Manufacturer: Walker China
User: Lujan's Burger Boy
Date of plate: September 1966
Date of saucer: September 1961

Ron Lujan in 2022

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Notes: Rolin (Ron) D. Lujan opened his first Lujan's Burger Boy drive-in restaurant in 1956, on Tallmadge Circle in Akron, Ohio. He hired waitresses, whom he called "curbettes," to take orders from carloads of hungry customers in the 60 parking spaces around the restaurant. The drive-in was an immediate success and eventually led to him opening 11 Lujan restaurants in Ohio.

In 1961, he began to offer indoor dining, rebranded as Lujan's Family Restaurants – "Home of the Burger Boy." By the 1970,'s he operated restaurants in Akron, Canton, Cuyahoga Falls, Fairlawn, Kent, Massillon, Tallmadge and Wooster.

In 1979, he opened Shea-Nanigans, a 210-seat restaurant with business partner Bill Shea in the former Burger Boy in Kent, Ohio.

Lujan eventually sold his restaurants, and the ones in Tallmadge and Fairlawn became Big Boys. The 24-hour Lujan's restaurant on State Road, famous for its breakfast bar, was the last one left before it closed in the late 1980s.

Lujan died in July 2022, at the age of 96.

White body plate with a black airbrushed band on the slightly scalloped rim. In the well of the plate at the 10 o'clock position is the restaurant's logo in red. The logo consists of the word "Lujan's" in a stylized script intersecting the top of a circle around a running cartoon boy carrying a hamburger. The cap on the boy's head has the words "Burger Boy" on its side.

Source:
The Akron Beacon Journal, July 23, 2022 – story about Ron Lujan and his restaurants

Contributors:
Marge Barner, ID and saucer photos
Ed Babcock, plate and ad photos
Ed Phillips: author