One fateful afternoon in 1924, Lionel Sternberger contemplated the hamburger he was cooking up at Pasadena’s Rite Spot and thought it needed a little something extra. A simple slice of American ...

By 1931, Sternberger was prospering. The Rite Spot expanded to another brick-and-mortar eatery in Pasadena, and also opened locations in Glendale and Highland Park. With his newfound fortune ...

During the event, the city pays homage “to Lionel Sternberger’s genius in being the first to put cheese on a hamburger and ...

"The Rite Spot" was a roadside burger stand near Route 66 in Pasadena, California, and the place where the cheeseburger was first served to customers, according to the Pasadena Convention and ...

Meat, cheese, bun — and whatever else you want to throw into the mix — makes up the beloved cheeseburger, which was invented in Pasadena 100 ... called The Rite Spot, when he accidentally ...

Following a postponement caused by the recent fires, cheeseburgers specials are back in Pasadena as the city ... his father’s restaurant called The Rite Spot. One day he accidentally burned ...

Did you know the Cheeseburger was invented in Pasadena, California ... year-old boy working at his father’s restaurant, The Rite Spot. While the restaurant has since been replaced with a ...

Legend has it that 99 years ago Lionel Sternberger began putting cheese on hamburgers and serving them at his Rite Spot eatery in Pasadena. And regularly in recent years, the Pasadena Chamber of ...

Meat, cheese, bun — and whatever else you want to throw into the mix — makes up the beloved cheeseburger, which was invented in Pasadena 100 years ago ... at his father’s restaurant called The Rite ...