So does mine.
Big Boy restaurants were selling a virtually identical sandwich from the 1930’s. Sorry, but there’s a difference between copying somebody else’s idea and inventing something.
When I was working (briefly) for a meat packing plant in the Bristol Indiana test kitchen where Ponderosa products were made, I was in said test kitchen when my boss walked in a group of other food creator guys.
One of them spoke. “I was there when the cheese stick was invented”
I found it quite uninspirational. I’d taken a break from college, to pursue a career in music.