Burger Chef Locations

Biloxi, MS

444 Porter Avenue

This Burger Chef in Biloxi was a 60s style building.  It closed in the early 70s and the building was demolished.

Posted by: William P. Maner, Jr. | April 26, 2006 at 10:59 PM

The 1970 phone directory for Biloxi and Gulfport shows the address as 444 Porter Avenue to be exact. It may have been torn down more recently, but it survived well into the 1980's as the Jiffy Jac Drive-In, with walk-up service and outdoor seating only. The food was mediocre at best however.

Posted by: John Shaw | November 21, 2006 at 12:35 AM

Gulfport, MS

921 Pass Road

I've eaten my fair share of burgers at Burger Chef.  Along the Mississippi gulf coast, the two main burger chains were McDonald's and Burger Chef.  Burger King had no outlets in the area.  Burger Chef burgers had a different, better taste due to the flame broiled cooking method.

The Pass Road Burger Chef in Gulfport was a 60s style building.  It closed in the early 70s, but the building still stands.  The front part of the building has been remodeled, but the main shell of the building remains.  I was in the building today.  You can see the sloping ceiling.  You can also see the orange diamonds on white panels along the sides of the building.  You can also see remnants of the wrought iron beams and decor along the exterior of the building.  The building now houses a boat/marine supply dealership.

Posted by: William P. Maner, Jr. | April 26, 2006 at 10:59 PM

The Biloxi-Gulfport phone directory for 1970 lists the address as 921 Pass Road in Gulfport.

Posted by: John Shaw | November 21, 2006 at 12:37 AM

Jackson, MS

4565 I-55 N.

Located south of Northside Drive

--R.T.

This is the second location to open in Jackson and appears first in April of 1970.

Posted by: John Shaw | November 18, 2006 at 11:21 AM

149 E Capitol

The original Burger Chef in Jackson was at 149 E Capitol, which would be downtown. It first appears in the Jackson phone directory in 1968.

Posted by: John Shaw | November 18, 2006 at 11:21 AM

1760 Ellis Avenue S.

In the Ellis Isle Shopping Center

--R.T.

In April of 1975, a third location is listed at 1760 Ellis Av S. In May of 1978, only the Ellis Avenue location is listed, and it seems to have continued, until it disappeared from the directory in May of 1982.

Posted by: John Shaw | November 18, 2006 at 11:21 AM

Meridian, MS

My husband remembers one in Meridian, Mississippi...specifically screaming "I WANT BURGER CHEF!" at three or four years old to his mom in the middle of a restaurant!

Posted by: Beth Downey | January 18, 2006 at 12:57 AM

Oxford, MS

West Jasckson Avenue

I found this site through "Test Pattern" on msnbc.com...how wonderful! We had a Burger Chef on West Jackson Avenue (next to Pizza Hut, by the old mall/Malco entrance, just past Country Club Road intersection across from the Fraternity Row campus entrance) in Oxford, Mississippi when I was real little; I was in Happy House Daycare and Kindergarten (before the state made K education mandatory) and we would get Burger Chef as a special lunch. Back then Oxford was so small that there was Burger Chef and Sonic...and that was about it. Getting our first McDonalds was a BIG deal! (of course, now there's two McDonalds, an Applebees, a Home Depot...we're becoming victims of suburban homogenization.) The Burger Chef closed by the time I was six or seven...it became a Mr. Gatti's Pizza, then the recently-closed "Buffalo Cafe" (can't recall whether it was the same building or not, but DEFINITELY the same site!) I miss the taste of a Burger Chef burger to this day, but Burger King comes kind of close.

Posted by: Beth Downey | January 18, 2006 at 12:57 AM

Vicksburg, MS

2900 Clay

Posted by: Robby | April 9, 2007 at 10:24 PM