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A '''cheeseburger''' is a [[hamburger]] with one or more slices of melted [[cheese]] on top of the meat [[patty]], added near the end of the cooking time. Cheeseburgers can include variations in structure, ingredients and composition. As with other hamburgers, a cheeseburger may include various condiments and other toppings such as [[lettuce]], [[tomato]], [[onion]], [[pickled cucumber|pickles]], [[bacon]], [[avocado]], [[mushrooms]], [[mayonnaise]], [[ketchup]], and [[mustard (condiment)|mustard]].
A '''cheeseburger''' is a [[hamburger]] with one or more slices of melted [[cheese]] on top of the meat [[patty]], added near the end of the cooking time. Cheeseburgers can include variations in structure, ingredients and composition. As with other hamburgers, a cheeseburger may include various condiments and other toppings such as [[lettuce]], [[tomato]] and [[ketchup]].


In [[fast food restaurant]]s across the United States, [[processed cheese]] is usually used, although other meltable cheeses are used, such as [[Cheddar cheese|cheddar]], [[Swiss cheese (North America)|Swiss]], [[Mozzarella cheese|mozzarella]], [[blue cheese]], or [[pepper jack cheese|pepper jack]]. Virtually all restaurants that sell hamburgers also offer cheeseburgers.
In [[fast food restaurant]]s across the United States, [[processed cheese]] is usually used, although other meltable cheeses are used, such as [[Cheddar cheese|cheddar]], [[Swiss cheese (North America)|Swiss]], [[Mozzarella cheese|mozzarella]], [[blue cheese]], or [[pepper jack cheese|pepper jack]]. Virtually all restaurants that sell hamburgers also offer cheeseburgers.
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Adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in the 1920s. There are several competing claims as to who created the first cheeseburger. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger in 1924 at the age of 16. He was working as a fry cook at his father's [[Pasadena, California]], sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot", and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.pasadena-chamber.org/blog/plaque-commemorating-invention-cheeseburger-pasadena-dedicated-la-financial-credit-union | title=Plaque commemorating invention of the cheeseburger in Pasadena dedicated at LA Financial Credit Union | website=Pasadena Chamber of Commerce }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-jan-16-la-me-burger-claim-20120116-story.html |title=Pasadena claims its slice of burger history |last=Piasecki |first=Joe |date=January 16, 2012 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=October 15, 2017 |issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Harvey |title=Only in L.A. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=B2 |date=March 27, 1991 |quote=Cooking at his father's short-order joint in Pasadena in the early 1920s, [Sternberger] experimentally tossed a slice (variety unknown) on a hamburger... |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-27-me-812-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Perry |title=It's an L.A. Thing; Our burgers are the best with good reason: We made them here first |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=F1 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/09/food/fo-hamburger9/2 |date=June 9, 2004 |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025200223/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/09/food/fo-hamburger9/2 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 13, 2012 |title=Yes, it was invented in Pasadena! Probably. Tracing the cheeseburger from inception to Bob's Big Boy |newspaper=[[Pasadena Sun]] |url=http://articles.pasadenasun.com/2012-01-13/entertainment/30625308_1_bob-s-big-boy-pasadena-museum-menu |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Joe |last=Piasecki |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129180714/http://articles.pasadenasun.com/2012-01-13/entertainment/30625308_1_bob-s-big-boy-pasadena-museum-menu |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 23, 1999 |title=The Tale of the Cheeseburger |newspaper=[[San Gabriel Valley Tribune]] |url=http://www.culturefreak.com/tale.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030412174753/http://www.culturefreak.com/tale.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 12, 2003 |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Evan |last=Henerson}}</ref>
Adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in the 1920s. There are several competing claims as to who created the first cheeseburger. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger in 1924 at the age of 16. He was working as a fry cook at his father's [[Pasadena, California]], sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot", and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.pasadena-chamber.org/blog/plaque-commemorating-invention-cheeseburger-pasadena-dedicated-la-financial-credit-union | title=Plaque commemorating invention of the cheeseburger in Pasadena dedicated at LA Financial Credit Union | website=Pasadena Chamber of Commerce }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-jan-16-la-me-burger-claim-20120116-story.html |title=Pasadena claims its slice of burger history |last=Piasecki |first=Joe |date=January 16, 2012 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=October 15, 2017 |issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Harvey |title=Only in L.A. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=B2 |date=March 27, 1991 |quote=Cooking at his father's short-order joint in Pasadena in the early 1920s, [Sternberger] experimentally tossed a slice (variety unknown) on a hamburger... |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-27-me-812-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Perry |title=It's an L.A. Thing; Our burgers are the best with good reason: We made them here first |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=F1 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/09/food/fo-hamburger9/2 |date=June 9, 2004 |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025200223/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/09/food/fo-hamburger9/2 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 13, 2012 |title=Yes, it was invented in Pasadena! Probably. Tracing the cheeseburger from inception to Bob's Big Boy |newspaper=[[Pasadena Sun]] |url=http://articles.pasadenasun.com/2012-01-13/entertainment/30625308_1_bob-s-big-boy-pasadena-museum-menu |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Joe |last=Piasecki |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129180714/http://articles.pasadenasun.com/2012-01-13/entertainment/30625308_1_bob-s-big-boy-pasadena-museum-menu |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 23, 1999 |title=The Tale of the Cheeseburger |newspaper=[[San Gabriel Valley Tribune]] |url=http://www.culturefreak.com/tale.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030412174753/http://www.culturefreak.com/tale.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 12, 2003 |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Evan |last=Henerson}}</ref>
An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant O'Dell's, which listed a cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 15, 2004 |title=Old Menus Tell the History of Hamburgers in L.A. |newspaper=[[Metropolitan News-Enterprise]] |url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing011504.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Roger M. |last=Grace}}</ref><ref name=kcet-2013sep18>{{cite news |url=http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the-nosh/were-cheeseburgers-invented-in-pasadena.html |title=Were Cheeseburgers Invented in Pasadena? |website=[[KCET]] |date=September 18, 2013 |first=Katherine |last=Spiers |access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name="lapl">{{cite web |url=http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org&GI=&TN=menus&SN=AUTO5261&SE=724&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&XP=&RF=web+tab+report+maya&EF=&DF=Pin&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&DT=&ST=0&IR=264&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS= |title=O'Dell's menu |date=1928 |work=Menu Collection |publisher=[[Los Angeles Public Library]] |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028222955/http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org&GI=&TN=menus&SN=AUTO5261&SE=724&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&XP=&RF=web+tab+report+maya&EF=&DF=Pin&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&DT=&ST=0&IR=264&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS= |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant O'Dell's, which listed a cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents,<ref>{{cite news |date=January 15, 2004 |title=Old Menus Tell the History of Hamburgers in L.A. |newspaper=[[Metropolitan News-Enterprise]] |url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing011504.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |first=Roger M. |last=Grace}}</ref><ref name=kcet-2013sep18>{{cite news |url=http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the-nosh/were-cheeseburgers-invented-in-pasadena.html |title=Were Cheeseburgers Invented in Pasadena? |website=[[KCET]] |date=September 18, 2013 |first=Katherine |last=Spiers |access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name="lapl">{{cite web |url=http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org&GI=&TN=menus&SN=AUTO5261&SE=724&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&XP=&RF=web+tab+report+maya&EF=&DF=Pin&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&DT=&ST=0&IR=264&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS= |title=O'Dell's menu |date=1928 |work=Menu Collection |publisher=[[Los Angeles Public Library]] |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028222955/http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdbase1.lapl.org&GI=&TN=menus&SN=AUTO5261&SE=724&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&XP=&RF=web+tab+report+maya&EF=&DF=Pin&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&DT=&ST=0&IR=264&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS= |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> or about 4.7 dollars in 2025 after inflation.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}}


Other restaurants also claim to have invented the cheeseburger. For example,  Kaelin's Restaurant in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], said it invented the cheeseburger in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Visitors/Louisville+Facts+and+Firsts.htm |title=Louisville Facts & Firsts - LouisvilleKy.gov|access-date=July 29, 2006 |publisher=City of Louisville, Kentucky |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110825/http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Visitors/Louisville%2BFacts%2Band%2BFirsts.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> One year later, a [[trademark]] for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cheese-burger.net/history |title=History of the Cheeseburger |access-date=October 2, 2008 |website=Cheese-Burger.net (blog) |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802034111/http://www.cheese-burger.net/history |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to [[Steak N Shake|Steak 'n Shake]] archives, the restaurant's founder, Gus Belt, applied for a trademark on the word in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/facts/flick-fact-monday/article_0c2bccea-58c6-11e1-abe1-001871e3ce6c.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911232907/http://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/facts/flick-fact-monday/article_0c2bccea-58c6-11e1-abe1-001871e3ce6c.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |title=Flick Fact 2/20/2012 Monday |access-date=February 21, 2012 |first=Bill |last=Flick |newspaper=[[Bloomington Pantagraph]] |date=February 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wjbc.com/our-top-5-list-of-little-known-facts-about-bloomington-normal/ |title=Our 'Top 5 List' of little-known facts about Bloomington-Normal |access-date=February 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202194437/http://wjbc.com/our-top-5-list-of-little-known-facts-about-bloomington-normal/ |archive-date=December 2, 2011 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 29, 2011 |work=[[WJBC-FM]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecf.moed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/STEAK_N_SHAKE_ET_AL_V_BURGER_KING_ET_AL-CDP-57.PDF |title=Steak 'n Shake vs Burger King, Memorandum and Order |access-date=February 21, 2012 |publisher=United States District Court Eastern District Missouri Eastern Division |date=July 7, 2004 |last=Perry |first=Catherine D. |author-link=Catherine D. Perry |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928003530/https://ecf.moed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/STEAK_N_SHAKE_ET_AL_V_BURGER_KING_ET_AL-CDP-57.PDF |archive-date=September 28, 2013}} [https://casetext.com/case/steak-n-shake-company-v-burger-king-corporation (7 July 2004) 323 F. Supp.2d 983 (E.D. Mo. 2004)]</ref>
Other restaurants also claim to have invented the cheeseburger. For example,  Kaelin's Restaurant in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], said it invented the cheeseburger in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Visitors/Louisville+Facts+and+Firsts.htm |title=Louisville Facts & Firsts - LouisvilleKy.gov|access-date=July 29, 2006 |publisher=City of Louisville, Kentucky |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110825/http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Visitors/Louisville%2BFacts%2Band%2BFirsts.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> One year later, a [[trademark]] for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cheese-burger.net/history |title=History of the Cheeseburger |access-date=October 2, 2008 |website=Cheese-Burger.net (blog) |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802034111/http://www.cheese-burger.net/history |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to [[Steak N Shake|Steak 'n Shake]] archives, the restaurant's founder, Gus Belt, applied for a trademark on the word in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/facts/flick-fact-monday/article_0c2bccea-58c6-11e1-abe1-001871e3ce6c.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911232907/http://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/facts/flick-fact-monday/article_0c2bccea-58c6-11e1-abe1-001871e3ce6c.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |title=Flick Fact 2/20/2012 Monday |access-date=February 21, 2012 |first=Bill |last=Flick |newspaper=[[Bloomington Pantagraph]] |date=February 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wjbc.com/our-top-5-list-of-little-known-facts-about-bloomington-normal/ |title=Our 'Top 5 List' of little-known facts about Bloomington-Normal |access-date=February 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202194437/http://wjbc.com/our-top-5-list-of-little-known-facts-about-bloomington-normal/ |archive-date=December 2, 2011 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 29, 2011 |work=[[WJBC-FM]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecf.moed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/STEAK_N_SHAKE_ET_AL_V_BURGER_KING_ET_AL-CDP-57.PDF |title=Steak 'n Shake vs Burger King, Memorandum and Order |access-date=February 21, 2012 |publisher=United States District Court Eastern District Missouri Eastern Division |date=July 7, 2004 |last=Perry |first=Catherine D. |author-link=Catherine D. Perry |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928003530/https://ecf.moed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/STEAK_N_SHAKE_ET_AL_V_BURGER_KING_ET_AL-CDP-57.PDF |archive-date=September 28, 2013}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20141015155606/https://casetext.com/case/steak-n-shake-company-v-burger-king-corporation (7 July 2004) 323 F. Supp.2d 983 (E.D. Mo. 2004)]</ref>


Dale Mulder, the owner of an [[A&W Restaurants]] franchise in [[Lansing, Michigan]], has been credited with inventing the bacon cheeseburger in 1963, putting it on the menu after repeated requests from the same customer.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jason|first1=Jason|title=14 Things You Didn't Know About A&W Restaurants|url=https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/the-history-of-aw-restaurants-aw-root-beer|access-date=September 9, 2016|work=Thrillist|date=June 22, 2015}}</ref> This was highlighted in a 2014 ad campaign for the chain featuring Mulder, who had since become the president of the A&W chain.<ref>[https://adage.com/creativity/work/aw-presents-history-bacon-cheeseburger/36156 "You'll Never Guess Who Invented the Bacon Cheeseburger"], ''[[Ad Age]]'', June 23, 2014, Web.</ref> However, there are earlier examples of a restaurant selling bacon cheeseburgers, including a menu for a [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]] restaurant from 1941.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-news/159195560/ "NEW—DIFFERENT; Announcing Opening of Hitchin' Post Restaurant"], ''[[Harrisburg Evening News]]'', January 3, 1941, page eight. Retrieved November 16, 2024 via [[Newspapers.com]].</ref>
Dale Mulder, the owner of an [[A&W Restaurants]] franchise in [[Lansing, Michigan]], has been credited with inventing the bacon cheeseburger in 1963, putting it on the menu after repeated requests from the same customer.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jason|first1=Jason|title=14 Things You Didn't Know About A&W Restaurants|url=https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/the-history-of-aw-restaurants-aw-root-beer|access-date=September 9, 2016|work=Thrillist|date=June 22, 2015}}</ref> This was highlighted in a 2014 ad campaign for the chain featuring Mulder, who had since become the president of the A&W chain.<ref>[https://adage.com/creativity/work/aw-presents-history-bacon-cheeseburger/36156 "You'll Never Guess Who Invented the Bacon Cheeseburger"], ''[[Ad Age]]'', June 23, 2014, Web.</ref> However, there are earlier examples of a restaurant selling bacon cheeseburgers, including a menu for a [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]] restaurant from 1941.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-news/159195560/ "NEW—DIFFERENT; Announcing Opening of Hitchin' Post Restaurant"], ''[[Harrisburg Evening News]]'', January 3, 1941, page eight. Retrieved November 16, 2024 via [[Newspapers.com]].</ref>
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Sometimes cheeseburgers are prepared with the cheese enclosed within the ground beef, rather than on top. This is sometimes known as a [[Jucy Lucy]].<ref name=mndaily>{{cite news |last1=Flower |first1=Justin |last2=Boller |first2=Jay |title=Burger Battle |url=http://www.mndaily.com/2008/03/13/burger-battle |work=[[Minnesota Daily]] |date=13 March 2008 |access-date=October 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710175218/http://www.mndaily.com/2008/03/13/burger-battle |archive-date=July 10, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Sometimes cheeseburgers are prepared with the cheese enclosed within the ground beef, rather than on top. This is sometimes known as a [[Jucy Lucy]].<ref name=mndaily>{{cite news |last1=Flower |first1=Justin |last2=Boller |first2=Jay |title=Burger Battle |url=http://www.mndaily.com/2008/03/13/burger-battle |work=[[Minnesota Daily]] |date=13 March 2008 |access-date=October 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710175218/http://www.mndaily.com/2008/03/13/burger-battle |archive-date=July 10, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Other toppings and condiments may include lettuce, tomato, [[onion]], [[pickled cucumber|pickles]], [[bacon]], [[avocado]], [[mushrooms]], [[mayonnaise]], ketchup, and [[mustard (condiment)|mustard]].


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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Pp-move-indef Template:Pp-semi-indef Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox food A cheeseburger is a hamburger with one or more slices of melted cheese on top of the meat patty, added near the end of the cooking time. Cheeseburgers can include variations in structure, ingredients and composition. As with other hamburgers, a cheeseburger may include various condiments and other toppings such as lettuce, tomato and ketchup.

In fast food restaurants across the United States, processed cheese is usually used, although other meltable cheeses are used, such as cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella, blue cheese, or pepper jack. Virtually all restaurants that sell hamburgers also offer cheeseburgers.

Origins

By the late 19th century, the vast grasslands of the Great Plains had been opened up for cattle ranching. This made it possible for many Americans to consume beef almost daily. The hamburger remains as one of the cheapest forms of beef in America.[1]

Adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in the 1920s. There are several competing claims as to who created the first cheeseburger. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger in 1924 at the age of 16. He was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California, sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot", and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger."[2][3][4][5][6][7] An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant O'Dell's, which listed a cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents,[8][9][10] or about 4.7 dollars in 2025 after inflation.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Other restaurants also claim to have invented the cheeseburger. For example, Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, said it invented the cheeseburger in 1934.[11] One year later, a trademark for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado.[12] According to Steak 'n Shake archives, the restaurant's founder, Gus Belt, applied for a trademark on the word in the 1930s.[13][14][15]

Dale Mulder, the owner of an A&W Restaurants franchise in Lansing, Michigan, has been credited with inventing the bacon cheeseburger in 1963, putting it on the menu after repeated requests from the same customer.[16] This was highlighted in a 2014 ad campaign for the chain featuring Mulder, who had since become the president of the A&W chain.[17] However, there are earlier examples of a restaurant selling bacon cheeseburgers, including a menu for a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania restaurant from 1941.[18]

The steamed cheeseburger, a variation almost exclusively served in central Connecticut, is believed to have been invented at a restaurant called Jack's Lunch in Middletown, Connecticut, in the 1930s.[19]

The largest cheeseburger ever made weighed Template:Convert. It is said to have included "Template:Convert of bacon, Template:Convert of lettuce, Template:Convert of sliced onions, Template:Convert of pickles, and Template:Convert of cheese." This record was set in 2012 by Minnesota's Black Bear Casino, smashing the previous record of Template:Convert.[20]

In the United States, National Cheeseburger Day is celebrated annually on September 18.[21]

Ingredients

File:At Dot's Diner - Alpine Burger.jpg
Some cheeseburger ingredients

The ingredients used to create cheeseburgers follow similar patterns found in the regional variations of hamburgers, although most start with ground beef. Common cheeses used for topping are American, Swiss, Cheddar and other meltable cheeses. Popular toppings include lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, avocado or guacamole, sliced sautéed mushrooms, cheese sauce or chili, but the variety of possible toppings is broad.

A cheeseburger may have more than one patty or more than one slice of cheese—it is reasonably common, but by no means automatic, for the number to increase at the same rate with cheese and meat interleaved. A stack of two or more patties follows the same basic pattern as hamburgers: with two patties will be called a double cheeseburger; a triple cheeseburger has three, and while much less common, a quadruple has four.[22][23]

Sometimes cheeseburgers are prepared with the cheese enclosed within the ground beef, rather than on top. This is sometimes known as a Jucy Lucy.[24]

Other toppings and condiments may include lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, avocado, mushrooms, mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard.

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