Fast-food chains of the United States

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Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken

Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken

Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain that started in 1976 in South Los Angeles by Joe Dion, a Michigan native.

The company is a franchise venture where licensees pay for license rights and a flour and red pepper recipe used to coat the dishes but are otherwise not restricted.

By 2017 there were 148 Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken restaurants in the United States, mostly run by Cambodians, and ownership of the company had been transferred to Michael P. Eng.

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LYFE Kitchen

LYFE Kitchen is an American fast-food restaurant chain operating in California, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee. The company's name is an acronym that stands for "Love Your Food Everyday".

LYFE was founded in 2011 by Mike Roberts, the former global president of McDonald's, Stephen Sidwell, and Mike Donahue, McDonald's former chief of corporate communications in Palo Alto, California. The company plans to open up to 20 locations during 2015.

In 2013, the "Lyfe Kitchen Retail" division was launched to sell a number of transfat-free frozen entrees through Target, Publix, Safeway, Amazon, and other outlets. The division was renamed "Luvo" after being bought by its current CEO, former Lululemon CEO Christine M. Day. The company is reportedly planning an IPO.

While acting as president of McDonald's, Mike Roberts tried to push the fast-food restaurant toward serving more nutritionally-oriented fare, most notably by leading the development of the Apple Dippers now served in McDonald's Happy Meals. After his resignation as president and the expiration of his noncompete agreement, Roberts' business partner, Stephen Sidwell approached Roberts and Mike Donahue (also a former McDonald's executive) with a business idea for a healthier brand of fast-food. By March 2010, they had created a sample menu with the help of Oprah’s celebrity chefs, Art Smith and Tal Ronnen.

In August 2011, LYFE Kitchen opened it first location in Palo Alto, California. Then CEO Mike Roberts told the Palo Alto Patch, "We chose Palo Alto because of the people, because of the innovative spirit here. Because a lot of early adopters to movements that move across the country start here in California. We can get our produce here fresh, local, organic, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, all within a hundred miles of Palo Alto". The restaurant was met with positive reviews from critics and locals, and the company soon expanded to other locations throughout California. By 2013, LYFE Kitchen opened its first franchise location in Chicago.

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MaggieMoo%27s Ice Cream and Treatery

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Maid-Rite

Maid-Rite Corporation

Maid-Rite is an American casual dining franchise restaurant chain. Before it became a restaurant chain, it was a single restaurant, opened in 1926 by Fred Angell. By the end of the 1920s, there were four franchises granted; these four restaurants are still in operation.

Maid-Rite Corporation's CEO and president is Bradley L. Burt. The corporate headquarters are located in Des Moines, Iowa. As of April 2006, Maid-Rite had over 70 locations, located in Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri. The Quincy, Illinois, location was featured in the Food Network show Feasting on Asphalt.

Angell was a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, who combined a special cut and grind of meat with a selected set of spices and created the Maid-Rite sandwich, which is not a traditional hamburger. Rather, it is called a "loose meat" sandwich. While the component meat is similar, the Maid-Rite sandwich's meat is not formed into a patty, making it similar to a sloppy joe without the tomato-based sauce.

Angell opened his first restaurant in Muscatine, which was strictly walk-up. Later, a new eat-in building was opened. He and his son, Francis Angell, opened a second restaurant, featuring a "car hop" or drive-in service. This was the first such service of this kind in the United States; A&W Restaurants and White Castle Restaurants replicated this service shortly thereafter.

The first franchise was opened in Durant, Iowa, which still maintains a Maid-Rite restaurant. Maid-Rite began to grow in the number of franchises throughout the United States under the direction of William Angell, the grandson of the founder.

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Manchu Wok

Manchu Wok Inc.

Manchu Wok Inc. is a Canadian Chinese-themed fast food restaurant chain in the United States and Canada. The chain operates 200 stores, primarily in shopping mall locations. It was owned by Hong Kong-based Café de Coral, and now it is owned by Canada-based MTY Food Group since 2014.

Despite the chain's name, the menu does not feature any dishes from traditional Manchurian cuisine and instead contains mostly American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine.

The first store was opened by Dr. Jack Lew and other Hong Kong immigrants in 1980 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Lew hired food service equipment consultant Alfred Grech, a Maltese immigrant, to design and help with the building of the first 33 stores. In 1992, Lew sold the company to Scott's Hospitality Inc. At the time of the sale, there were 113 Manchu Wok units in Canada and United States. Under new ownership, there were 237 Manchu Wok units in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom by April 1992. By 1996, there were 245 Manchu Wok when parent company Scott's Hospitality was acquired by Laidlaw Inc. In 2000, Laidlaw sold the company to a group of investors headed by Ken Fowler and Café de Coral. At the time of the sale in 2000, there were 74 locations in Canada, 119 locations in the United States and 2 in Poland.

In 2003 and 2004, Manchu Wok expanded its operations to US military bases in Santa Rita, Guam; and Okinawa, Japan, respectively. It also has location on a U.S. Army garrison in Korea, and Ramstein Air Base in Germany. and US Army Base, Grafenwohr, Germany.

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Manhattan Bagel

Einstein Bros. Bagels

Einstein Bros. Bagels is an American bagel and coffee chain.

Einstein Bros. was created by the chain restaurant corporation Boston Chicken (now Boston Market) in 1995, as a way to market breakfast foods. The chain is now owned by Einstein and Noah Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc.

Boston Chicken, Inc. originally formed the Einstein and Noah Bagel Corporation as Progressive Bagel Concepts, Incorporated (PBCI) in March 1995, when it purchased three retail bagel chains, all located in regions of the United States that did not have longstanding bagel traditions. These companies included Offerdahl's Bagel Gourmet, Incorporated (Fort Lauderdale), Bagel & Bagel, Incorporated (Kansas City), Baltimore Bagel (San Diego), and Brackman Brothers, Incorporated (Salt Lake City). Each found that their stores were similar in that they offered both original and new bagel flavors in rich neighborhoods where the customers had relatively little previous exposure to bagels.

Noah's Bagels was founded by Noah Alper on College Avenue in Berkeley, California. In 1996, the chain of 38 stores was sold to Einstein Bros. for $100 million.

New World Coffee was founded in the early 1990s by Ramin Kamfar, an investment banker who left his finance career to open a coffee shop. It bought Manhattan Bagel out of bankruptcy in 1998. The combined company purchased Washington, D.C.-based Chesapeake Bagel Bakery in 1999 when that chain had 89 stores, giving Manhattan approximately 350 locations.

By 2000, Einstein Bros. was in financial trouble, having loaned too much money to franchisees. After it declared bankruptcy, New World Coffee, which had earlier attempted an unsuccessful hostile takeover, bought the company out of bankruptcy for $190 million.

In 2014, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group was acquired by JAB Holding Company and BDT Capital Partners.

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McCaf%C3%A9

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Martin%27s BBQ

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McAlister%27s Deli

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Maui Tacos

Maui Tacos is a fast food franchise restaurant that serves Mexican food with a twist of Hawaiian flavor. The first Maui Tacos was opened by Mark Ellman in 1993 in Nāpili, Maui, Hawaiʻi. Ellman opened six more locations in Hawaiʻi before opening his first store in the mainland in 1998. Maui Tacos now has 21 restaurants in 11 states (including the District of Columbia) and recently opened its sixth Maui location, in Kalama Village, Kihei. In June 2009, the company's eight Hawaii locations were sold to Maui Tacos International, the New York-based company that operated the mainland locations under a franchise agreement.

The menu includes tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, enchiladas, and salads. Ingredients for the tacos and burritos include pork, chicken, beef, steak, or fish. Each location includes a salsa bar with fresh salsa in exotic flavors.

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