AND ONE MORE THING: The Fatburger fast-food...

AND ONE MORE THING: The Fatburger fast-food chain claims that its first restaurant in Los Angeles was the place where Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra went to get burgers after recording sessions back in the ‘50s. Now, with 20 stores and plans to expand, the chain is trying to re-tap into that legacy.

Fatburger has set up a deal with Rhino Records to keep the old tunes coming from jukeboxes in each restaurant. Starting with the just-opened outlet on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Rhino will stock the boxes with CD albums from its vast catalogue of reissues and oldies compilations, focusing on R&B; and blues, and will line the walls with classic photos of many of the artists, provided by the Michael Ochs Archives.

“The soulful sounds of Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Tina Turner, Fats Domino . . . and the ‘90s attention to quality ingredients is what we’re all about,” says Fatburger vice president Bentley Hetrick in a press release, stretching the comparison as he stretches across decades.

One thing that’s completely ‘90s: the price for the music. It’s one song for a quarter, which probably would have gotten you five plays in the ‘50s.*