| Eat'n Park Hospitality Group | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Headquarters | Homestead, Pennsylvania |
| Key people | James S. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA in the "Mon Valley" seven miles (11 km southeast of downtown Pittsburgh Broadhurst, Chairman and CEO |
| Industry | Food Services |
| Products | Restaurants |
| Revenue | ▲$303 million USD |
| Website | www.eatnpark.com |
Eat'n Park is a restaurant chain with locations in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers. Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by The franchise began in Pittsburgh's South Hills in 1949, with the business model that customers could drive their car and park at the restaurant, while being waited on by waitresses on rollerskates.
Today, the franchise has nearly 100 locations, and has become an indoor-dining family restaurant with some locations open 24 hours a day.
The franchise's mascot is "Smiley", a walking smiley face, and Eat'n Park is well-known for its trademark Smiley Cookies, which are frosted sugar cookies with smiley faces drawn on them in icing. The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common Seasonal Smiley Cookies are constantly produced, including fish at Easter, black and gold footballs and baseballs to represent the local sports teams, and various other holiday related items.
Eat'n Park restaurants are owned by the Eat'n Park Hospitality Group, a private firm. In the early 21st Century, Eat'n Park's headquarters relocated from Robinson Township to Homestead in The Waterfront shopping and entertainment complex. Robinson Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States approximately 12 miles west of Pittsburgh. Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA in the "Mon Valley" seven miles (11 km southeast of downtown Pittsburgh The Waterfront is a super-regional open air Shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall Due to its huge popularity in urban Pittsburgh, the company has enjoyed many years of profit increases, and they are investing this money in a future expansion into neighboring states.
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Smoking ban
On June 1, 2007, Eat'n Park announced all of its restaurants would go smoke-free. The chain conducted a two-month study of five restaurants and found that customers preferred the change. The decision was made, in part, to Allegheny County's attempts at a county-wide smoking ban, as well as the success of restaurants in Ohio, which passed a statewide smoking ban in December, 2006. . [1]
Competition
Eat'n Park competes with Kings Family Restaurants, another local restaurant chain; Denny's and Bob Evans. Kings Family Restaurants is a chain of restaurants located in the Pennsylvania and Ohio areas Denny's (aka Denny's Diner as appeared on some of the locations' Signage) is the largest full-service diner/family Restaurant chain in the United Robert Evans may refer to Bob Evans (race driver (born 1947 Formula One driver from England Bob Evans (restaurateur (1918&ndash2007
Big Boy Sandwich
Eat'n Park started as a Bob's Big Boy regional franchisee using the Big Boy icon signage and serving a double-burger sandwich, the Big Boy. Big Boy is a restaurant chain started in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale California, as Bob's Big Boy. Eat'n Park's burger used a different sauce -- similar to tartar sauce -- from the chain's standard. The affiliation was terminated in 1976.
The sandwich is now the Superburger -- "Two chargrilled 6 oz. seasoned Black Angus burger patties with melted cheese, pickle slices, shredded lettuce, and Sauce Supreme on a double-decker sesame seed bun. "
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