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Roy Rogers Restaurant at the Indian Castle Service Plaza in Danube, New York on the New York State Thruway. This location, along with the entire service plaza, closed in July 2021 as part of a state incentive to modernize all service plazas in the state by demolishing them and rebuilding them.
The Briad Group was founded in October 1987 by Brad Honigfeld when he opened his first franchise of Steve's Ice Cream/Carnegie Deli in Princeton, New Jersey. The company opened a Roy Rogers restaurant in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey in 1988 and continued to grow its restaurant business. In 1993, the company opened its first TGI Fridays ...
Herb Slotnick bought the franchise rights for the New York area and started opening restaurants in the Syracuse, New York, area in the early 1960s. They expanded over the years throughout New York State. During the 1960s, a yellow slug character served as Carrols' first mascot, replaced in 1974 by a young blonde boy wearing a tweed suit and a ...
In New England, another company was the KFC franchisee. Gino's still sold chicken but it was made with a different seasoning from the KFC one. The chain had 359 company-owned locations when the Marriott Corporation acquired it in 1982. [3] Marriott discontinued the brand and converted locations to its Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. [4]
1. Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrels are open regular hours on Thanksgiving. You can eat a turkey dinner in the restaurant, or order a Thanksgiving family-size meal to go if you don’t feel like ...
JB's (Canada - Ontario, Alberta and Quebec, 1969–1979, founded by John Bitove Sr.) Bitove, a well-known Canadian businessman, was the franchisee for Canada generally, along with Roy Rogers Restaurants, both Marriott owned brands. JB's of Canada grew to 32 Big Boy restaurants before selling to Elias Brothers. [198]
At the suggestion of the new Marriott board member Bob Wian, cowboy actor Roy Rogers was contacted to lend his name to the roast beef sandwich venture, and the Roy Rogers Family Restaurants was formed a few months later by converting RoBee's and a few Hot Shoppe locations. [12] [13] Over the years, Marriott's company interests expanded.
At the time Hunt International bought Shakey's in 1974, the restaurant chain had approximately 500 stores throughout the United States, including stores as far east as Latham, New York and Westbrook, Maine. [22] [21] Two franchisees bought the chain in 1984 and they sold out to Inno-Pacific Holdings of Singapore in 1989.