Harvey's
Harvey's is a fast food restaurant chain that operates in nine Canadian provinces. It serves hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, onion rings, and other traditional fast food fare. Harvey's is known for its fresh grilled burgers, and allowing customers the choice of about ten different toppings such as lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, etc.
Harvey's has sales of $269 million dollars, 345 restaurants, almost 7,000 employees, and 50 million guests annually.
Harvey's is a division of Cara Operations, and some locations are co-branded or located adjacent to fellow Cara chain Swiss Chalet. In the early 1990s Harvey's co-branded other locations with Church's Chicken, an American chain, though that has since been disbanded. A number of Canadian Home Depot locations feature Harvey's restaurants.
Harvey's was founded in 1959 with a location in Richmond Hill, Ontario. In the next few years it began franchising restaurants throughout southern Ontario, later expanding throughout Canada. In the early days Harvey's had a wider selection of topings than it does now.
Slogans
- 1970s-1980s: "Harvey's Makes Your Hamburger a Beautiful Thing"
- early 1990s: "Harvey's: Beautiful Choice"
- 1992? to 1993 "We Make You Spoiled With Charbroiled"
- 1994 to 1995 "When you want, what you want you want, Harvey's"
- early 2000s: "Harvey's Makes Your Hamburger a Beautiful Thing"
- 2003 to current "Long live the grill"
Harvey's in pop-culture
In a memorable skit for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, comedian Rick Mercer and then-Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien talked over a leisurely lunch at a Harvey's.
