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| Subsidiary of TruFoods Systems, Inc | |
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Founded | 1969 in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Headquarters | New York, U.S. |
| Products | Seafood |
| Website | www |
Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips is a fast food seafood restaurant chain. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s, it had about 800 stores. As of 2016[update], following the closure of the sole Virginia and Pennsylvania locations, there are seven remaining, three in New York and four in Ohio. Most locations have been co-branded with Nathan's Famous. In the Rochester, New York area, there are seven Arthur Treacher's locations, all co-branded with Salvatore's Old Fashioned Pizzeria. The menu offers fried seafood or chicken, accompanied by chips. Its main competitors are Long John Silver's and Captain D's. In 2015, a co-branded Nathan's Famous and Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips opened in the food court of the Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino in Murphy, NC.
The chain was named after Arthur Treacher (1894–1975), an English character actor typecast as "the perfect butler" for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several Shirley Temple films, and the role of Constable Jones in Walt Disney Productions' Mary Poppins. At the time the chain was founded, Treacher was best known as the announcer and sidekick on the popular The Merv Griffin Show. Treacher "served as a spokesman for the restaurant chain in its early years, underscoring the British character of its food." In a 1975 interview, New England franchise vice president M. John Elliott claimed the fish recipe to be the actor's own, brought over from the United Kingdom.
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