Timeline
A single founding date for the company is not so easy as the company evolved from Kewpee.
- 1923 - Original Kewpee location opened.
- 1944 - Kewpee employee Thomas acquires the business that would later be named Halo Burger by leasing the original location.
- 1958 - Thomas buys original location, but not the Kewpee name which was sold to Ed Adams of Toledo.
- 1967 - Adams makes Kewpee a franchise operation. Thomas objects and changes the name of his restaurants to Halo Burger.
- 2010 - Halo Burger sold by the Thomas family to Dortch Enterprises.
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