How about Tippin’s Restaurant and Pies? I’m not sure if I ever actually ate at the restaurant, but a Tippin’s pie was a special treat at my house when we were growing up. The local one closed down many years ago.
Ah thanks for the correction. I just remember Colonel Sanders on the Gino’s menu in Delaware.
gods here in va i can remember most of these chains like lums, burger chef,sambo’s (unfortunally) bob’s big boy, kenny rogers
(and yes strangly enough kr’s are still around but mostly in 'NOVA) (that’s northern va ya’ll)
and churches fried chicken they’re still around here in va and the same for popeye’s here (through here in va they’ve gone bankrupt and still came back as well)
gods i can remember ferrels ice cream (giggle) very old timey but still a good place to spend a sunday afternoon,
and we also had 'po folks as well but now they’re only in florida and 'bama only,
oh and shakeys pizza as well, yep and stuckeys and RAX are still around, i’d stoped at two stuckeys in north and south carolina last summer not the same as the originals but they STILL had the same stuff.
oh and about DUFF’s i saw one a few years back in (blush) pidgon forge tennessee yep it might be the only one left but who knows,
and about ferrels they’re also still around mostlly on the west coast i think in la or portland i think.
and the only green burito location in the south is co-branded with a hardee’s just outside of myrtle beach sc.
here in va we used to have what-a-burger, i’d seen a photo of a newer one built in south carolina but bugger all if i can remember i seem to think it was in clemson but i could be wrong.
oh and about what-a-burger there’s two different companys using the names what-a-burger has locations in va and the carolinas but whataburger is a west coast chain not conected to the east coast branch (confusing yep just wikied it and it’s a bit of a mess to untangle through)
Did they serve zombie meat or any capital letters?
White Castle? Sure. It’s at 21-01 Broadway, Astoria, New York. --gag-- Universally regarded as the edible solution for the irksome personal problem of severe constipation, this chain keeps gamely slugging along. To the last, every experience with White Castle’s trademarked steamed burgers has been a…uh… liberating experience. :eek:
Gino’s Burgers and Chicken, famous from Maryland to Pennsylvania, has returned. Wonder how it fared. I grew up in Philly, and there was a Gino’s on Cheltenham Avenue. I think it turned into a Colonel Sander’s Kentucky Fried Chicken. Decades ago, of course.
On Preview: TriPolar covered some of this. 
I looked online and there’s still one open in my state: Fazoli’s. Looks like they are doing OK nationally, but I can name ::counts:: 5 locations that have gone belly-up, 3 of which are within about 40 miles of me. I never found the story, but I guess it was an owner/operator who went broke. 
(god, I loved Fazoli’s.)
York Steak House
There’s nine of those still open up and down the Front Range.
We called them Graveyards growing up.
Marie Callendars seems to be on its way out. They’ve close pretty much all of them near me. One they closed with people still in the restaurant, and shooed a birthday celebration out the door. Without paying, I trust, but that wasn’t mentioned in the article.
Chi-Chi’s was pretty big. It was started by a retired Green Bay Packer of fame and served “Mexican” food…
Some of them, at first, were not bad… but that didn’t last and my wife and I both spent one of the sickest nights of our life after our final dinner at one, both having had the exact same meal.
I have no sense of loss…
Little Caesar’s originated in the Detroit Area and are thriving here (for debatable reasons)… I have travelled extensively but have never seen one in a Kmart that would be worth a giggle
Only from the early rap song “The Breaks” by Kurtis Blow. The verse concerns a seemingly wonderful boyfriend who turns out to be a real sleazebag. “He took you out to the Red Coach Grille, but he forgot the cash and you paid the bill…He told you the story about his life, but he forgot the part about his wife.” I first heard this song about 5 years ago and loved it immediately, which is very rare for me. (I usually have to listen to a song a few times before I decide I like it.)
LC disappeared from these parts about 15-20 years ago, then reincarnated in some local KMarts as the “food court” (to use the term loosely) a few years later. They’ve since graduated to storefronts and seem to be doing quite well.
There’s a Little Caesar’s about every 15 miles around here. A Hot’n’Ready isn’t the best pizza, but for $5 and it being instantly ready, it’s hard to beat.
We built a house off Big Bend Road in Ballwin around 1972. I remember just before moving in 1975, my mom going here with some of her friends and then we went too as a family. I remember the peanuts on the floor and a great Reuben sandwich. It seems like it was a pub-type atmosphere with lots of dark wood, but then again, I was only about 6-7 years old. I remember the whole area was new. Lots of homes going up. I went to Hanna Woods School and it had only been open for a couple of years then. This is not a restaurant, however, I was wondering if anyone remembers a drug store or variety store on Manchester Road named Katz or something like that. I remember they had one or two cats on their sign. I remember going in there and playing with this tube tester machine. BTW, I would almost kill for a Mr. Steak Continental!!! Been trying to have my wife make this for over 23 years!