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Bob Chinn (March 2, 1923 – April 15, 2022) was an American restaurateur. [1] His most well-known creation is Bob Chinn's Crab House , in Wheeling , Illinois , which opened in 1982 and was ranked by Forbes magazine in August 2012 as the top grossing restaurant in America with an estimated $24 million in revenue.
The Blackhawk was a restaurant in the Chicago Loop from 1920 to 1984. It served a menu of American cuisine, notably prime rib and a signature "spinning salad bowl", and was, in the early part of its history a nationally known entertainment venue for Big Band music. Its legacy continued until 2009 at Don Roth's Blackhawk in Wheeling, Illinois.
This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese restaurant style.
Bob Chinn may refer to: Bob Chinn (film director) (born 1943), American adult film director Bob Chinn (restaurateur) (1923–2022), American owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House
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Bob Evans Restaurants is an American chain of restaurants owned by Golden Gate Capital based in New Albany, Ohio.After its founding in 1948 by Bob Evans (1918–2007), the restaurant chain evolved into a company with the corporate brand name "Bob Evans Farms, Inc." (BEF), and eventually established a separate food division to handle the sale of its products in other markets.
In 1985, Chin, who had run the day-to-day operations, sold the rights to her name and her restaurants to General Mills. [2] [3] Chin regained the ownership of her business in 1988. [3] By the time Chin left the business in the late 1990s, the Leeann Chin chain had become a Chinese fast food operation. [2]
Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California Gold Rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton (Kwangtung or Guangdong) region of China. The first documented Chinese restaurant opened in 1849 as the Canton Restaurant. [34] By 1850, there were five restaurants in San Francisco. Soon ...