The founder of Mr. Burger, a beloved Grand Rapids-area restaurant chain, has died.
Per his obituary, Peter Christopoulos passed away on Saturday, August 16. He was 90 years old.
The “embodiment of the American dream” emigrated to the United States from Greece in the 1950s with “less than nothing,” reads the obituary, and worked at his uncle’s restaurant in Grand Rapids to pay off the price of his passage…