Posted on 06/16/2021 11:23:47 AM PDT by mylife
Ohio is reportedly down to one last Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips restaurant with the Garfield Heights location closing its doors last Saturday.
Owner Ben Vittoria said the decision to shutter the seafood house was not an easy one, but that, like many other restaurants in the area, he recently had trouble finding enough employees.
The location has been open since 1978, with Vittoria taking over the franchise in 2001. And he still owns the last Ohio location in Cuyahoga Falls, telling FOX 8 he plans to dedicate all of his resources to keeping that one running. Vittoria said Arthur Treacher’s stands apart from other fast food restaurants in that all their food is made in-house, rather than from frozen.
There are reportedly less than 10 Arthur Treacher’s restaurants left across the country, drastically down from when there were once hundreds. The restaurant got its start in Columbus back in 1969.
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I remember being very little in the later 1970s and going to Arthur Treacher’s in The Bronx, NY with my parent and grand parents once a month.
Frostop is gone too
Arthur Treachers left my town 33 years ago. Wouldn’t mind a British chain coming here like Harry Ramsden’s.
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Treacher performs a delightful song and dance with Shirley Temple in The Little Princess along with providing some very funny moments. Younger audiences may recall him as the older London bobbie who brings the two children home near the beginning of the film Mary Poppins.
I am aware.
100%
Thanks, Didn't know that
Treacher In 1939
Treacher and Merv Griffin on Griffin's CBS talk show, 1969
Oh, then I won’t mention anything about your hair!
I didn’t know there were any left in existence. (Now if you REALLY want me to get sad, mention the old Burger Chef chain...)
thanks!
My first love was an A&W carhop. I was a fry cook, flipping burgers, steaming dog buns and mixing the root beer supply in a refrigerated barrel in the basement (scraped the wall for slushies before slushies were a thing). What a different world back then...
I never liked fish or seafood of any kind, other than tuna in a tuna salad sandwich, but years ago, there was an Arthur Treacher’s on Commercial Drive in the suburbs of Utica, New York. That was eventually replaced by a Long John Silver’s, which was eventually replaced by a Little Caesar’s. Anybody who lives in this area is out of luck if they want fish and chips. They’d have to drive at least a half-hour to find any. Same thing with B-B-Q joints. There’s nothing here.
Arthur and Kramer would rock!
I was a roving Manager for Arthur Treachers back in the late seventies, we had 6 stores in Cincinnati area. I remember the Chicken Sandwich had Cole Slaw on it, and I liked it with BBQ sauce. I was also a Manager for LJS before that, and hands down LJS was a much better product to me.
Little Caesar’s nom nom *puke*
Arthurica and Kramerica! It can’t fail!
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