It all started with a man and his truck. The man was Nat Bailey, his truck was a 1918 Model T, which he transformed into a traveling lunch counter to serve hungry sightseers at Vancouver’s Lookout Point.

One day, a customer leaned out his car window and asked, “Why don’t you bring it to us?” So Nat did. He hired three energetic young men to take orders from his customers. Because these servers “hopped to it” they became known as carhops.

Nat’s energy and his passion for service set the stage for the first White Spot drive-in, which he opened in 1928 on Granville Street at 67th Avenue in Vancouver.