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- 13 Jun 2024 17:36
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: KFC Chicken... being sold at other restaurants via a franchise
- Replies: 4
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KFC Chicken... being sold at other restaurants via a franchise
Apparently back in the early days of KFC, the Colonel allowed people to sell his famous brand of fried chicken... at other independent restaurant chains. The most prominent example that I could find of this is Kenny Kings, a former 'family restaurant' chain from Ohio (if I remember correctly), which...
- 12 Jun 2024 11:25
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2213
Re: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
Here's a cool photo that I found on Worthpoint, showing various locations It would apear that near the end of the chains lifespand, they decided to remodel their restaurants with a coverd wagon design? (as seen in the middle photo) 1_6edaba509ccb01a4b04d681bac7b9a26.jpg Apparently the covered wagon...
- 12 Jun 2024 01:33
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2213
Re: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
I thought that Kelly's went out of business in 1974, however I found this ad from 1976 that has the "KELLY'S" name on it https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/520852061/?match=1&terms=Kelly%27s%20East%20Washington%20Ave I put one of the building addresses from said ad into the search bar...
- 11 Jun 2024 23:46
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2213
Re: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
Here's a cool photo that I found on Worthpoint, showing various locations
It would apear that near the end of the chains lifespand, they decided to remodel their restaurants with a coverd wagon design? (as seen in the middle photo)
It would apear that near the end of the chains lifespand, they decided to remodel their restaurants with a coverd wagon design? (as seen in the middle photo)
- 11 Jun 2024 23:25
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2213
Re: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
The "Boulevard Burger & Brew" restaurant in Richmond, VA is still operating out of an original Kelly's Hamburgers building And according to pictures of the place that I found on TripAdvisor, they framed a grand opening newspaper ad from when the restaurant was still Kelly's https://www...
- 01 May 2024 08:57
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
- Replies: 2
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Re: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
Back in the mid 1980s, I came across a White Castle clone in Long Beach, CA called "West Castle." I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was fairly close to the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Long Beach Airport. From what I remember, the building was similar to White Castles of t...
- 01 May 2024 08:53
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11022
Re: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
Back in the mid 1980s, I came across a White Castle clone in Long Beach, CA called "West Castle." I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was fairly close to the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Long Beach Airport. From what I remember, the building was similar to White Castles of t...
- 28 Apr 2024 16:36
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2213
Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
Has anyone ever heard of this chain? Apparently were actually a somewhat decent sized chain before disappearing sometime in the early to mid 1970's. https://www.flickr.com/photos/64900616@N04/8639327042 https://danielebrady.blogspot.com/2013/03/kellys-jet-system-hamburgers-1963.html https://defunct-...
- 30 Mar 2024 16:47
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16498
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
K B Toys used to have stores inside of Sears From what I could tell these were done in the early 2000s as a seasonal thing and not a year-round thing. I'm more interested in regional departments... So Macy's wasn't the first with Toys R Us... Montgomery Ward had a full sized Toys "R" Us i...
- 28 Mar 2024 21:43
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16498
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
Did anyone mention the Bell Phone Centers yet? They were a chain of stand alone phones stores operated by the Bell System before having some short-lived departments (around 3 years) inside of select Sears locations, All of them were converted into AT&T Phone Centers, which included the Sears dep...
- 26 Mar 2024 15:57
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Super Rite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6689
Re: Super Rite
Richfood acquired Super Rite in 1995BatteryMill wrote: ↑28 Feb 2022 15:51 Was this chain ever folded into Richfood (later SuperValu and UNFI)? I recall there were some exchanges with Shoppers of Washington, D.C. as well.
- 26 Mar 2024 09:59
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Super Rite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6689
Re: Super Rite
Apparently "Super Rite" was never a chain of grocery stores rather, a food distribution company. Rite Aid didn't start the company either. From what I've heard, when Pantry Pride went out of business, Rite Aid acquired one of their food distributors, changed the name of it to "Super ...
- 22 Feb 2024 15:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 134663
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Better quality image:retail_person_247 wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024 14:50 Kroger appears to have also tried out the Family Center format with their Henke & Pilot stores:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/lake ... 109375350/
- 22 Feb 2024 14:50
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 134663
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Kroger appears to have also tried out the Family Center format with their Henke & Pilot stores:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
- 10 Jan 2024 19:08
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6227
Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
Does anybody remember ServiStar? They were a chain of franchised hardware stores, merged with Coast To Coast in 1990 (though both chains still operated under their own respective names), merged with True Value in 1996, all 3 stores went under their own name until 1999 when both ServiStar & Coast...