100 YEARS
Frank Grisanti Restaurants, Memphis, Tenn.
Schuler’s Restaurant & Pub, Marshall, Mich.
90 YEARS
A&W, Louisville, Ky.
Lamb’s Grill Café, Salt Lake City
Regas Restaurant, Knoxville, Tenn.
80 YEARS
5 Point Café, Seattle
75 YEARS
Carvel, Atlanta
Caspers Famous Hot Dogs, Lafayette, Calif.
Original Farmers Market, Los Angeles
Steak n Shake, Indianapolis
60 YEARS
Eat ‘n Park, Homestead, Pa.
Golden Ox Steak House, Kansas City, Kan.
Nepenthe, Big Sur, Calif.
50 YEARS
Brasserie, New York
Four Seasons, New York
Little Caesars, Detroit
45 YEARS
Arby’s, Atlanta
Benihana, Miami
Blimpie, Scottsdale, Ariz.
O’Neal’s Restaurant, New York
40 YEARS
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Lebanon, Tenn.
The Old Spaghetti Factory, Portland, Ore.
Perry’s on Union Street, San Francisco
35 YEARS
Quaker Steak & Lube, Sharon, Pa.
30 YEARS
Madison Park Café, Seattle
Mimi’s Café, Tustin, Calif.
Mr. B’s Bistro, New Orleans
Mr. Chow, New York
Pok-e-Jo’s Smokehouse, Austin, Texas
The Cheesecake Factory, Calabasas Hills, Calif.
25 YEARS
Christini’s, Orlando, Fla.
Croce’s Restaurant and Jazz Bar, San Diego
Culver’s, Prairie du Sac, Wis.
Gotham Bar and Grill, New York
Great New Hampshire Restaurants, Bedford, N.H.
Pico’s Mex-Mex Restaurant, Houston
Rockin’ Baja, San Diego
Sweet Lorraine’s, Southfield, Mich.
The River Room, Georgetown, S.C.
20 YEARS
Acquerello, San Francisco
Fazoli’s, Lexington, Ky.
McAlister’s Deli, Ridgeland, Miss.
Olives, Charlestown, Mass.
Silver Diner, Rockville, Md.
Wahoo’s Fish Taco, Santa Ana, Calif.
“The toughest piece is sharpening the saw and making one deep cut through the fat, through some of the muscle, but careful enough not to touch the bone.”—John Mountford, CEO of Sam Seltzer’s Steakhouse on reorganizing
