Kettle Restaurants
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| Private | |
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Headquarters | Nacogdoches, Texas |
| Website | Kettle |
Kettle Restaurants are located in 21 locations throughout five U.S. states. They offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner.[1]
The first location was opened by founder Harry Chambers, Sr. and his brother, Danny, in 1968 in Nacogdoches, Texas. He gained experience managing Toddle House restaurants in Baton Rouge while obtaining an engineering degree at LSU. Soon they opened additional locations. The chain began offering franchise locations some years later and reached a peak of over 265 locations (combined total of company owned + franchisee owned restaurants). These were concentrated in the southern half of the US, from Florida west to New Mexico. The brothers sold the Houston-based chain and 119 locations (predominately located in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana) to private equity investors Stephen Portis and Eric Porten in September 1995. This move took the company from a publicly registered company to a private one.
Locations can usually be found near major highways and are open 24 hours a day.[1] They are located in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Tennessee.[2]