Harvey’s

The Harvey’s fast food chain is named for an unsuccessful Toronto auto dealer. In 1959 restaurateur Rick Mauran wanted a simple name for is new operation. He considered “Humphrey’s,” but then ran across the name “Harvey’s” in an advertisement for John Harvey’s auto dealership. Mauran liked the name, espacially when he discovered that the dealership  was willing to sell his “Harvey’s” sign for cheap. Mauran bought it and put that sign outside his first restaurant on Yonge Street in Toronto.