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Official All Star Café
Date EstablishedLocation1995New York City
Description
The Official All-Star Cafe was a chain of sports themed restaurants by Planet Hollywood and they recruited Wayne Gretzky, Joe Montana, Shaquille O'Neal, Ken Griffey Jr., Andre Agassi, and Monica Seles to invest in the concept. Restaurants featured "stadium cuisine" and sales of professional sports merchandise and souvenirs with the chain's first location opened on December 18, 1995, at Times Square in New York City. More locations opened the following year in Cancun and at the Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip. With its parent company's first bankruptcy filing of October 11, 1999, one location was closed, leaving nine locations and in February 2000 after exiting bankruptcy, Disney offered to purchase the location at its sports complex. The last Official All Star Cafe, the one at Disney's Wide World of Sports, closed on September 23, 2007.
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Cruising through many states of America, remnants of eateries of the past can still be found. Travel back to a stage in time with me to rekindle the memories of food franchises and the lost cuisine of bygone days. We can remember the presence of these dining experiences in their heyday long ago, but still etched in moments and recollections.
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