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Howard Johnson's was the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with more than 1,000 combined company-owned and franchised outlets. [2] Today, the chain is defunct—after dwindling down to one location, the last Howard Johnson's restaurant (in Lake George, New York) closed in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
Acquisitions and mergers also occurred. In the early 1970s, Frisch's acquired Kip's Big Boy; JB's acquired Vip's, Kebo's, Leo's and Bud's which were rebranded JB's. Shoney's acquired the Missouri territory previously assigned to Tote's. After buying Big Boy, Elias Brothers bought Elby's and TJ's. Elby's was unique in leaving and rejoining the ...
KFC is a leader in the fast food world for their fried chicken. So here's a look at the man behind the bucket -- Colonel Sanders. The real Colonel -- Harland David Sanders -- was born on a farm on ...
The Red Barn restaurant was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1961 in Springfield, Ohio, by Don Six, Martin Levine, and Jim Kirst.In 1963, the small chain was purchased by Richard O. Kearns, operated as Red Barn System, with the offices moving briefly to Dayton, Ohio and in August 1964 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Grabowski was born in Essex County, New Jersey (either Irvington or Maplewood, sources vary), the youngest of three siblings born to Polish immigrant parents. In 1952, after leaving the US Army on a medical discharge, [4] He built a hot rod based on a shortened 1922 Ford Model T touring car mated to a similarly extremely shortened Model A pickup truck bed.
Travis Kelce ditched the Thanksgiving turkey for several buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken. While the tight end, 34, celebrated in Kansas City without family or his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, he ...
The air freshener is only available in Bucket of Chicken. Chicken is to be expected, and feels like an insane aroma for a candle, but the biscuits scent is actually a pretty good idea.
The first KFC logo was introduced in 1952 and featured a "Kentucky Fried Chicken" typeface and a logo of the Colonel. [40] It was designed by the Lippincott & Margulies corporate identity agency. [40] Lippincott & Margulies were hired to redesign it in 1978, and used a similar typeface and a slightly different Sanders logo. [40]