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Jack's

  • United States
  • Since 1960
  • $
  • 5 burgers · 0 made at home

Alabama’s home-grown fast-food chain, where biscuits share the menu with the Big Jack.

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About Jack's

Jack Caddell opened a walk-up burger stand in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, on 21 November 1960. Hamburgers and fries cost fifteen cents and shakes twenty. The original building, remodelled several times, still serves as the chain’s flagship.

Jack’s is a very Southern fast-food chain. Breakfast biscuits are its best-known food, fried chicken and fried pies share the menu, and it was one of the first chains to advertise directly to children, sponsoring a local Popeye TV show. It is growing quickly again, opening around twenty restaurants a year.

About 280 restaurants across the Deep South, all company-owned, with the original Homewood stand still open.

Burger menu

Signature burgers first. Only burgers and sandwiches, no sides.

Not affiliated with Jack's. Trademarks and logos belong to their owners. Descriptions are my own; nutrition figures come from the chain’s published information, checked September 2026.