Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. As of 2011, Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, one in Chile, one in Italy, one in Mexico, one in Panama, one in Dominican Republic, four in Puerto Rico and ten in Saudi Arabia. The company headquarters is in Houston, Texas. Fuddruckers was founded as Freddie Fuddruckers in 1979 by Philip J. Romano in San Antonio, Texas, in a location converted to a restaurant from an old bank. He started the chain because he thought that the "world needed a better hamburger." The Fuddruckers concept was to offer large hamburgers in which the meat was ground on-site and buns were baked on the premises and hamburgers and other dishes were offered with "lots of fresh sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce and vats of cheese sauce." In California, Fuddruckers competed at the high end of the fast food market agains...