Checkers Drive-In
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. (NASDAQ: CHKR) is an American fast food restaurant chain operating under the names Checkers and Rally's Hamburgers.
Currently, the company operates 407 Checkers restaurants and 389 Rally's restaurants across the country. They both specialize in hamburgers, french fries, and milkshakes. The menus of the two restaurants are nearly identical, differing in that Checkers menu includes additional larger hamburgers. Unlike other fast food chains, most stores do not have inside seating; instead, one can either drive in and pick up food or sit outside under an umbrella at a patio table. If one chooses the latter option, he or she is able to walk up to the traffic window in front of the establishment and order there instead of using a car.
Originally separate companies serving different geographic areas, Checkers and Rally's Hamburgers, Inc merged in August 1999. The joint company houses its headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Checkers was founded in 1986 in Mobile, Alabama, and went public in 1991. Rally's was founded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1985.