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The second restaurant was opened after the owners were paid to build another by a wealthy patron and from there the owners decided to create a franchise. A training center was established in Champaign, named "Rover College" after the dog on the restaurant signage. [6] At its peak in 1968, the chain had about 650 restaurants. [4]
The Naples Historic District is a U.S. historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, located in Naples, Florida. [1] The 500 acres (2.0 km 2) district is bounded by Ninth Avenue S, 3rd Street, Thirteenth Avenue S, and the Gulf of Mexico. It contains 65 historic houses, two historic commercial buildings, and 26 ...
Lum's was an American family restaurant chain based in Florida with additional locations in several states. It was founded in 1956 in Miami Beach, Florida, by Stuart and Clifford S. Perlman [1] when they purchased Lum's hot dog stand for $10,000. Over the next few years, the Perlman brothers opened three additional Lum's restaurants, for a ...
Many restaurants, past and present, claim to have invented Crab Louis. [31] Historians agree that Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog has one of the strongest of those claims. [31] Bergez-Frank's originally had a special menu item titled "Crab Leg a la Louis," named for famed restaurateur and co-owner of the Poodle Dog after his death in 1908. [31]
It is part of the Naples-Marco Island, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community was founded in 2005 by Ave Maria Development, a partnership of Barron Collier Companies and the Ave Maria Foundation led by Catholic entrepreneur Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza and Ave Maria University, which is located in the heart of town.
Portillo's Restaurant Group, Inc. [4] is an American fast casual restaurant chain based in the Chicago area that specializes in serving Chicago-style food such as hot dogs, Maxwell Street Polish, and Italian beef. The company was founded by Dick Portillo on April 9, 1963, in Villa Park, Illinois, under the name "The Dog House".
Castel dell'Ovo ("Egg Castle") is a seafront castle in Naples, located on the former island of Megaride, now a peninsula, on the Gulf of Naples in Italy. The castle's name comes from a legend about the Roman poet Virgil, who had a reputation in the Middle Ages as a great sorcerer and predictor of the future. In the legend, Virgil put a magical ...
The historic center of Naples bears witness to the historical and artistic evolution of the city, from its first Greek settlement in the 8th century BC along the area overlooking the sea, [2] the re-founding of the same city in a more internal area, constituting the "ancient center (Centro Storico)", up to the Spanish Baroque city that saw the opening towards the west of the urban nucleus and ...