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On August 2nd, 1993, a Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurant opened at Grossmont Center, as a relocation of a Pizza Time Theatre that was located in El Cajon. The Chuck E. Cheese plans to close between 2024 and 2025, when their lease expires.
Bob's Big Boy is a casual dining restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry. [2] [3] The chain's signature product is the Big Boy hamburger, which Wian created six months after opening his original location.
Building an indoor mall was ideal for the area, as El Cajon is notoriously hot during the summer. Since opening the mall, Parkway Plaza has expanded as necessary. Sears Roebuck opened first, on the west edge of the property, around 1969-1970 as a freestanding anchor. The mall was built shortly thereafter, attaching to its east side.
In 2006, Catalina Restaurant Group was bought by Japanese company Zensho Co., Ltd., which has operated Coco's Japan for many years. [ 8 ] In 2015 San Antonio, Texas -based Food Management Partners acquired Carlsbad, California -based Catalina Restaurant Group Inc., parent of the Coco's and Carrows concepts, from Zensho Co., Ltd. [ 9 ] See also ...
The first Souplantation restaurant opened on Mission Gorge Road in San Diego in 1978. [10] It was the idea of Dennis Jay, who was a bartender at Springfield Wagon Works, a pioneer in salad bars in El Cajon. Dennis's friends, John Turnbull and Scott King, were opening their first Soup and Salad restaurant, The Soup Exchange.
El Cajon Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California. Before the creation of Interstate 8 it was the principal automobile route from San Diego to El Cajon, the Imperial Valley , and points east as U.S. Route 80 ; it is now signed as a business loop of Interstate 8.
In 2015, a restaurant franchise investment group bought Fosters Freeze. [12] It modernized the brand [16] and operations; sales have increased every year since then. [17] As of 2021, the company plans to add locations for the first time since 2006. [18] As of January 2024, there are 62 Fosters Freeze locations, all in California. [3]
El Cajon takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was owned by the family of Don Miguel de Pedrorena, a Californio ranchero and signer of the California Constitution.. El Cajón, Spanish for "the box", was first recorded on September 10, 1821, as an alternative name for sitio rancho Santa Mónica to describe the "boxed-in" nature of the valley in which it sat.