Baker's Drive-Thru
Baker's Drive-Thru is a chain of fast-food restaurants located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The menu features a selection of items such as hamburgers, french fries, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and milkshakes.
Inspired by the success of McDonald's, Neal Baker founded his first restaurant in 1952, calling it "Baker's Burgers." Three years later, Baker added Mexican food to the menu. Burgers were sold at one window and Mexican food at another; he called this the "Twin Kitchen" concept. After struggling for over 30 years to make Bakers a success, Baker hired Joe Amlani to conduct a complete overhaul on the concept and establish their operations as they exist today.
In 1995, it began adding a vegetarian menu to locations, originally called the Loma Linda Kitchen menu due to the prevalence of vegetarians in Loma Linda; Seventh-day Adventists, who are traditionally vegetarian, comprise about half the population of the city of Loma Linda. The first two locations that featured this menu were in Loma Linda and Yucaipa. As of February 2013, the vegetarian menu has been added to 21 locations.
