Which restaurant chain was founded first, Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti or Valentino's?
Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, most of them within the U.S. state of West Virginia. The company was founded by Kenney Grant in 1961. Many locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World although the Gino's brand is exclusive to West Virginia. There is one located in Ohio, while there are stand alone Tudor's locations in eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio and southwest Virginia. Gino's serves pizza, spaghetti, sandwiches, and more. Company headquarters are located in Huntington, West Virginia and Nitro, West Virginia.
Shoney's Shoney’s is a privately held restaurant chain headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Operating primarily in the South, Shoney's also has restaurants in the Midwest and Lower Mid-Atlantic states. Founder Alex Schoenbaum became a licensee of Big Boy Restaurants (originally known as Parkette) in 1952. Two years later the name was changed to Shoney's, and aggressive subfranchising followed. Thirty years later, having outgrown its Big Boy territory, Shoney's dropped the Big Boy affiliation.