Kincaid’s, the much-loved Fort Worth burger-joint-in-a-grocery, faced with a 300% rent increase, was prepared to close down Thursday until a new location could be found.  A last-minute settlement will keep Kincaid’s right where it’s been for the last 62 years.  Read more in this CBS11TV article.

There’s also some interesting info in this column by Bud Kennedy in The Star-Telegram of Fort Worth.  Seems the grocery was owned by Charles Kincaid, but the burger business was started by the grocery’s meat man, O.R. Gentry, in the 60’s.  Mr. Gentry never purchased the grocery itself.  Both businesses ended up in the hands of descendents, and it’s the current owner of Kincaid’s (the building) that was hitting the current owner of the burger shop at Kincaid’s with the rent increase.  The new lease agreement will keep Kincaid’s here for at least ten more years.

Michael Stern, in his Roadfood.com review of Kincaid’s, describes the burger as follows: “Here is one of America's great hamburger-eating experiences. It is a half a pound of beef, charred and well-seasoned, lean yet drippingly juicy, sandwiched between thick halves of a big warm bun that oozes a surfeit of condiments, onions, tomato slices, and shreds of lettuce.”