Our story.
A food cart.
One recipe.
Since 1954.
Dic Ann's is the story of a thin patty burger served from a cart on a Montreal street corner. More than seventy years later, the recipe hasn't changed. The world around it has.
Dominic. Ann.
A street corner.
A grill.
In 1954, Dominic "Dic" Potenza and Ann Collecchia set up a food cart at the corner of Cremazie and Papineau in Montreal. The concept was simple: a thin patty pressed by hand, cooked on a flat-top, a toasted bun, and a sauce nobody has ever been able to copy.
Our grandparents started with a simple idea, a dozen hamburgers and hot dogs, and $5 in their pockets. No grand plan. No logo. Just the beginning of something.
70 years of history.
The cart at Cremazie and Papineau
Dominic "Dic" Potenza and Ann Collecchia open their first food cart in Montreal. Quebec's original thin patty burger is born.
Pie-IX: the first permanent location
Two years after the cart, Dic Ann's opens its first year-round restaurant on Boulevard Pie-IX. It's still open today.
Chomedey opens
Expansion toward Laval. Dic Ann's crosses off Montreal Island for the first time.
1,306 cheeseburgers in one hour
World record. All dressed by one person, with a whole team in the kitchen, each at their station. All with condiments. Nobody has ever beaten it.
World RecordAnjou joins the network
Dic Ann's continues growing across Greater Montreal.
1,542 hamburgers in one hour
At the Saint-Jerome location. A new world record we still hold today.
World Record800 hamburgers in 24 minutes
The largest takeout order ever completed. Pie-IX. Three seconds shy of another record.
World Record16 locations across Quebec
From Pie-IX to Mirabel, from Chomedey to Sainte-Julienne. Three generations of families. One recipe.
Three world
records.
We don't do marketing. We make burgers. Fast. Well. And we have the records to prove it.
Cheeseburgers in one hour
All dressed by one person, with a whole team in the kitchen, each at their station. All with condiments. Nobody has ever beaten it.
1987Hamburgers in one hour
At our Saint-Jerome location. The world record we still hold today.
1998Hamburgers in 24 minutes
The largest takeout order ever completed. Pie-IX.
2006Pressed by hand,
until we couldn't keep up.
In the early days every patty was pressed by hand, one at a time. They were stacked, kept cold, and cooked fresh on the flat-top as the orders came in. That is how the Dic Ann's burger became what it is: thin, pressed, cooked to order.
Then the lineups got long. Very long. At a certain point, hand-pressing thousands of patties a day stopped being possible. We bought a patty machine.
That is the only thing that changed. The patties are still made fresh, still cooked to order on the flat-top. A machine replaced the hands, but not the recipe, not the sauce. We would rather tell you straight than sell you a story.
The same sauce.
Since the
very first day.
We won't tell you what's in it. We'll just say it's been around since 1954, and it's the reason you come back.
The famous sauce is sold at Metro and Super C, and at every one of our locations. Our spicy mayo is at Metro (original and chipotle) and IGA (original).
What we stand for.
The original recipe
We've been making the same burger since 1954. Thin patty, toasted bun, Dic Ann's famous sauce. No seasonal variations. No fusion menu. Just the burger.
The neighbourhood first
Every Dic Ann's belongs to its neighbourhood. We hire local, serve local, support local. That's been true since the food cart.
No fuss
No table service. No 30-item menu. No marketing that talks louder than the food. We make food. That's it.