White Coffee Pot Family Inns was a privately held Baltimore, Maryland, restaurant chain and coffeeshop that first did business in 1929 according to Polk's Baltimore City Directory. During the 1960s and 1970s, they opened a chain of fast-food restaurants White Coffee Pot, Jr. Major competitors included national chains Gino's (which sold Kentucky Fried Chicken), Denny's and Friendly's.
The last White Coffee Pot restaurant closed in Brooklyn Park, Maryland, in 1993.[1] The company shared ownership with the Horn and Horn Smorgasbord Cafeteria chain,[2] and some locations became Cactus Willie's all-you-can-eat restaurants.[3]
See also
edit- Little Tavern, another Baltimore-based restaurant
- List of chicken restaurants
References
edit- ^ Mirabella, Lorraine (June 16, 1993). "Popular eatery's era comes to an end White Coffee Pot to close Sunday". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on November 13, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ Hurley, Mark A. "A Theatre named 'Stanley'". monumentalcity.net. Adam Paul. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
- ^ Murray, Shanon D. (March 31, 1998). "Horn & Horn chain orders plateful of changes, including a new name 4 eateries redesigned as Cactus Willie's". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
In 1955, Katz's family business, the White Coffee Pot Family Inns Inc., bought the downtown restaurant