As you are driving to work or commuting on the train
have you ever pasted a restaurant and wondered...
I wonder how the food is there... or
have you ever wondered where that name came from...
Is it simply the owner's name or something else!?
Here are a few I wanted to share with you today before
the weekend!
Jimmy Johns - Is it 2 peoples names?
One named James and the other John?
Did they discuss if it should be Jimmy & Johns or Johnny Jim's
or some other combination of their name?
Jimmy Johns simply came from the founder's first and
middle name. ----- Jimmy John Liautaud
P.F. Changs - What does the P.F. stand for? Ping and Foo?
Pan-seared and Fried or just Pan Fried? hmmm
The P & F stand for Paul Fleming who partnered with a
Chinese chef with the last name Chiang but they dropped
the letter "I" thinking it would be difficult to pronounce
so P.F. Changs stands for Paul Fleming Changs.
Denny's - Was it someone named Denny..?... nope!
but good obvious guess. Denny's was originally Danny's donuts.
Owner Harold Butler and his wife moved closer to Harold's wife's
uncle Danny (who owned Danny's coffee shops) and at the time
Harold didn't have any money to create the now Denny's so
his wife's uncle helped him with running a Danny's Coffee shop
that they later just changed the name from Danny's to Denny's
for corporate franchising reasons. I wonder why they just didn't
call it Harold's? Interesting huh?!
One last one for you today is:
Red Robin - Red Robin was first called Sam's Tavern. hmmm.
The owner- Sam sang in a barbershop quartet and their go-to
song was "When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin along"
He enjoyed that song SO much that he later changed the place
to Sam's Red Robin. Two decades later, Gerry Kingen bought
the restaurant and as he expanded it- he decided to drop the Sam's
and the rest is history as simply: Red Robin.
The history of how things started is always fascinating to me.
Zestfully, Let's Cultivate Food......... day 8 of 31 days
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