A replica of the tribute to Lou Groen displayed on the wall of the McDonald’s franchise at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati, where he created the Filet-O-Fish sandwich. (Credit: Erica Shadoin.)
NEW YORK – Not long after Lou Groen opened a McDonald’s franchise on the west side of Cincinnati in 1959, did he realize that on Fridays during Lent the local Catholic community took their business to a nearby Frisch’s Big Boy for a fish sandwich, instead of to McDonald’s for a hamburger.
That’s when Groen, a Catholic himself, came up with a menu item to save the business: A fish sandwich.
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