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Howard Johnson's – a restaurant chain that featured an iconic orange rooftop, reasonably priced, consistent-quality menu items; founded in 1929 by Howard Deering Johnson in Quincy, Massachusetts; at its cultural peak, it served more meals outside of the family home than any entity except for the US Army; in 1979 it had 1,040 locations, but ...
On April 19, Tijuana Flats, a chain of fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurants, announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed 11 restaurants. Flatheads, LLC. is now acquiring the restaurant ...
One of the first restaurant chains. At one time, had over 1,000 locations across the U.S. Final location closed in 2022. [13] How Do You Roll? Sushi United States 12 JB's Restaurants: Family United States 104 A Big Boy franchise until 1987. One restaurant in the chain was named "Galaxy Diner". Koo Koo Roo: Chicken United States 38 Owned by Luby's
The chain, born in the ’70s, at one point had more than 500 family-friendly steakhouse buffet restaurants sprinkled across the country and employed more than 20,000 people. Kenneth E./Yelp Furr’s
Photo: Shutterstock. Design: Eat This, Not That!A spate of closures swept the restaurant industry in 2023 as struggling chains shuttered dozens or even hundreds of locations.Using data from the ...
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]
In 1980 and 1981 Ninfa's opened four restaurants in Dallas. [10] In 1981 the chain grossed $30 million. In 1982 the chain had 13 restaurants. [11] Because of problems with the business, Ninfa's ultimately had to close three of the four new Dallas locations. [10] At later points in the 1980s Ninfa's closed another Dallas location and a San ...
In the ‘80s, the chain was sold to another ill-fated company, Kmart, but it wasn’t until its parent company went under in 2021 that it closed for good along with all its sister restaurants.