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Shoney's

January 01, 1970

Shoney's is an American restaurant chain headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. As of April 2024, the company operates 58 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Shoney’s North America, LLC
Shoney's
Company typePrivate
IndustryRestaurant
GenreFamily dining
Founded1947; 77 years ago (1947) in Charleston, West Virginia, United States (Parkette);
1959; 65 years ago (1959) in Madison, Tennessee, United States (Danner Foods)
FoundersAlex Schoenbaum
Raymond L. Danner, Sr.
Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
Key people
David Davoudpour, CEO
ProductsBreakfast foods, Appetizers, Burgers, Sandwiches, Chicken, Seafood, Pulled Pork, and Desserts[1]
Revenue US$388.16 million (2019[2])
OwnerDavid Davoudpour
Number of employees
2,500 (2019[2])
Websitewww.shoneys.com

Founder Alex Schoenbaum opened the first Parkette Drive-In in 1947, and became a licensee of Big Boy Restaurants in 1952. Two years later the name was changed to Shoney's, and aggressive subfranchising followed. Thirty years later, having outgrown its Big Boy territory, Shoney's dropped the Big Boy affiliation.

History

1947-1958: early years as Big Boy franchisee

In 1947, Alex Schoenbaum opened the Parkette Drive-In next to his father's bowling alley in Charleston, West Virginia.[3] After meeting with Big Boy founder Bob Wian in 1951, Schoenbaum became a Big Boy franchisee on February 7, 1952, now calling his several locations the Parkette Big Boy Shoppes.[4][5] In May 1954, a public "Name the Parkette Big Boy Contest" was announced, and in June 1954 Schoenbaum's five Parkette Drive-Ins were rebranded as Shoney's.[6][7]

Shoney's (the Parkette) was originally the Big Boy franchisee for West Virginia;[8] however, Schoenbaum rapidly grew the chain through subfranchising, expanding his Big Boy territory through the southeastern United States, excluding Florida where the rights already belonged to fellow Big Boy franchisee Frisch's.

Schoenbaum's earliest subfranchisees operated under their own names. In 1955, Leonard Goldstein became a subfranchisee in Roanoke, Virginia. Originally operating as Shoney's, he eventually changed to Lendy's Big Boy after another Shoney's subfranchisee called Yoda's Big Boy opened across town. In 1956 a subfranchise was sold to the Boury brothers in northern West Virginia, who operated as Elby's.[9] Elby's, Lendy's, and Yoda's units were originally listed with Shoney's units on the back of the Shoney's menu.[10] Also in 1956, Schoenbaum sold a subfranchise to Abe Becker in Rochester, New York, for Becker's Big Boy. Two Philadelphia area subfranchises, Tunes and Arnold's, were opened during this period as well. In 1959 subfranchisee Abe Adler opened Adler's Big Boy in Lynchburg, Virginia, which was later sold to Lendy's.[11][12] Also in 1959 Shap's Big Boy was subfranchised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, later assuming the Shoney's name.[13] After this, all subfranchises went by the name Shoney's.

A Shoney's franchisee purchased the parent company in 1971. Under his leadership Shoney's doubled in size every four years, eventually operating or licensing over one third of the Big Boy restaurants nationwide.[14][15]

1959-1975: expansion of Shoney's and going public

Selling vending machines in the late 1950s, Ray Danner noticed the popularity of Frisch's Big Boy and other drive–in restaurants. Danner, who had operated small businesses, wanted a single Big Boy in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Because Frisch's had a Louisville franchisee, he and business partner James Craft contacted Alex Schoenbaum and bought the Shoney's Nashville franchise for $1000.[16] In 1959, the pair opened their first Shoney's Big Boy in Madison, a Nashville suburb, built four more by 1961,[17] and a total of seven Shoney's Big Boys when Danner bought Craft's interest.[16] Then known as Shoney's Big Boy of Middle Tennessee, by 1966 the company operated 10 Big Boys. That year Danner acquired the Louisville Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise, which would grow to 22 stores over 15 years.[16][18]

 
Shoney's in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

In 1969, Shoney's Big Boy of Middle Tennessee and the KFC subsidiary became a public company and was renamed Danner Foods, Inc., with Danner as president.[19] The company now included 14 Big Boy restaurants, and by 1970, added one Big Boy in Columbus, Georgia and another in Opelika, Alabama.[20] Danner wanted additional Shoney's territory but Schoenbaum was developing those areas himself, so the company opened a similar "Danner's Family Restaurant" in Louisville, the first of several.[21]

Danner Foods opened a fast-food seafood and hamburger concept, Mr. D's Seafood and Hamburgers.[22] Launched on August 15, 1969, 9 stores would open by January 1971, growing to 32 stores by 1975, when Danner's namesake Mr. D's would remove hamburgers from the menu, focusing on seafood entirely and being renamed Captain D's, along with franchises being offered.[23][20][24] By 1977, over 140 restaurants had opened and "Hamburger" was dropped from the "Captain D's Seafood" name.[23] The number of Captain D's restaurants would quadruple over the following decade.[25] Danner Foods also opened Mr. D's Islander Restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama, which offered gourmet dining including seafood, steaks and Cantonese cuisine.[26]

By 1971, Danner's company had become the second largest Shoney's franchisee by number of units.[27] That year, Danner Foods bought the Shoney's trademark and assets from Alex Schoenbaum, Danner becoming president and CEO, moving the headquarters and commissary from Charleston to Nashville; Danner also changed the legal name of the companies from Shoney's Big Boy Franchising Companies, Inc., Parkette Commissary, Inc. and his Danner Foods, Inc. to Shoney's Big Boy Enterprises, Inc..[16][28] Schoenbaum became Chairman of the board of directors. As director of a public company, he was forced to close his personally owned Shoney's #1, the original Parkette Drive–in, by 1975.[29]

1976-2006: leaving Big Boy and bankruptcy

In 1976, five years after being renamed Shoney's Big Boy Enterprises, Inc., stockholders approved changing the company name to Shoney's, Inc. Shoney's said this reflected the company's diverse food service brands, but added, "Shoney's is not the southern reincarnation of Frisch's Big Boy."[30] However, as Schoenbaum's wife Betty said, the change would permit Shoney's to continue expansion beyond the boundary of its Big Boy territory.[8]

In 1978, the several Danner's Family Restaurants in Louisville, were renamed Danner's Towne and Country[31] using logos increasingly similar to Shoney's.[32][33] In 1982, the company opened two Towne and Country restaurants in Tallahassee, Florida, also Frisch's Big Boy territory, but these were co–branded as Shoney's Towne and Country.[34] This caused Frisch's to sue for unfair competition, claiming a strong association of both the "Shoney's" name and "Towne and Country" concept with "Big Boy".[35] Frisch's had already filed similar civil actions against the Wheeling, West Virginia–based Elby's Big Boy franchise, which in 1971, broke ties with Frisch's and operated non–Big Boy Elby's restaurants in Ohio.[36] In March 1984, a Federal district court denied Frisch's request for a temporary injunction blocking Shoney's building additional units in Kentucky and Florida.[37] (Frisch's appealed, but in April 1985, a Federal appeals court affirmed the ruling.[38])

After Big Boy was removed from the company name in 1976, the Big Boy was becoming less and less prominent at Shoney's, disappearing completely from the company's 1983 annual report. Once called "a meal in one on a double–deck bun",[39][40] a company official now called the Big Boy hamburger, "a Depression burger, a lot of bread and no meat".[35] Following the March 1984 federal court ruling favoring Shoney's,[37] Marriott Corporation, then owner of the Big Boy trademark, negotiated a settlement that would allow Shoney's to buy out its Big Boy franchise agreement.[15] And in April 1984, Shoney's withdrew from the Big Boy system, paying Marriott $13 million (equivalent to $38.1 million in 2023).[15] (In August 1984, Elby's likewise dropped its remaining Big Boy affiliation in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.) At the time Shoney's was the largest Big Boy franchise, with 392 Shoney's Big Boy Restaurants, representing more than a third of the national Big Boy chain.[15] Like the former Big Boy stores, the Towne and Country units were renamed simply Shoney's.[41][42] Additional Shoney's restaurants opened in Frisch's Big Boy territory, three in the Cincinnati area, with plans to open three more annually until the market was saturated.[43]

Racial discrimination

In April 1989, a class action lawsuit was filed in Pensacola, Florida, charging Shoney's with widespread racial discrimination in which African American applicants were denied employment, and African American employees were denied promotion, harassed or terminated without cause, based on race, and that white managers were harassed or terminated for objecting to the practices.[44][45] The case, joined by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, was filed by nine named plaintiffs: five black employees and four white managers.[46]

The lawsuit claimed that racial policies were systemic, involving upper management including chairman Ray Danner, who was named individually as a co-defendant.[47] On restaurant visits, Danner would allegedly tell managers to "lighten the place up" if he felt too many blacks were employed at the location,[48] as "the number of blacks [needed] to coincide with [the] neighborhood ethnic group". Restaurant managers testified that Danner didn't want blacks seen by customers, because no one wanted to eat at a restaurant where "a bunch of niggers" were working.[49][48] (Danner responded that he could not remember making such statements, and denied use of the racial epithet or having such racial policies.) Managers also testified that company officials instructed them to "blacken the 'o' " in the Shoney's logo (or the "A" in Application) on job applications of African Americans.[48]

In 1993, the court approved an award of $105 million, ($132.5 million including costs and fees) the largest discrimination settlement at the time.[44][45][48][50] Danner, who in the interim became a life member of the NAACP,[51] surrendered shares of company stock worth $65 million toward the settlement,[52] and resigned from Shoney's board of directors.[51] The court also ordered a detailed company-wide affirmative action program, including training and educational programs.[53]

Among an estimated 40 thousand persons in the class, compensation was awarded to every African American person employed at Shoney's company-owned restaurants between February 4, 1985, and November 3, 1992. Eleven persons received the maximum $100,000,[45] (equivalent to $211,000 in 2023). The suit included company-owned food service operations such as Shoney's, Captain D's and Lee's Famous Recipe, but excluded franchised restaurants.[54][55]

At its peak in 1998, the restaurant chain operated or franchised over 1,800 restaurants in 34 states. None of those businesses remains a part of the Shoney's restaurant enterprise today. In 2000, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and was acquired by Texas-based investment group Lone Star Funds two years later.[56]

2007 to present: new ownership and rebranding

On January 1, 2007, Lone Star announced that the Shoney's chain - at this point down to 272 restaurants - was being sold to David Davoudpour, founder and CEO of the Atlanta-based Royal Capital Corporation, the largest franchisee of Church's Chicken restaurants.[57] At the time of purchase, there were 61 corporate owned stores. Davoudpour began purchasing franchisee locations and rebranding the restaurants, including offering new menu items and upgrades to individual locations.[58]

In January 2014, Shoney's opened a location in Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville, Georgia.[59] The restaurant served as a prototype for the company brand, offering alcohol service and being the company's first mall-based location. At the time of the opening, Shoney's operated 165 restaurants in 16 states.[60] In 2017, the chain began modernizing locations with a contemporary look.[61] As of 2019, Shoney's operates locations in 17 states.[62] It also had "Shoney's On The Go" for takeout orders which is used in smaller locations such as malls and airports.[59]

Menu

Shoney's is a family casual restaurant, offering traditional American-style food such as hamburgers, chicken, steaks, fish, sandwiches, salads and desserts.[59][63] Some of its iconic menu items include the All American Burger, Slim Jim Sandwich, hot fudge cake[64] and strawberry pie.[65] Shoney's also became known for its breakfast bar beginning in the 1980s.[63] It offers full-menu dining service with some locations having buffets and alcohol service.

Shoney's Inn

In 1975, the restaurant chain founded Shoney's Inn, a motel chain. After the motels were sold off in 1991, Shoney's continued to collect royalties on the name. Between 2002 and 2006, the last remaining Shoney's Inns were re-branded as GuestHouse.[66][67]

See also

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January 01, 1970
shoney, american, restaurant, chain, headquartered, nashville, tennessee, april, 2024, company, operates, locations, alabama, florida, georgia, kentucky, louisiana, missouri, north, carolina, ohio, oklahoma, pennsylvania, south, carolina, tennessee, virginia, . Shoney s is an American restaurant chain headquartered in Nashville Tennessee As of April 2024 the company operates 58 locations in Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia Shoney s North America LLCTrade nameShoney sCompany typePrivateIndustryRestaurantGenreFamily diningFounded1947 77 years ago 1947 in Charleston West Virginia United States Parkette 1959 65 years ago 1959 in Madison Tennessee United States Danner Foods FoundersAlex SchoenbaumRaymond L Danner Sr HeadquartersNashville TennesseeKey peopleDavid Davoudpour CEOProductsBreakfast foods Appetizers Burgers Sandwiches Chicken Seafood Pulled Pork and Desserts 1 RevenueUS 388 16 million 2019 2 OwnerDavid DavoudpourNumber of employees2 500 2019 2 Websitewww wbr shoneys wbr com Founder Alex Schoenbaum opened the first Parkette Drive In in 1947 and became a licensee of Big Boy Restaurants in 1952 Two years later the name was changed to Shoney s and aggressive subfranchising followed Thirty years later having outgrown its Big Boy territory Shoney s dropped the Big Boy affiliation Contents 1 History 1 1 1947 1958 early years as Big Boy franchisee 1 2 1959 1975 expansion of Shoney s and going public 1 3 1976 2006 leaving Big Boy and bankruptcy 1 4 Racial discrimination 1 5 2007 to present new ownership and rebranding 2 Menu 3 Shoney s Inn 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory1947 1958 early years as Big Boy franchisee In 1947 Alex Schoenbaum opened the Parkette Drive In next to his father s bowling alley in Charleston West Virginia 3 After meeting with Big Boy founder Bob Wian in 1951 Schoenbaum became a Big Boy franchisee on February 7 1952 now calling his several locations the Parkette Big Boy Shoppes 4 5 In May 1954 a public Name the Parkette Big Boy Contest was announced and in June 1954 Schoenbaum s five Parkette Drive Ins were rebranded as Shoney s 6 7 Shoney s the Parkette was originally the Big Boy franchisee for West Virginia 8 however Schoenbaum rapidly grew the chain through subfranchising expanding his Big Boy territory through the southeastern United States excluding Florida where the rights already belonged to fellow Big Boy franchisee Frisch s Schoenbaum s earliest subfranchisees operated under their own names In 1955 Leonard Goldstein became a subfranchisee in Roanoke Virginia Originally operating as Shoney s he eventually changed to Lendy s Big Boy after another Shoney s subfranchisee called Yoda s Big Boy opened across town In 1956 a subfranchise was sold to the Boury brothers in northern West Virginia who operated as Elby s 9 Elby s Lendy s and Yoda s units were originally listed with Shoney s units on the back of the Shoney s menu 10 Also in 1956 Schoenbaum sold a subfranchise to Abe Becker in Rochester New York for Becker s Big Boy Two Philadelphia area subfranchises Tunes and Arnold s were opened during this period as well In 1959 subfranchisee Abe Adler opened Adler s Big Boy in Lynchburg Virginia which was later sold to Lendy s 11 12 Also in 1959 Shap s Big Boy was subfranchised in Chattanooga Tennessee later assuming the Shoney s name 13 After this all subfranchises went by the name Shoney s A Shoney s franchisee purchased the parent company in 1971 Under his leadership Shoney s doubled in size every four years eventually operating or licensing over one third of the Big Boy restaurants nationwide 14 15 1959 1975 expansion of Shoney s and going public Selling vending machines in the late 1950s Ray Danner noticed the popularity of Frisch s Big Boy and other drive in restaurants Danner who had operated small businesses wanted a single Big Boy in his hometown of Louisville Kentucky Because Frisch s had a Louisville franchisee he and business partner James Craft contacted Alex Schoenbaum and bought the Shoney s Nashville franchise for 1000 16 In 1959 the pair opened their first Shoney s Big Boy in Madison a Nashville suburb built four more by 1961 17 and a total of seven Shoney s Big Boys when Danner bought Craft s interest 16 Then known as Shoney s Big Boy of Middle Tennessee by 1966 the company operated 10 Big Boys That year Danner acquired the Louisville Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise which would grow to 22 stores over 15 years 16 18 nbsp Shoney s in Hendersonville Tennessee In 1969 Shoney s Big Boy of Middle Tennessee and the KFC subsidiary became a public company and was renamed Danner Foods Inc with Danner as president 19 The company now included 14 Big Boy restaurants and by 1970 added one Big Boy in Columbus Georgia and another in Opelika Alabama 20 Danner wanted additional Shoney s territory but Schoenbaum was developing those areas himself so the company opened a similar Danner s Family Restaurant in Louisville the first of several 21 Danner Foods opened a fast food seafood and hamburger concept Mr D s Seafood and Hamburgers 22 Launched on August 15 1969 9 stores would open by January 1971 growing to 32 stores by 1975 when Danner s namesake Mr D s would remove hamburgers from the menu focusing on seafood entirely and being renamed Captain D s along with franchises being offered 23 20 24 By 1977 over 140 restaurants had opened and Hamburger was dropped from the Captain D s Seafood name 23 The number of Captain D s restaurants would quadruple over the following decade 25 Danner Foods also opened Mr D s Islander Restaurant in Huntsville Alabama which offered gourmet dining including seafood steaks and Cantonese cuisine 26 By 1971 Danner s company had become the second largest Shoney s franchisee by number of units 27 That year Danner Foods bought the Shoney s trademark and assets from Alex Schoenbaum Danner becoming president and CEO moving the headquarters and commissary from Charleston to Nashville Danner also changed the legal name of the companies from Shoney s Big Boy Franchising Companies Inc Parkette Commissary Inc and his Danner Foods Inc to Shoney s Big Boy Enterprises Inc 16 28 Schoenbaum became Chairman of the board of directors As director of a public company he was forced to close his personally owned Shoney s 1 the original Parkette Drive in by 1975 29 1976 2006 leaving Big Boy and bankruptcy In 1976 five years after being renamed Shoney s Big Boy Enterprises Inc stockholders approved changing the company name to Shoney s Inc Shoney s said this reflected the company s diverse food service brands but added Shoney s is not the southern reincarnation of Frisch s Big Boy 30 However as Schoenbaum s wife Betty said the change would permit Shoney s to continue expansion beyond the boundary of its Big Boy territory 8 In 1978 the several Danner s Family Restaurants in Louisville were renamed Danner s Towne and Country 31 using logos increasingly similar to Shoney s 32 33 In 1982 the company opened two Towne and Country restaurants in Tallahassee Florida also Frisch s Big Boy territory but these were co branded as Shoney s Towne and Country 34 This caused Frisch s to sue for unfair competition claiming a strong association of both the Shoney s name and Towne and Country concept with Big Boy 35 Frisch s had already filed similar civil actions against the Wheeling West Virginia based Elby s Big Boy franchise which in 1971 broke ties with Frisch s and operated non Big Boy Elby s restaurants in Ohio 36 In March 1984 a Federal district court denied Frisch s request for a temporary injunction blocking Shoney s building additional units in Kentucky and Florida 37 Frisch s appealed but in April 1985 a Federal appeals court affirmed the ruling 38 After Big Boy was removed from the company name in 1976 the Big Boy was becoming less and less prominent at Shoney s disappearing completely from the company s 1983 annual report Once called a meal in one on a double deck bun 39 40 a company official now called the Big Boy hamburger a Depression burger a lot of bread and no meat 35 Following the March 1984 federal court ruling favoring Shoney s 37 Marriott Corporation then owner of the Big Boy trademark negotiated a settlement that would allow Shoney s to buy out its Big Boy franchise agreement 15 And in April 1984 Shoney s withdrew from the Big Boy system paying Marriott 13 million equivalent to 38 1 million in 2023 15 In August 1984 Elby s likewise dropped its remaining Big Boy affiliation in West Virginia and Pennsylvania At the time Shoney s was the largest Big Boy franchise with 392 Shoney s Big Boy Restaurants representing more than a third of the national Big Boy chain 15 Like the former Big Boy stores the Towne and Country units were renamed simply Shoney s 41 42 Additional Shoney s restaurants opened in Frisch s Big Boy territory three in the Cincinnati area with plans to open three more annually until the market was saturated 43 Racial discrimination In April 1989 a class action lawsuit was filed in Pensacola Florida charging Shoney s with widespread racial discrimination in which African American applicants were denied employment and African American employees were denied promotion harassed or terminated without cause based on race and that white managers were harassed or terminated for objecting to the practices 44 45 The case joined by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund was filed by nine named plaintiffs five black employees and four white managers 46 The lawsuit claimed that racial policies were systemic involving upper management including chairman Ray Danner who was named individually as a co defendant 47 On restaurant visits Danner would allegedly tell managers to lighten the place up if he felt too many blacks were employed at the location 48 as the number of blacks needed to coincide with the neighborhood ethnic group Restaurant managers testified that Danner didn t want blacks seen by customers because no one wanted to eat at a restaurant where a bunch of niggers were working 49 48 Danner responded that he could not remember making such statements and denied use of the racial epithet or having such racial policies Managers also testified that company officials instructed them to blacken the o in the Shoney s logo or the A in Application on job applications of African Americans 48 In 1993 the court approved an award of 105 million 132 5 million including costs and fees the largest discrimination settlement at the time 44 45 48 50 Danner who in the interim became a life member of the NAACP 51 surrendered shares of company stock worth 65 million toward the settlement 52 and resigned from Shoney s board of directors 51 The court also ordered a detailed company wide affirmative action program including training and educational programs 53 Among an estimated 40 thousand persons in the class compensation was awarded to every African American person employed at Shoney s company owned restaurants between February 4 1985 and November 3 1992 Eleven persons received the maximum 100 000 45 equivalent to 211 000 in 2023 The suit included company owned food service operations such as Shoney s Captain D s and Lee s Famous Recipe but excluded franchised restaurants 54 55 At its peak in 1998 the restaurant chain operated or franchised over 1 800 restaurants in 34 states None of those businesses remains a part of the Shoney s restaurant enterprise today In 2000 the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and was acquired by Texas based investment group Lone Star Funds two years later 56 2007 to present new ownership and rebranding On January 1 2007 Lone Star announced that the Shoney s chain at this point down to 272 restaurants was being sold to David Davoudpour founder and CEO of the Atlanta based Royal Capital Corporation the largest franchisee of Church s Chicken restaurants 57 At the time of purchase there were 61 corporate owned stores Davoudpour began purchasing franchisee locations and rebranding the restaurants including offering new menu items and upgrades to individual locations 58 In January 2014 Shoney s opened a location in Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville Georgia 59 The restaurant served as a prototype for the company brand offering alcohol service and being the company s first mall based location At the time of the opening Shoney s operated 165 restaurants in 16 states 60 In 2017 the chain began modernizing locations with a contemporary look 61 As of 2019 Shoney s operates locations in 17 states 62 It also had Shoney s On The Go for takeout orders which is used in smaller locations such as malls and airports 59 MenuThis section contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view April 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Shoney s is a family casual restaurant offering traditional American style food such as hamburgers chicken steaks fish sandwiches salads and desserts 59 63 Some of its iconic menu items include the All American Burger Slim Jim Sandwich hot fudge cake 64 and strawberry pie 65 Shoney s also became known for its breakfast bar beginning in the 1980s 63 It offers full menu dining service with some locations having buffets and alcohol service Shoney s InnIn 1975 the restaurant chain founded Shoney s Inn a motel chain After the motels were sold off in 1991 Shoney s continued to collect royalties on the name Between 2002 and 2006 the last remaining Shoney s Inns were re branded as GuestHouse 66 67 See alsoList of hamburger restaurants List of casual dining restaurant chains List of franchisesReferences Our Menu a b Company profile dnb com Shoneys Inc Facts information pictures Encyclopedia com articles about Shoneys Inc www encyclopedia com Retrieved July 15 2016 Parkette Advertisements Charleston Daily Mail Charleston WV February 6 1952 p 5 Retrieved February 5 2017 You Can Get A Parkette Big Boy Tomorrow Parkette Advertisements Charleston Daily Mail Charleston WV February 7 1952 pp multiple Retrieved February 5 2017 You Can Now Get A Big Boy At The Parkette Don t Miss This Sensational Treat permanent dead link Give The Parkette Big Boy Shoppes A New Name Advertisement Charleston Daily Mail May 7 1954 p 21 Retrieved October 1 2019 via newspaperarchive com Here s the Winners in the Name The Parkette Big Boy Shoppes Contest Advertisement Charleston Daily Mail June 27 1954 p 38 Retrieved October 1 2019 via newspaperarchive com a b Moore Kara Spring 2012 All American Tradition WV Living Magazine Archived from the original on October 18 2015 Frisch s Restaurant Inc v Elby s Big Boy 661 F Supp 971 S D Ohio E D 1987 Shoney s Home of the Nationally Famous Big Boy Menu 1959 back cover Archived from the original on May 28 2017 Retrieved October 1 2019 In West Virginia Elby s of Wheeling 2 locations Elby s of Moundsville In Virginia Lendy s of Roanoke Lendy s of Lynchburg Yoda s of Roanoke Note This is a photograph of an early 1960s Shoney s menu cover which lists then current Shoney s Big Boy restaurants including self named subfranchises in Shoney s territory From the archives Nostalgia on the menu The News amp Advance Lynchburg VA July 22 2019 Retrieved July 23 2019 Teague Kipp January 1 1967 Lendy s Big Boy sign Wards Road Lynchburg 1967 retrieved July 23 2019 briefly known as Adler s Big Boy Abe Adler of Lynchburg sold the business to Leonard Goldstein of Roanoke within a year or so of building and opening the restaurant Jolley Harmon July 16 2002 What Did That Building Used To Be Shap s The Chattanoogan Archived from the original on May 1 2014 Retrieved September 30 2013 Sculle Keith A Jakle John A 2002 Fast Food Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press p 79 ISBN 9780801869204 Through the 1970s and 1980s Shoney s Inc doubled its size every four years a b c d Zuckerman David May 7 1984 Shoney s secedes from Big Boy system Nation s Restaurant News Penton Media Archived from the original on July 8 2012 Retrieved April 15 2014 Graph of Shoney s net income since 1974 At Shoney s details count The New York Times June 8 1984 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved November 29 2016 Shoney s started expanding outside of its franchise territory in 1982 by opening coffee shops without Big Boy markings in neighboring states A fellow Big Boy franchisee sued to stop the move but after Shoney s won a favorable court ruling in March Marriott quickly agreed to scrap the franchise agreement for 13 million in cash a b c d Thompson Jim April 8 1984 Big Boy s big boy One man s trek from West End to executive suite The Courier Journal Louisville Kentucky p E1 E3 Retrieved April 21 2018 via Newspapers com part 2 Cason Albert October 20 1961 Food firm expands Nashville outlets Nashville Business The Tennessean Nashville Tennessee p 49 Retrieved April 24 2018 via Newspapers com Shoney s Big Boy Drive in Restaurant will open its fifth unit here in about four weeks Shoney s franchise owners here are Ray Danner and James Craft The Shoney s chain Includes approximately 40 restaurants In the southeast Locally Danner and Craft opened the first one in Madison Square Shopping Center three years ago Shoney s celebrates 25th The Clarksdale Press Register Clarksdale Mississippi January 31 1984 p 10 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Cason Albert April 6 1969 Danner Foods Inc names financial aide Nashville Business The Tennessean Second ed Nashville Tennessee p 12 F Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com a b Serving the south advertisement The Tennessean Nashville Tennessee January 10 1971 p 7 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Louisville if you like Danner s you already like Shoney s advertisement The Courier Journal Metro ed Louisville Kentucky March 5 1986 p D 5 Retrieved April 26 2018 via Newspapers com Danner Foods Inc opens new chain Business News The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro Tennessee August 28 1969 p 5 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com a b Captain D s seafood restaurant will open in Greenwood Sept 7 The Index Journal Greenwood South Carolina August 31 1977 p 6 Retrieved May 9 2019 via Newspapers com Cason Albert March 25 1975 Shoney s Launches Seafood Franchise Nashville Business The Tennessean Nashville p 19 Retrieved May 9 2019 via Newspapers com Restaurant Executive advertisement Classifieds The Atlanta Constitution June 21 1987 p 87 L Retrieved May 9 2019 via Newspapers com one of the nation s leading fast seafood chains with over 550 restaurants in 25 states 5 good reasons advertisement The Tennessean Nashville Tennessee January 11 1970 p B I 3 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Tharpe Gene October 10 1971 Shoney s still a growing Big Boy The Atlanta Constitution p 24 C Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Involvement Danner Foods growth secret The Tennessean Nashville Tennessee January 10 1971 p 16 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Haas Richard December 12 1975 End of an era Shoney s locks doors to 1950s teeny boppers spot The Charleston Daily Mail p 7 A Retrieved April 26 2018 via Newspapers com The closing was mandated by a 1971 agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission made at the time Shoney s Big Boy Enterprises sold a public stock issue Under the agreement Schoenbaum Shoney s chairman and Ray Danner the company president agreed to divest themselves of the Shoney s restaurants they owned personally The SEC would not permit the two to act as both company officials and franchisers sic Shoney s Changes Corporate Name The Charleston Daily Mail October 30 1976 p 5B Retrieved December 17 2017 via Newspapers com Top management believes Shoney s is much more than the southern reincarnation of the Frisch s Big Boy Our company is quite diversified within the food service business We believe the new name is less restrictive and more appropriate to the broader operations we have developed Statement of assumed name PDF Commonwealthh of Kentucky Office of Secretary of State February 27 1978 archived from the original PDF on April 29 2018 retrieved April 20 2018 Shoney s intends to conduct and transact business in the assumed name of Danner Town and Country Enjoy two delicious Danners dinners for only 7 49 advertisement The Courier Journal Indiana ed Louisville Kentucky January 27 1982 p C 15 Retrieved April 20 2018 via Newspapers com 12th anniversary specials advertisement The Courier Journal Metro ed Louisville Kentucky March 20 1983 p I 5 Retrieved April 25 2018 via Newspapers com Shoney s new chicken supreme dinner 4 99 advertisement Tallahassee Democrat August 28 1983 p 9C Retrieved April 22 2018 via Newspapers com 2014 Apalachee Pkwy 2833 N Monroe St a b Silverstein Stuart May 20 1984 Shoney s going after new markets The Atlanta Constitution pp 1 K 6 K 7 K Retrieved April 22 2018 via Newspapers com part 2 part 3 Frisch s Restaurant Inc v Elby s Big Boy 661 F Supp 971 1265 6 S D Ohio 1987 a b Frisch s denied injunction request The Cincinnati Enquirer March 10 1984 p C 10 Retrieved April 23 2018 via Newspapers com Frisch s Restaurant Inc v Shoney s Inc 759 F 2d 1261 6th Cir 1985 In the case at bar the district court concluded that the Big Boy mark was neither an indicator of origin nor distinctive but was a relatively weak mark By emphasizing Shoney s Big Boy Restaurants as it did in its advertising Shoney s has identified itself as the source of the services Shoney s Big Boy combination advertisement The Bee Danville Virginia February 6 1974 p 12 B Retrieved April 24 2018 via Newspapers com Shoney s Big Boy special Tuesday advertisement The Charleston Daily Mail February 12 1968 p 17 Retrieved April 24 2018 via Newspapers com Statement of assumed name PDF Commonwealthh of Kentucky Office of Secretary of State October 14 1981 archived from the original PDF on April 29 2018 retrieved April 20 2018 Shoney s intends to conduct and transact business in the assumed name of Shoney s Restaurant Louisville if you like Danner s you already like Shoney s advertisement The Courier Journal Louisville Kentucky March 5 1986 p D5 Retrieved April 20 2018 via Newspapers com Boyer Mike November 20 1985 Shoney s squaring off with Frisch s in tristate The Cincinnati Enquirer p D1 Retrieved April 21 2018 via Newspapers com a b Haynes v Shoney s 803 F Supp 393 N D Fla March 12 1992 a b c Haynes v Shoney s WL 19915 N D Fla January 25 1993 Crawford J Craig April 5 1989 Shoney s slapped with job bias suit The Orlando Sentinel pp A 1 A 4 Retrieved April 15 2018 via Newspapers com Altman Burt Haynes et al v Shoney s Inc Papers 1959 1997 Florida State University Special Collections amp Archives Retrieved April 15 2018 a b c d Coates Rodney D 2004 Race and Ethnicity Across Time Space and Discipline BRILL p 257 ISBN 9004139915 via Google Books Watkins Steve 2013 The Black O Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire University of Georgia Press p 216 ISBN 9780820344034 via Google Books Kaczor Bill January 26 1993 Judge approves racial discrimination settlement Tallahassee Democrat p 7B Retrieved April 15 2018 via Newspapers com a b Bagli Charles V July 20 1997 Siege at the Neighborhood Salad Bar The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved April 15 2018 Duke Lynne February 5 1993 Shoney s bias settlement sends 105 million signal Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved April 15 2018 Notice of proposed class action settlement and consent decree legal advertisement The Times Munster Indiana November 25 1992 p C5 Retrieved April 15 2018 via Newspapers com Baxter Emme Nelson April 5 1989 Suit charges Shoney s with hostile racist policy towards workers The Tennessean p 6 B Retrieved April 15 2018 via Newspapers com Martin Tim July 1 1993 Shoney s sparks Danner s anger The Tennessean pp 1 A 2 A Retrieved April 15 2018 via Newspapers com Lone Star Funds buys Shoney s restaurant chain Business News The New York Times January 25 2002 p C 1 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 15 2016 Royal Hospitality Acquires Shoney s Press release Business Wire January 2 2007 Retrieved April 28 2018 Lee Wendy November 26 2007 New owner would like to see Shoney s restaurant revived NWTN Today a b c Williams G Chambers June 11 2014 Coming soon to a Shoney s near you beer and wine The Tennessean Nashville Tennessee Archived from the original on April 28 2018 Retrieved April 28 2018 Gentry Connie March 2014 Shoney s Grows its Big Boy Image with New Prototype FSR Magazine Snyder Eric November 18 2016 Nashville based Shoney s unveils new restaurant design bizjournals com Biz Journals Multi Unit Operator Reopens Shoney s Showing Off New Design Franchising com March 27 2019 a b Fox Carrington August 27 2009 Once a beloved brand Shoney s takes aim at a comeback with new look and menu Nashville Scene Marsh Charles 2010 Welcoming Justice God s Movement Toward Beloved Community InterVarsity Press p 58 ISBN 9780830878390 via Google Books Rigsby Sharon June 26 2019 Strawberry pies forever Chill out with classic summer dessert Tallahassee Democrat Shoney s Inns Chain To Become Guesthouse Inns amp Suites Hotel Business ICD Publications May 21 2002 Archived from the original on August 4 2020 Retrieved August 4 2020 Freed Jason January 4 2011 Boomerang to relaunch Shoney s Inns Hotel News Now Retrieved October 4 2016 External links nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shoney s Official website Video Alex Schoenbaum at Shoney s No 1 Parkette in Charleston 1971 at West Virginia State Archives wmv format 0 45 minutes Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shoney 27s amp oldid 1224981397, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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