Humpty’s Restaurants
Medicine Hat

About Humpty’s Restaurants Medicine Hat

Humpty’s was founded in 1977 by Don and Jan Koenig – a couple with no restaurant experience – who in 1974 bought a small 50 seat establishment in Blackie, Alberta.

By 1976 their business grew into the Calgary market where they established a catering company alongside three soup and sandwich shops. Don and Jan had spent a year researching the breakfast market and found that there was an underserved opportunity in all day breakfast.

Based on this research, they converted one of their soup and sandwich shops into the first Humpty’s Egg Place in November 1977.

The restaurant’s original name came from the association between eggs, the all day breakfast concept and the storybook character Humpty Dumpty. Given that families were a key target for the new restaurant, the association between breakfast and the character was a...