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The following restaurants and restaurant chains are located in Houston, Texas This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Abiertas was also involved in advocating for equal rights for women in the Philippines, including women's suffrage. She wrote a lecture called "The New Age for Women." [5] Abiertas was a Baptist, [2] supporter of the YMCA [2] and a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Manila. [6] Abiertas died in 1929 of tuberculosis. [5] [7]
In 1988, there were 55 Pancho's Mexican Buffet restaurants. [15] At the end of 2000, there were 48 restaurants, and the company employed 2001 people. [14] In September 2004, there were 40 restaurants, located in the U.S. states of Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. [16]
The first Houston's restaurant was launched by current owner and CEO George Biel, Joe Ledbetter and Vic Branstetter in 1977 in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] [3] Bransetter sold his shares in 2006, and Ledbetter in 2011, leaving George Biel sole owner of the company.
The restaurant became a family-owned corporation. [5] Around 1976 the restaurant was becoming popular among many groups of people, including employees in Downtown Houston, area politicians, and other groups. [6] Ninfa's became so popular that, in 1975, [3] she opened a second location on Westheimer Road, [1] one that was larger than the ...
Some Japanese restaurants in Houston are owned by persons of Japanese backgrounds, although the majority are not. There was a restaurant named Tokyo Gardens which stopped operations in 1998; Erica Cheng of the Houston Chronicle wrote that during the period it was active, it "was Houston’s premier Japanese restaurant". [24]
Market Square is a public plaza bounded by Travis and Milam streets, and Congress and Preston avenues. Numbered as Block 34 and named "Congress Square" in the original Borden Survey of Houston, it was renamed Market Square after Augustus Allen chose a site for the capitol at the northwest corner of Main Street and Texas Avenue in 1837.
The developer of the Houstonian Hotel was Tom Fatjo, a Houstonian who had also founded Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI). [2] The hotel opened in 1980. [3] George Alexander of the Houston Press said that the hotel was "built as a health club for business executives trying to shed pounds and rediscover their inner velociraptor".