Wally’s Burger – End of an Era

I just had a burger, fries and a large banana shake at Wally's this evening. If you have never been there...check it out before they close. Tasty burgers, decent fries...and the shake was awesome!
God Bless!
Monty

I guess not, but if they deliver in Slovenia, please ask them to make a round trip to Romania, too.

I do not eat burgers often but this picture of burger made me :smile: hungry.
Do they deliver burgers in :shock: Slovenia?

I haven't been to the Wally's Burger joint in 26 years - a place we frequented while in high school. I had no idea it was still open until you mentioned it was closing down. I guess all good things must come to an end. Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to stop in for one last nostalgic burger.

Hi John & Peeps,

I can't believe this...!

My friend drove past it on Monday and I was thinking on how I had never gone inside, never even tried one of their world famous burgers and wondering what I would do if someone decided they wanted to really go to Wally's Burger... could I resist?

It was like 'well, I've never been there before, and it's been so long now... so why bother going now...'...

and now that option's being taken away from me...

Now I can't go "I'm stickin' to my guns I refuse to go to Wally's Burgers"...

I never would have guessed that it was lime green... the building, NOT the burgers in case anyone was wondering... ; P

God Bless,
Yoon

Never been to Wally's but I just finished watching the bionic burger on Youtube. Would Wally's burgers react the same way?

10 blocks away from where I live but never went there before. I don't remember there is any competition over there. Few Chinese restaurants and Churches chicken, and MacDonald is over at Victoria.

haha, just saw the clip now. Nice work in front of the camera John.
So are we going there on Saturday? I have not tried a burger there before! :grin:

Hey John,

When I read Wally's Burgers was closing I was both shocked and disappointed, but not really surprised. Every time I drive by the sign it makes me smile. Now what am I supposed to smile at on Kingsway? :sad:

Huge companies will strike down all that is good!

How about Chow Burgers?

The John Chow/Cow Diner?
Thats gone a ring to it!

Should have shouted "John Chow Dot Com" on the way out the door. :cool:

Why all the excellent ideas go to John??

That is an EXCELLENT idea. John, you could hire a good manager to run it and make passive income off of it. Then you can frequent it like you used to and continue eating those burgers. That will also give me time to head out there and try the place out.

I reckon you should try and buy the premises and run a burger bar called "John Cow" (with the guy who runs JohnCow.com)

We have a Tasty Freeze in Melbourne FL that's been here since 1952, I think it's one of the original stores. The place is a dump, but everyone still goes there and you have to wait 10 to 15 minutes to get ice cream on a Fri or Sat night. I can't imagine it will last much longer. The pace of progress is gobbling up these nostalgic little diners and ice cream shops and that's a bummer.

Bummer, those onion rings sure did look good. At least you got to be on TV, no fair!

Now I'm hungry!

Chow and food never far apart :D

That's sad, really sad... I had no idea. I visited there two years ago when I went on vacation in Vancouver. A place that's been around since the 60's, closing down! Unbelievable, unbelievable! Big industries just ruin everything.

www.TalkPrice.net

I'll take a greasy, sloppy locally owned burger over any franchise burger any day.

John,
It sucks..looks like good food. Made me want to get a burger all of the sudden.

The Dot Com Mogul is even more famous!

Aw that sucks! Nice tv shots, lookin' good.

You need to be wearing your JohnChow.com T-Shirt for those types of things John :lol:

Times are changing and small businesses are being replaced by big box stores and big restaurants. You would think if something is popular it would be able to remain a part of the community. I've never been to Wally's so I don't know how good the burgers are, but I'll take John's word for it that they are.
~Terry

It's sad, but the "little guy" CAN compete with the big franchises and corps. This apparently stems from a problem with the lease. If the business has been ther for 50 yrs, why do they not own the property? Was the new "owner" leasing the property from the former owner?

Seems like you got a lot of FACE TIME :)

-Mike

Another chance to go into main stream media :) Good job John!

Never heard about Wally's coz nothing like than in New Delhi India.

Here we have McDonalds and Nirulas (Indian Brand but Awesome) and not to forget KFC.

If Nirulas closes i would seriously die!!! :???: :cry:

You looked great, John! Always a pleasure seeing your handsome face! HeHe! Actually, reminds me of a neat burger joint in my old college town in Starkville, MS called Christie's. Pretty darn yummy!!

that sucks lol

Maybe they will put an In-n-Out Burger joint there...which would make up for Wally's closing in spades.

What does it cost to keep a place like this open? $50,000? With all the money you make online maybe it is time to invest in something like a burger place. If you were truly sad you would perform a John Chow buy out. Seriously, it is probably pocket change for a guy like you. Why dont you diverisfy and keep wally burger open?

John, looks like a good burger but you must work out all the time...how do you stay so thin when you eat lunch out all the time? :shock:

haha, so ridiculous... even when it isn't about your blog, you still get on tv! :twisted:

Too bad... never been in that place anyway. :)

Hate to here that :sad:

Maybe the surge of support, they will change their mind :smile:

All the old burger joints I went to as a child are now closed.

There is nothing like a good burger joint. Never been to Wally's, but I heard it's good. Sorry to see it go.

First time seeing John in YouTube on CBC News talking about burger, other than 'Making Money Online' :lol:

It really stinks seeing things like this disappear.

That's a shame that the city does not want Wally's there, it seems. Here we lost our drugstore/soda shop thanks our town's greed. The place had been open for about as long as Wally's had. Such a shame that it all comes down to greed.

Only 13 comments?? Well this is my first comment here but I read JohnChow for many months...I just wanna say Hi! I'm from Spain and havent ever been in Wally's ...