Red Barn Restaurant Chain
Jack lee was the man that introduced not only my family to the red barn chain but hundreds of others.
Red barn restaurant chain. The chain s headquarters were in rochester for the final years. They have kept the same menu items and food from when it was the red barn. Recently i received e mail from mike lee the son of jack lee red barn s first employee. And canada began to close when leases expired around 1988.
Red barn s double burger was called the big. But under red barn s last set of owners an investment group red barn restaurants throughout the u s. The shell of the building is still up with a new front of the building and is now an asian restaurant. There was one down in stadium village on the university of minnesota campus.
Shaped like an actual barn red barn restaurant chains weren t hard to spot. The fast food chain which offered the big barney and barnbuster burgers and a self serve salad bar. The red barn restaurant was a fast food restaurant chain founded in 1961 in springfield ohio by don six martin levine and jim kirst in 1963 the small chain was purchased by richard o. Featuring a country theme in restaurants shaped like barns the red barn had specialty sandwiches like the barn buster and big barney.
It took me back to my youth. Loved red barn when i was a kid. The first red barn opened in ohio in 1961 and 10 years later there were approximately 400 barn shaped outlets in 22 states and parts of canada. Question was there ever a red barn eat in restaurant south of palm springs ca likely on the 111 hiway and not the current red barn bar as i just found on google i know this was in the early 1970 s it was quite dusty and desolate in the parking lot out front no big golf course subdivisions yet.
Remembering the red barn restaurant chain. 9 ways restaurants get you to. I missed the food over the years then i discovered the farm. I used to work at the red barn restaurants food chain back in the 1970 s.