Hamburgeria

Whatever public relations firm handles McDonald’s hamburgerias must be at the point of exhaustion.

Place is a deluxe hamburgeria and is rapidly becoming the “in” place for socialites […]

On the way home, a stop at a well-known hamburgeria gave an opportunity for comparison.

As is to be expected, Bellingham has a number of respectable hamburgerias.

Max, a gloom monger since the death of his WASPy-wife Janey, first meets Nora at the White Palace hamburgeria where she works, and later at a redneck dive where he goes to do what one does at such places, namely, drink until you’re more depressed than when you first got there.

The recent news of a corporate takeover, which is forecast to transform 381 Wimpy bars into Burger King outlets and so precipitate a High Street hamburger war with McDonald’s, signalled the end of an era for those seminal hamburgerias of the swinging Sixties that were so often confused with a construction company or Popeye’s cartoon companion of the same name.

The land of the trattoria and the pizzeria is under assault from the hamburgeria, in the shape of McDonald’s.