Mel's Drive-In

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Mel's Drive-In refers to two American restaurant chains, the successors of a chain founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California, United States. The original chain operated until the 1970s. A new generation of Mel's Drive-In restaurants then began opening in the 1980s, with the business split into two separate groups: one doing business under the original Mel's Drive-In name and the other under the name Original Mels. Mel's Drive-In became closely associated with the 1973 film American Graffiti after one of its restaurants was used as a filming location. The film's distributor, Universal Studios, licensed the Mel's Drive-In brand to recreate the restaurants in its Universal theme parks.

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