6) Lum’s
Founded by the Perlman brothers in 1956 this chain quickly expanded beyond its first location in Florida. Known as the place to get a beer-steamed hot dog, the company even made enough to purchase Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
While the last location in Nebraska closed down in 2017, the chain had already all but vanished from map by the 1980s as the company had filed for bankruptcy in 1982 after being sold several times.
