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Sandy's was a chain of American fast-food restaurants begun in 1956 by four entrepreneurs from Kewanee, Illinois: Gus "Brick" Lundberg, Robert C. Wenger, Paul White and W. K. Davidson. Sandy's was the ancestor of the midwestern franchises of the Hardee's restaurant chain.
Raymond Albert Kroc was born on October 5, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, to Czech-American parents, Rose Mary [née Hrach] (1881–1959) and Alois "Louis" Kroc (1879–1937).
Sandy's; Schrafft's; Sholl's Colonial Cafeteria; ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen; ShowBiz Pizza Place; Signatures Restaurant; Sisters Chicken & Biscuits – founded in 1979, this was Wendy's first attempt to expand beyond burgers [10] [11] [12] Sokolowski's University Inn, Cleveland, Ohio; Soul Daddy; Specialty Restaurant Group; Steak and Ale ...
This inexpensive rotisserie chicken chain once had nearly 350 locations across the United States, but has closed 95% of its restaurants since 2022, according to Restaurant Business. As of December ...
Ray Kroc transformed a small family-owned burger stand into McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food empire.
Although their restaurant was successful, differences with McDonald's founder Ray Kroc led the group to open their own regional restaurant chain which they called Sandy's. The Sandy's restaurants were a smaller, less-corporate and more-personal chain; Lundberg made it a habit to visit every single Sandy's personally on a regular basis and get ...
Rudolph Ferrucci, 66, of Plymouth, the former owner of Sandy’s restaurant, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley to two years’ probation, with the first six months to be ...
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]