Foster's Hollywood is a chain of American food restaurants located in Spain and Portugal, whose establishments are characterized as so-called “casual restaurants”, but understood in a foreign culture to be a type of ethnic restaurant, such as Italian or Asian.[1]
History
The enterprise was founded in 1971 by four young Californians residing in Spain (Mark Brownstein, Douglas Delfeld and the brothers Anthony B. and Stephen A. Unger) all of whom were directly connected to filmmaking and missed authentic American food. In September 1972 the premier restaurant of the chain opened at 1 Magallanes Street in the middle of Madrid.[2] and evolved into the first American-style restaurant chain in Spain and one of the first in Europe.[3] A reporter for The New York Times wrote in his review of the establishment that you could probably eat there “the best fried battered onion rings in the world.”[3][2]