Krusty Krab

The **Krusty Krab** is a fast food restaurant located in Bikini Bottom, founded and owned by Eugene H. Krabs. It is also the most popular restaurant in Bikini Bottom and one of the main locations of *SpongeBob SquarePants*. It first appears in the pilot episode "Help Wanted."

Famous for its Krabby Patty burgers, it is a rival to Plankton's highly unpopular across-the-street restaurant called the Chum Bucket. Its employees are SpongeBob SquarePants and Squidward Tentacles, respectively the fry cook and cashier.

## History

Mr. Krabs loves money, and is openly concerned about his profits above all else. Because of this, he pays his employees very cheaply (though SpongeBob doesn't care much) and serves his food for high prices.

The reason the restaurant is so popular is because of the Krabby Patty, a burger with a very top secret recipe, which has almost always been the signature Krusty Krab dish. Other Krusty Krab grub includes typical fast food products such as french fries and sodas, as well as underwater foods such as coral bits and kelp rings. All of these items make up the Galley Grub, the food menu of the Krusty Krab.

Besides Mr. Krabs, the restaurant has two employees: SpongeBob as the fry cook and Squidward as the cashier.

SpongeBob loves his job and excels at it, while Squidward loathes his job and does his job poorly. Squidward is annoyed by SpongeBob, though SpongeBob considers him to be one of his best friends.

The Krusty Krab's main business competitor is the Chum Bucket, owned by Plankton, who is Mr. Krabs' worst enemy (and former best friend).

While the Chum Bucket (the restaurant's only competitor) usually fails to attract customers due to its repulsive food products, there have been short instances where the Chum Bucket was doing successfully. These infrequent short periods of time are the only times when the Krusty Krab has any competition.

Stephen Hillenburg's original name for the Krusty Krab was the "Crusty Crab," but he decided the intentional misspellings of the "C"s for "K"s was funnier.

The restaurant itself may have once been an old New England lobster trap since it greatly resembles one. The original owners may have found the trap lying at the bottom of the ocean, and fixed it up and turned it into a building. Another theory is that the restaurant could have been purposely designed to resemble a lobster trap so it could look more nautical than a regular building.

In one version of the origin, the Krusty Krab was born when Mr. Krabs, who had been secluded in a deep depression after serving in the military that seemed endless, acquired a bankrupt retirement home called the "Rusty Krab."

However, in another version of the origin, Mr. Krabs was once a seafaring pirate and the Krusty Krab was originally his ship.

However, it is said that after retiring from piracy, Mr. Krabs sold his ship. He could have purchased the retirement home after this, and it could have been a coincidence that it was called the Rusty Krab and had the same shell design as Mr. Krabs' ship.

In "Friend or Foe," which revealed the origin of Mr. Krabs and Plankton's rivalry, it is shown that Mr. Krabs first went into the fast food business in his childhood. The Krabby Patty secret formula was created when a shelf was broken during Krabs and Plankton's struggles, making various ingredients slide into the patty batter. However, other episodes, most notably "Enemy In-Law," state that the Krabby Patty and its formula is a family recipe, such as in "Dunces and Dragons," which shows that the Krabby Patty was first served in medieval times by King Krabs, an ancestor of Mr. Krabs, who was introduced to it as a result of SpongeBob and Patrick's time traveling. As for salaries, Squidward and SpongeBob, the only two employees besides their boss Mr. Krabs, have varying salaries depending on the episode that are mostly for the joke. In some instances, they are paid an actual (if not minimal) paycheck, while some other instances show that they actually are to pay Mr. Krabs (this is most notable in the episode "Squid on Strike," where Squidward is forced to pay for his services). Another episode shows they are paid only one nickel (5 cents) a day, according to an episode in which Squidward mentions this fact and SpongeBob cannot stop laughing. "One Coarse Meal" shows that Mr. Krabs pays SpongeBob with Wacky bucks, a fake currency which obviously has no value, only just for a gag. In yet another episode, SpongeBob states that he had to pay Mr. Krabs $100 an hour when he first started working.

### Customers

* Patrick Star (mentioned in a few episodes)
* Incidental 41
* Incidental 40
* Incidental 42
* Incidental 7
* Incidental 45
* Scooter
* Incidental 49
* Three-Headed Jake
* Incidental 103
* Incidental 64
* Martha
* Incidental 36
* Duke Yukthomas Féyêdêmuffin
* Incidental 14
* Anchovies
* Incidental 82
* Incidental 108
* Sandals
* Fred
* Incidental 6