Wimpy (United States)

Wimpy's Restaurants, LLC is an American fast food chain. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The chain started out as a table-service restaurant before transitioning to a fast food format in the late-1970s.

The chain was founded in Bloomington, Indiana, by Edward Gold in 1934 as Wimpy Grills, and the US operation was bought out in 1977 by its three largest franchisees following Gold's death. Currently, the US operation has no corporate relations with the run by -based  outside of a perpetual license granted to Famous to use some trademarks and menu items.