Hungry Hobo is a sandwich-style restaurant chain with thirteen locations in the Quad Cities Area of Illinois and Iowa. Pryce T. Boeye and Kriston Beardsley are the current owners.The company was founded in 1973 when Ray Pearson, Tom Spero, and Jim and Joe Gende converted three Little King franchises to the original Hungry Hobo locations. The three Little King locations were in Moline, Davenport, and Rock Island.