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2009 Year in Review: Anniversaries

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

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