the few non-local news papers to mention the chain, the Wichita Eagle called it "obscure". The Boston Globe printed the same obituary linked above from the LA Times, in which the chain is called "regional". Barring any good find concerning the founder I think this is of regional notability at best.Griswaldo (talk) 03:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Should lawsuit have its own sub-heading?[edit]

As it now stands, it's a bit jarring to be reading a chronological history, veer off into the lawsuit that wrapped up in the 20-teens, then suddenly be back at 1995 in the next paragraph of the chronological history. Might read better if the lawsuit info were moved to a sub-heading. SiimaTamba (talk) 14:42, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]