Thursday, March 1, 2012

Gonzales Burgers - A Small South Texas Store With Whopper Sideline Lunch Products

By Carrie Bancroft


What is it? According to the neighborhood resources, Gonzales Burgers evolved from a tiny grocery shop started 60 years ago. Following numerous financial and neighborhood changes, its sideline burgers and fries became its important items. Even though this shop is built onto the side of the family house, it is fairly tiny. Its storefront has plate-glass windows and a covered concrete patio holding 4 picnic tables. It is owned and operated by three sisters, heirs to the original founders.

Inside, it looks like one particular room having two rows of lengthwise-aligned 10-to-12-seat white banquet tables with an aisle running down their middle toward the counter in the back. However its prep and storage rooms, and a single restroom are to its appropriate side along with shelving for the groceries on-hand. Its walls are decorated with stuffed animals, e.g., rattlesnake, turkey, antelope and deer heads, Muskie and other fish. It can hold 40 folks okay, plus a further 20 or a lot more outside.

On the back wall behind the counter, a frequent iron griddle with a single two-basket fryer to its left faces the back wall under a hood. To its proper, a lid-covered condiment bar is exactly where the fried burgers are dressed with lettuce, sliced tomato and onion, mustard, dill pickles, and grilled onions if requested. The completed burgers are wrapped in paper there, and then place on a tray with any side orders, like fries or rings.

Exactly where is it? (Hours Mon-Sat 10:45-am to 2:45-pm closed Sunday open most holidays) The store is located in the town of Donna amongst the towns of Alamo and Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. It sits in a semi-residential location, address: 1309 Silver Avenue. To get there, take Freeway-83 east or west to Salinas Road. Exit south there to Silver Avenue (four-blocks south of old Enterprise-83, which runs parallel to Freeway-83). Turn right (west), and go five-blocks. Gonzales Burgers faces the street on the south side. You will see the glut of street-parked vehicles and persons sitting on its front patio.

Menu (all contents/rates subject to modify anytime tax not included). Burgers (Includes lettuce, tomato, onion,




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