In the early 2000s I was at a convention in Portland OR and there met Dick and his wife. This was the Dick who founded the eponymous burger bars before McDonald founded his:
http://www.ddir.com/about/
When he heard we were travelling on to Seatlle he invited us to stay with him overnight and gave us a voucher good for 2 meals at one of his places.
Since Dick didn't modernise his places they're now very fashionably retro and a Seattle institution.