EAT'N PARK

'Eat'n Park' is a restaurant chain with locations in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia. 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.
Eat'n Park is well-known for its trademark Smiley Cookies.
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. 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

Competition

External Links

References

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.^[1]

Competition

Eat'n Park competes with Kings Family Restaurants, another local restaurant chain; Denny's and Bob Evans. In the greater Pittsburgh area, Eat'n Park also competes with places such as Applebee's and Max & Erma's.

External Links

Eat'n Park's official Web site

References

1. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07152/790749-85.stm