Smith opened " Ozzie's " restaurant and sports bar in 1988, started a youth sports academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999, and partnered with David Slay to open a restaurant in the early 2000s.

In Denmark — a country, like Britain, with a long tradition of brewing — a number of pubs have opened which eschew " theming ", and which instead focus on the business of providing carefully conditioned beer, often independent of any particular brewery or chain, in an environment which would not be unfamiliar to a British pub-goer.

When they gathered around a blanket on which pinole ( a ground corn flour ) had been placed for them, Johnson and his men opened fire on the Chihenne with rifles and a concealed cannon loaded with scrap iron, glass, and a length of chain ).

Isaacs ' first restaurant opened in London in 1896 serving fish and chips, bread and butter, and tea for nine pence, and its popularity ensured a rapid expansion of the chain.

The first chain convenience store in the United States was opened in Dallas, Texas in 1927 by the Southland Ice Company, which eventually became 7-Eleven, the largest convenience store chain.

In the late 1990s, Jewel purchased a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, food chain and opened fifteen Jewel-Osco combo stores in the Milwaukee metro area, some of which employed urban designs.

In 1973, the chain opened an experimental Jewel Grand Bazaar, on the southwest side of Chicago ; a store that encompassed an entire city block at the northwest corner of 54th Street and Pulaski Road.

The first store opened in 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota and was named “ Pay-Less ” ( different from the drug chain Payless founded later in the century ), and was managed by George Hilden.

At roughly the same time as Kroc was conceiving what eventually became McDonald's Corporation, two Miami, Florida businessmen, James McLamore and David Edgerton, opened a franchise of the predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King.

Originally opened in 1953, the founders and owners of the chain, Kieth J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns, opened their first stores around a piece of equipment known as the Insta-Broiler.

The land has now been drawn up for commercial use with a petrol filling station, Travelodge hotel and pub chain pub / restaurant, opened in late 2008.

The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has strikingly changed its character, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the City of Paris ( which has called this trend " banalisation ") initially decided in 2007 to prohibit the Swedish clothing chain H & M from opening a store on the Avenue ; however, a large H & M store opened two years later at 88 Champs-Élysées.

Trinity County did not have a chain store or restaurant until 1999, when Burger King, Movie Gallery ( closed ), Longs Drugs ( now CVS / pharmacy ), and Subway opened for business.

Pueblo opened stores in St. Thomas and St. Croix, quickly becoming a popular supermarket chain.

In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores.

The newly opened ' Belvedere ' on the High Street is the UK's first Polish pub run by a UK chain.

The second store in the chain was opened in Cave City, Kentucky, in nearby Barren County.

Movie Gallery, which was the second largest video rental chain in the United States, opened its first store in Dothan in 1985 and maintained its headquarters there.

National retail and food chain stores have opened locations in the area, with significant growth along the U. S. 301 corridor.

Into the 2000s the area still lagged behind Eastern and Southern Jefferson County, with one of its few remaining large retail centers, the Dillard's on Dixie Highway, which had opened in 1956, closing in 2007 due to unusually slow sales at that location ( the chain itself was profitable in the Louisville region ).

Magruder's, a small local chain of grocery stores, renovated the former Giant and opened on November 7, 2007.

Skaggs retired from Safeway in 1932 and in 1934 opened the first self-service drugstore in the United States in Tacoma, Washington.

Together, they opened a self-service department store in Beverly, Massachusetts, offering apparel and homewares at alluringly low prices.

The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders, an inventor and entrepreneur.

Lord Sainsbury joined Sainsbury's in 1950 ( the year the first self-service store opened in Croydon ), working in the grocery department.

In 1932, having opened his first shops, Cohen travelled to the United States to review their self-service supermarkets.

In February 1948, New Zealand's first self-service grocery store was opened in Onehunga by Phil Barker ( the son of the founder of the group ) and Ray McGregor.

In 1963 the Viking Superstore, which had been converted from three smaller shops into one self-service supermarket, was opened in Second Avenue.

The Régie des alcools du Québec ( RAQ ) was created in 1961 in order to promote business growth, which opened its first self-service branch soon afterward.

The company began when Gérard Mulliez opened his first self-service shop in Roubaix in the district of Hauts-Champs-pronounced the same as " Auchan ".

In 1948, Von's opened a pioneering store which offered self-service, pre-packaged produce, meat, and deli items.

In 1970, Sbarro opened its first mall-based restaurant in Brooklyn's Kings Plaza Shopping Center, marking the beginning of the modern Sbarro concept: Italian food in an open kitchen that allowed for fast self-service.

When the first Big Bear store opened in 1933, it marked the beginning of self-service supermarketing in the Midwest.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1862, widened 1959 ) opened the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.

Indiana Wesleyan's $ 22 million Chapel, which opened in January 2010, seats 3, 800 and is one of the largest auditoriums in the Midwest.

Eastland Center, one of the first outdoor malls in the Midwest, opened in 1957.

Mont Vernon's general history follows that of many towns in this region: Originally settled for agriculture, its farms were hard hit after the Civil War when railroads opened up better farming land in the Midwest.

As the vast agricultural expanses of the American Midwest opened up, the local wheat industry went into decline, beginning in the decade prior to the Civil War.

The first Sam's Club was opened in Midwest City on April 7, 1983.

The historic Hotel Breakers opened in 1905 as one of the largest in the Midwest ; it had 600 guest rooms and a cafe that could seat 400 guests.

The origin of Midwest Airlines can be traced back to 1948, when the Kimberly-Clark Corporation opened its corporate flight department and began providing air transportation for company executives and engineers between the company's Neenah, Wisconsin headquarters, and company owned paper mills.

In 2009, the Freedom opened against the Midwest Sliders of Ypsilanti at home on May 20.

The team plays in the Midwest League and their home park is Dow Diamond, which opened in April 2007.

It is one of three major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the others being the federal United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, four miles ( 6 km ) to the south, and the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, which opened on 5 October 2010.

The canal opened the Hudson Valley and New York City to commerce with the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

A year later, The Wave, the only authentic tsunami wave pool in the Midwest at the time, opened to rave reviews.

A Midwest Flagship opened in August 2010 at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio.

To remedy this problem, Chandler and his wife Marilyn, along with friend Jim Kramer, opened a shop called Midwest Four Wheel Drive and Performance Center in Ferguson, Missouri ( later moving to Hazelwood, Missouri ) which remains as Bigfoot's headquarters to this day.

The film opened widely in 244 theaters in the South and Midwest on June 20.

In addition, the military's medium security Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, located southwest of the new USDB, opened in 2010.

As the Midwest opened up to settlement, many farmers headed west in search of better farming opportunities.

The first Big Bear Store opened on February 15, 1934 on West Lane Avenue in Columbus, Ohio in what was once a dance hall, a roller skating rink, and finally a tan bark ring for horse shows, the first Big Bear store opened-the beginning of self service supermarketing in the Midwest.