Dallas-Fort Worth is a hotbed for replicable restaurants.
Sarah BlaskovichThere was once a time in Dallas when “there were no chain restaurants,” recalled 92-year-old Gene Dunston, who opened his first carhop restaurant in 1955.
“So I put in a salad bar,” Dunston said. He was especially proud of that salad bar in the past decade, when Steak and Ale had gone extinct but Dunston’s stayed open., it’s time to look back on some of the best-known restaurant chains that were born and bred in Dallas, Fort Worth and its suburbs.This photo of El Chico in Inwood Village was taken in 1952. The Inwood Theater marquee was already up, and it remains there today.
Dickey’s is the most prolific restaurant chain on this list, a surprising fact since it took 53 years for the company to become a franchise. During its first few decades, Dickey’s was a tiny barbecue joint on Henderson Avenue, at the crux of what’s now Central Expressway. Dickey’s continues to be a family-owned business, once run by founder Travis Dickey’s son and now run by his grandson and granddaughter-in-law.
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