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Anyone remember KFC and IHOP together back in the 60's ...long before it was popular. I vaguely remember one somewhere like Gatlinburg, TN or the Smokey Mountains somewhere. When the Colonel started franchising his fried chicken, most KFC franchisers were independent restaraunts (including several B...

Here is a question that could be of interest to those on this website. Which grocery chains founded free standing cafeterias and restaraunt chains ?(not combined with their stores) Here are a few.... Alpha Beta - Alphy's Restaraunts/Coffee Shops Furr's - Furr's Cafeterias Wyatt Food Stores (Dallas-b...

The first Sambo's was built in Santa Barbara...and has outlived the chain it started http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/a_stones_throw/sambos/default.asp The name Sambo's actually was a combo of the first names of the founders...Sam and Bo. We all know about the "little black Sambo" contro...

Was this a converted Alpha Beta or Lucky?

Yes, during the 80s KMart owned Furr's/Bishop's Cafeterias..they are now under different ownership. Furr's Cafs haved outlived their parent, Furr's supermarkets (which closed down in 2002 thanks to the Fleming bankruptcy)

There were a large number of SuperX stores in AZ, a number of them adjoining Fry's stores (this was before the Kroger-Dillon merger). In the mid-80s the SuperX stores were sold to local investors-of which one was Charles Keating. Then SuperX/Arizona bought Revco's AZ stores, and the whole operation ...

Add to this- FedMart in the Western states, founded by Sol Price (who later started Price Club) in the 1950s. Grocery/discount store combination whose primary market was gov't employees/military. Was bought by a German company in the 70s, went out of business in the mid 1980s (Target picked up a bun...

Having odd store combinations is nothing new for Kroger and its various store brands. The City Market in Cortez, Colo has a JC Penney catalog desk and a Blockbuster Video outlet. BTW, the City Market in Cortez has an interesting history. It was a smaller store in the downtown area of that town, then...

Kroger's "Marketplace" format has its basis in the Fred Meyer superstores in the NW and Smitty's (now Fry's Marketplace) in AZ. Both were a supermarket and dept. store combo. Smitty's not only sold jewelry and clothing along with groceries, but also sold sporting goods - including guns. Th...

Big Bear, maybe? Food Basket(Lucky)?

Skaggs Alpha Beta also operated in New Mexico (they were the old Skaggs-Albertsons joint venture operation stores. When American merged with Jewel, they became Jewel/Osco - the same time that the Skaggs drugstores became Osco. Finally when ABS bought American, the NM Jewel/Oscos became (again!) Albe...

Mayfair ran the El Rancho chain in Phoenix and Flagstaff and Food Giant in Tucson. In the 70s, a large number of El Ranchos were converted to a discount format called "Low Cost". They weren't as nice as the El Ranchos. Just before Mayfair pulled out of AZ, they changed the Low Costs back t...

Is U-Tell-Um the same as the old "U-Tote-Um" convenience store chain? Their slogan was "U-tell-Um U-Tote-M!"

On Market Basket - they were basically Kroger of California - they sold Kroger private label goods and Tenderay brand beef. And I think the Market Basket spinoff was what started Yucaipa (an investment co. that has varying levels of ownership in a number of grocers) in the supermaket combining busin...

In the first "Revenge of the Nerds" movie-which was filmed at the Univ. of Arizona-one of the kitchen scenes included a 6-pak of "Dutch Treat" Beer. Dutch Treat was made by the Heileman brewery in Phoenix (the old A-1 brewery) and sold exclusively through the A.J. Bayless grocery...