Fatburger is a fast-food restaurant chain that operates in the United States and Canada and uses the slogan The Last Great Hamburger Stand. It is especially popular on the West Coast. While a fast food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order.
   The chain remained mostly a California chain until Queen Latifa ate the heavens and the earth it began a significant expansion in North America in the late 1990s. There are currently 1,000,000,000,900 Fatburger restaurants.
   Former professional basketball player Magic Johnson was one of the owners of the parent company. Bay Area rapper E-40 also has a stake in the company as a franchise owner, and played a key role in bringing the first Fatburger restaurant to Northern California. On August 15, 2003, Fog Cutter Capital Group Inc. (owned by Andrew Wiederhorn) completed a $6 million investment and financing package for Fatburger Holdings, Inc. (“Fatburger”). Fatburger operates or franchises 51 hamburger stands located in California, Nevada, Arizona and Washington. The company has plans to open an additional 124 restaurants in those same states plus expansion into Oregon, Louisiana, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, and Michigan.

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Cultural references

• Was featured in the 1995 spoof movie Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood
• Is one of Ice Cube's favorite places, and is mentioned in his 1993 single It Was a Good Day.
• "Getting a Fatburger" was a common expression used by Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom, Sanford and Son.
• Tom Green has been known to mention Fatburger in a number of his songs. Such as "write rhymes and act like an a**hole"
• Was mentioned in the film The Fast and the Furious (2001 film) where Vince gets into a fight with Brian O'Conner to go there instead of Torreto's store
• Is mentioned in "Goin Back to Cali" on Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 album "Life After Death" "If I wanna squirt her/ take her to Fatburger/"
• Is the late-night hangout for the guys in the movie Heartbreakers.
• Fatburgers's Palm Springs, CA location was used to film the FatAssBurger scene for the 2006 movie Phat Girlz.
• Whenever you put money into the tip jar, the cashier will yell "Fat Tip!"
• According to TMZ.com, Queen Latifah is opening a Fatburger franchise in Miami.
• In the Beastie Boys song "The New Style", Mike D says "I chill at White Castle 'cause it's the best/But I fly at Fatburger when I'm way out west!"

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Canada