Question: The Krusty Krab is a fictional fast food restaurant in a tv series created by who?
Context: "Help Wanted" is the pilot episode of the American animated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants".  It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on May 1, 1999, following the television airing of the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards.  The episode follows the protagonist, an anthropomorphic sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, attempting to get a job at a local restaurant called the Krusty Krab.  However, he is tasked to find a seemingly non-existent high-caliber spatula because the owner, Mr. Krabs, considers him unqualified for the position.  Eventually, crowds of ravenous anchovies stop by the Krusty Krab and demand meals.  SpongeBob returns from his errand, having fulfilled the request of Mr. Krabs and found a mechanical spatula.  He utilizes the spatula to fulfill the anchovies' hunger.  SpongeBob is then welcomed by Mr. Krabs as a Krusty Krab employee. Nirula's is India's oldest fast food restaurant chain.  Based in North India and most popular in NCR Delhi, it was Delhi's first fast food restaurant, opening in Connaught Place in 1977.  Today it has over 70 outlets in NCR Delhi, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh states, offering a “Desi” version of Western fast food items.  Nirula's success has led them to branch out into other ventures which include, ‘Potpourri’, an Indian cuisine, casual dining restaurant chain; ‘Nirula's 21’, ice cream parlour chain, in addition to pastry shops and two hotels in Noida and Panipat.  Recently Nirula's opened its first franchise in Patna, their first outlet in the entire east zone. The Krusty Krab is a fictional fast food restaurant in the American animated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants".  It was founded by Mr. Krabs, who is also the owner.  The restaurant has two employees: SpongeBob SquarePants and Squidward Tentacles.  Famous for its Krabby Patty sandwiches, it is a rival of Plankton's across-the-street restaurant The Chum Bucket and as a result, the character frequently plots schemes to obtain the Krabby Patty formula.  The restaurant first appears in the pilot episode, "Help Wanted" and has since become a common setting in the series. SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula is a platform action video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by THQ for the Game Boy Color handheld video game console.  The game was released in the United States on March 14, 2001, and in Europe on May 4, 2001.  The game's story centers on SpongeBob SquarePants, a sea sponge who lives in the undersea town of Bikini Bottom and works for Mr. Krabs as the fry cook of the Krusty Krab fast food restaurant.  SpongeBob is destined to become the ocean's greatest fry cook, and must embark on a quest to retrieved a "golden spatula" from the Flying Dutchman, a pirate ghost.  The game features platforming-style gameplay, as well as many characters from the television series.  This is the only 8-bit SpongeBob game and the only SpongeBob video game on the Game Boy Color.  A sequel, was released in November 2001 for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. A fast food restaurant, also known as a quick service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a specific type of restaurant that serves fast food cuisine and has minimal table service.  The food served in fast food restaurants is typically part of a "meat-sweet diet", offered from a limited menu, cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order, and usually available for take away, though seating may be provided.  Fast food restaurants are typically part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation that provisions standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels.  The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951. When the predecessor of international fast food restaurant chain Burger King (BK) first opened in 1955, its menu predominantly consisted of hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts.  After being acquired by its Miami, Florida franchisees and renamed in 1954, BK began expanding its menu by adding the Whopper.  The company did not add another permanent hamburger to its menu until the introduction of the Big King sandwich in 1996 in response to McDonald's Big Mac sandwich.  The company began experimenting with premium hamburgers, made from higher quality ingredients, in 1978 with the introduction of its Specialty Sandwich product line.  The products were some of the first designed by a fast food restaurant chain that were intended to capture the adult market, members of which would be willing to spend more on a higher-quality product.  However, it wasn't until 2002 when the company began to work on a premium burger in earnest.  On the value side, Burger King first started offering sliders to its menu in the mid-1980s and offered them off and on for the next twenty years. Mr. Meaty is a Canadian-American teen sitcom television series created by Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley.  The show centers on two lazy teenage boys named Josh Redgrove and Parker Dinkleman, who work at a fictional fast food restaurant named Mr. Meaty located inside the Scaunchboro Mall, getting into all sorts of predicaments along the way. Restaurant Brands International is a Canadian multinational fast food company.  Formed in 2014 by the $12.5 billion merger between American fast food restaurant chain Burger King and the Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and expanded by the 2017 purchase of Louisiana-based and themed Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the company is the third-largest operator of fast food restaurants in the world.  The company is based alongside Tim Hortons in Oakville, Ontario, but both chains retain their existing operations and headquarters in Oakville and Miami respectively.  The merger focused primarily on expanding the international reach of the Tim Hortons brand, and providing financial efficiencies for both companies. Big Belly Burger is a fictional fast food restaurant chain in the DC Comics universe.  It has appeared in a number of comic book titles and stories, as well as on the television programs "Arrow" and "The Flash". SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.  The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom.  The series' popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as the highest rated series to ever air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of MTV Networks.  As of 2015, the media franchise has generated $12 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon.
Answer: Stephen Hillenburg