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Old 07-28-2015, 03:53 PM
 
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Johnny Bench's HOME PLATE restaurant was on Colerain Avenue at Springdale Road in the Northgate Mall complex... after its closing TGIF moved in...

Pete Rose's restaurants were on Northland Blvd near Kemper Road in Springdale, Ohio with his other restaurant on Glenway Avenue in Western Hills.

Frisch's owned Prime and Wine outright. it was never reopened after a major fire destroyed its building at Montgomery and Kenwood Roads.
TGI Fridays is now closed. There is a Chedders and a potbelly sandwich shop plus and empty TGIF
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Old 07-28-2015, 05:04 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Strange how a "Friday's" closes and nobody notices...then again, that's why they keep closing, YA THINK???
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Old 07-28-2015, 06:17 PM
 
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Strange how a "Friday's" closes and nobody notices...then again, that's why they keep closing, YA THINK???
Not really much of a fan myself, but they're actually replacing the old restaurant with a new one just a bit north in the Stone Creek Center: TGI Fridays and Richies should open this month in Colerain Township
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Old 07-28-2015, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA
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It's bizarre how the "replacement" for Northgate is THAT CLOSE to the original. At least with Tri-County you have to put in some miles before reaching Bridgewater Crossing (or whatever focus-group-approved generic name it is.)

Far more significant is the planned opening of another Richie's on Colerain near Galbraith - to the south just a tad. Up until now (not counting a location in Madisonville which "didn't make it") the only Richie's were in places where White folks feared to tread - or drive past with windows down and vehicle doors unlocked:

Vine St & Woolper Ave in Clifton (better known as "the corner where you used to go left to get to the zoo before that new parking lot on Vine opened.")
Somewhere on Linn St in the West End
Yarmouth Ave & Reading Rd in Bond Hill

I'm kinda surprised they didn't open at or near the Kemper/Winton intersection, but maybe that's in the cards. (And maybe they have...) Like any savvy company, Richie's knows who they want to draw as their primary demographic: Black folks short on money and appreciative of GOOD fast food. (That their fish n' chips Fridays bring paler people through the doors in notable numbers is only the icing on the cake.) To even the most "armchair" of sociologists - like me - this is a definite signal that enough "people of color" are now in the Colerain corridor for Richie's to stake a claim. Very interesting. And from Mt Airy to Northbrook, no one can argue this.

Naturally, the Enquirer only made mention of the new Richie's in passing after lavishing attention on the "new & improved" TGI Friday's with their garage-door-size catastrophe. Nowhere was it mentioned in the headline or subtitle either. So typical. (sigh)
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Old 07-29-2015, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Fairfield of the Ohio
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Johnny Bench's was a Prime & Wine for a short time before Fridays moved in.
Actually it was a Prime & Wine for more years that it was Johnny Bench's.
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Old 08-24-2015, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Fairfield of the Ohio
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Ok, here's a long shot. My mum and I were trying to remember the name of an old mom and pop restaurant that was somewhere in Indiana. No more than an hour from Cinci. It was in an old, old steeple church. Only opened on the weekend for dinner and served family style. They brought big platters of fried chicken, ham, pork chops and all kinds of sides in big bowls that you literally passed up and down the long tables. This would have been in the mid 70s to the early 80s.
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Old 08-24-2015, 10:41 PM
 
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Was it the Sherman House?
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Old 08-28-2015, 08:58 AM
 
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Was it the Sherman House?
No. This place was in the sticks. It was literally a very, very old wooden church building.
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Old 08-28-2015, 01:39 PM
 
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Was it the Sherman House?

By the way, the Sherman House closed earlier this year.
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Old 09-01-2015, 06:29 PM
 
Location: New Mexico via Ohio via Indiana
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How about Gemma's, the restaurant in the hotel across the street from St Rita's School for the Deaf off of southbound I-75? Excellent maitre'd and food and service, though that very nice restaurant (with bands all week in the lounge) was out of place in that nondescript motel.

And the old Twenty Mile House in Loveland, an old stagecoach inn.
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