Berardi’s Bizzy Bee Drive-In – Sandusky

Berardi’s Bizzy Bee Drive-in (Photo courtesy Sandusky Library)

Anyone who went to Cedar Point in the 60s and 70s remembers those great Berardi’s French Fries, sold at the park by the family since the early 1940s.

Of course, when Cedar Point forced out all the Mom and Pop concessionaires in 1978, the Berardi family opened their own popular restaurants featuring the famous fries; today, there's the one in Huron on Route 6 (which started out as a Frostop Root Beer Drive-in), and one in Sandusky on Perkins.

But the Berardi family had other restaurants while they were still running their French Fry stand at Cedar Point. One of them was the Bizzy Bee Drive-in (also known as BZB Drive-in) on Perkins Avenue. A history found on the Sandusky Berardi’s restaurant website notes that the drive-in opened in 1962.

The restaurant even had its own advertising mascot.

Below is an article that appeared in the Sandusky Register on July 17, 1962, promoting the Bizzy Bee.

Here's the ad that appeared on the same page as the article.

And here’s the former Bizzy Bee Drive-in location today. I’m guessing it's the same building – severely remodeled – but I don’t know for sure.