The Applebee's chain was started by Bill and T. J. Palmer who opened their first restaurant, T. J. Applebee ’ s Rx for Edibles & Elixirs, in Decatur, Georgia, on November 19, 1980.

He later opened the first Hesburger in 1980 in Turku, which became the first element of the first fast food restaurant chain in Finland.

Yellow Pack was a brand of generic groceries, first launched in March 1980 by Fine Fare, a British regional supermarket chain ultimately owned by the Weston family, whose extensive interests include the UK's Associated British Foods, Loblaws Companies in North America, and a range of upmarket retailers such as Selfridges, Brown Thomas and Fortnum & Mason.

On May 2, 1980, a federal appeals court found in favor of Domino's Pizza. The rights to own, operate and franchise branches of the chain in Brazil, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Principality of Monaco are currently owned by Domino's Pizza Enterprises, having been sold off by the parent company between 1993 and 2007.

The year 1980 saw the acquisition of J. B. Ivey Co., a department store chain with roots in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida, The Union Co. in Columbus, Ohio, the Lipman's stores in Portland, Oregon and several Liberty House stores in Washington state.

Mujirushi ( no-brand ) Ryōhin ( quality goods ) began as a product brand of the supermarket chain The Seiyu, Ltd. in December 1980.

Irving Levy served as president until his death in 1980 at age 86, guiding Gottschalks ' growth into a chain of six department stores and over a dozen specialty boutiques with over $ 80 million in annual sales.

The chain was bought by Minnesota-based SuperValu in 1980 with five stores in the Twin Cities.

In 1980, Interstate Properties took a major stake in the ailing chain, seeking to convert its real estate to more profitable ventures.

Other additions have been the etching Man at a desk, wearing a chain with a cross in 1980 and, very recently, the little Bald-headed man in profile and the fourth state of The flight into Egypt.

This command relationship proved unsatisfactory, because in 1980, before the 1986 Goldwater – Nichols Act, there was significant separation within the chain of command of the separate Armed Services and no single channel of communication through which the RDF commander could communicate directly to the United States Secretary of Defense on matters specifically relating to the RDF.

Ruben Rodriguez purchased it in 1980, and turned it into a chain, whose parent company Santa Barbara Restaurant Group was acquired by CKE in 2001.

In 1980 Viacom bought the Sonderling chain, and the station adopted a country music format as " Kick " WKHK.

In 1928, the Grand Lake became part of the Fox Theaters chain, and in total, changed ownership five times until 1980.

During the period between 1976 and 1980, small, locally-owned businesses are forced to close as aggressive chain stores move in and rust-belt factories are shut down due to the fall in consumer demand.

It was an independent company until being absorbed by the Times Mirror chain around 1980, then Tribune Corporation acquired Times-Mirror.

These different routes to market fell away after the core chain grew in 1980 with the purchase of the Harlequin Records chain.

In 1980, the company purchased the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain and acquired Host International in 1982.

In 1979 Frederick & Nelson acquired and renamed the Lipman's chain, and in 1980 Mervyn's took over the space originally occupied by Liberty House.

From 1977 to 1980, he released three more albums in Turkey, partly consisting of compilations of older singles, namely Sakla Samanı Gelir Zamanı ( 1977 ), Yeni Bir Gün ( 1979 ) and 20.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

Commercial Album ( 1980 ) consisted of 40 songs, each consisting of a verse and a chorus and lasting one minute.

In the fall of 1980, after all original SNL cast members departed from the show, Radner starred opposite Sam Waterston in the Jean Kerr play, Lunch Hour, as a pair whose spouses are having an affair, and in response invent one of their own, consisting of trysts on their lunch hour.

From 1946 to 1980 the United States maintained a dedicated Aerospace Defense Command, consisting primarily of dedicated interceptors.

In 1980 Sony introduced the " ProFeel " line of prosumer component televisions, consisting of a range of Trinitron monitors that could be connected to standardized tuners.

Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band.

In 1980, Perkins co-wrote and featured in the radio sketch show Radio Active, revised and adapted from the early Oxford Revue shows, and initially based around the comedy parody group The Hee Bee Gee Bees, consisting of Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens.

# A repair mission, consisting of Leonid Kizim, Oleg Makarov, and Gennady Strekalov ( Soyuz T-3 ) worked on the space station for 12 days starting on 27 November 1980.

Jones is also the last Australian driver to win the Australian Grand Prix, winning the 1980 event at Calder Park Raceway, having lapped the field consisting mostly of Formula 5000 cars while he was driving his Formula One Championship winning Williams FW07B.

In 1980, Cho Chikun visited South Korea after winning the Meijin title and the two began a friendship match consisting of two games.

In 1985, the band released the EP Freeways, consisting of multiple ( and multi-lingual ) remixes of one of their earliest efforts, Ivan Doroschuk and Jeremie Arrobas's 1980 " Freeways ".

* 1980 – A four-man team consisting of Polish climbers Voytek Kurtyka, Ludwik Wiczyczynski, Frenchman René Ghilini and Scotsman Alex MacIntyre climb the east face, topping out at 7, 500 m on the northeast ridge.

An anime adaptation ( ニルスのふしぎな旅 Nirusu no Fushigi na Tabi ) consisting of fifty-two 25-minute episodes was broadcast on NHK from January 8, 1980 — March 17, 1981.

The Lion and Sun was succeeded by a new symbol, designed by Hamid Nadimi and officially approved by Ayatollah Khomeini on 9 May 1980, consisting of four crescents and a line.

The Beat, consisting of Dave Wakeling ( vocals, guitar ), Ranking Roger ( vocals ), Andy Cox ( guitar ), David Steele ( bass ), Everett Morton ( drums ), and Saxa ( saxophone ), released three studio albums in the early 1980s: I Just Can't Stop It ( 1980 ), Wha ' ppen?

In a press release dated Dec. 10, 1980, the postal service announced a new plate numbering system that would, except in cases where more than four designs appear on a pane, " establish a plate block as consisting of four stamps regardless of the number of inks used or the press used to print the stamps.

In March 1980, Newkirk and Pacheco decided to form a group to educate the American public about these ideas, at first consisting of what Newkirk called " five people in a basement.

In 1980 artists were invited to submit designs and a jury was assembled consisting of experts in the fields of art and design.

Their subsequent disco releases, such as " Do It Good " (# 79 in 1979 ) from Another Taste, and " Rescue Me " ( 1980 ) failed to attract attention, and by 1980 the group had become a duo consisting of Johnson and Payne.

GRS 80, or Geodetic Reference System 1980, is a geodetic reference system consisting of a global reference ellipsoid and a gravity field model.

The stadium's maximum capacity after the 1980 – 81 renovation was 41, 000, consisting of a single-decked horseshoe grandstand filled in with wooden bleachers from the original 1960 expansion.

The world's first wind farm – consisting of 20 wind turbines rated at 30 kilowatts each – was installed on the shoulder of Crotched Mountain in southern New Hampshire in December, 1980.

Voile / Toile-Toile / Voile, a piece consisting of boat races followed by museum displays of sail-canvasses, was originally created for a regatta on the Wannsee, Berlin, in 1975 and later produced in Geneva ( 1979 ), Lucerne ( 1980 ), Villeneuve-d ’ Ascq ( 1983 ), Lyon-Villeurbanne ( 1998 ), Tel Aviv ( 1999 ), Sevilla ( 2004 ), and Grasmere ( 2005 ).