Since 1984, The Melting Pot franchises have opened nationwide, serving a variety of cheese and dessert fondues, salads and entrees including filet mignon, lobster tail, sirloin and breast of chicken, all prepared in different fondue cooking styles. No restaurant experience is required to become a franchisee.

Roy W. Allen opened his first beverage stand in Lodi, California, in 1919. Three years later, he joined forces with Frank Wright to form the A&W Root Beer Co. In addition to selling root beer, A&W established a chain of drive-up restaurants that served the company’s root beer as well as favorites like hot dogs, [...]

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In Springfield, Massachusetts at the height of the Great Depression in 1935, 20 year-old Prestley Blake and his 18 year-old brother Curtis opened an ice cream shop called Friendly that served double-dip cones for 5 cents. The brothers opened a second shop five years later in West Springfield, Massachusetts and added food to the menu. [...]

Founded by Jack Faulk and Richard Thomas in 1977, Bojangle’s serves Cajun-style chicken, buttermilk biscuits and other favorites to customers throughout the southeastern United States.Today the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company, which also has restaurants in Honduras and Jamaica, offers a menu that includes chicken, biscuits, rice, french fries and sandwiches. Bojangle’s locations also serve breakfast.

With a loan of $500, Howard Dearing Johnson purchased a small patent medicine shop in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1925. He used an old-fashioned, hand-cranked freezer in the store’s basement to make vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream for the shop’s soda fountain. Three years later, with menu additions like hot dogs and hamburgers, he opened [...]

Golden Corral restaurants began as budget steakhouses located principally in small cities from Virginia to Texas. In the mid-1980s, guest requests prompted Golden Corral to reinvent itself by introducing the Buffet & Grill Metro unit that features 150 hot and cold items, a carving station, and the Brass Bell Bakery, which offers rolls, muffins, cookies, [...]

Joe Croce opened the first CiCi’s Pizza restaurant in Plano, Texas, in 1985. CiCi’s locations offer an all-you-can-eat buffet stocked with pizza, pasta, salads and desserts.The company, which began franchising in 1987, has restaurants throughout the southern United States.

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