Junior's
The Beginning
1950s
Junior's opens at Main and Broadway. The Fat Boy is born. Angus beef, house chili, all the fixings.
Since the fifties
The sauce started here.
The name came later.
In the mid-1950s a Greek immigrant named Gus Scouras opened a burger counter at Main and Broadway and called it Junior's. He figured he was the junior of the two brothers. He put a ladle of chili meat sauce on a hamburger and put it on the board as the Lotta Burger.
Winnipeg has never really eaten a burger any other way since. Cooks who came up in the Scouras kitchens opened their own rooms across the city and took the sauce with them, and somewhere along the way somebody else's sign started calling it the Fat Boy. The name stuck. So did the sauce.
“If you grew up in Winnipeg, you grew up on Fat Boys.”
Generations of loyal customers
The Expansion
1970s
The sauce spreads across Winnipeg. Second generation takes the grill.
The Legacy
2000s
Third generation carries the torch. Same chili recipe, same commitment to quality.
McPhillips
Today
The McPhillips location brings the Fat Boy to the north end. Same taste, new neighbourhood.