Food

Sixty Vines Corporate Office

Sixty Vines was first introduced in Plano, Texas, by Front Burner Restaurants in 2016. This popular restaurant chain now has 6 locations, with plans for at least 6 more in the next 5 years.

The restaurant chain is best known for wine served in kegs, which the company states is better for the environment (not to mention less expensive) than glass bottles.

Approximately 60 percent of the company’s customers are Millenials, who seem to like the idea of not buying expensive bottles of wine that they won’t finish or don’t like.

In October 2022, the company announced that it would open a new location in Washington, taking over the building vacated by another restaurant that closed during the pandemic.

Sixty Vines frequently features a minimum of 60 wines on tap, many of them from local wineries.

The company encourages its patrons to live more sustainably with a lineup of gift items intended for reuse or that have been made from recycled materials.

Sixty Vines maintains a corporate office in Plano, Texas.

Cugino Forno Pizzeria Corporate Office

Cugino Forno was founded in 2017 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The word Cugino means cousins, which is appropriate considering that this pizzeria chain was founded by three cousins who emigrated to the US from Turkey.

After spending a year touring Europe, the trio fell in love with the taste of oven-fired pizza in Italy. Forno means oven so while Cugino Forno might roughly translate to Oven Cousins, the idea behind it is clear.

Beginning with a single restaurant in Greensboro, the company has since expanded to 6 locations around North Carolina and a 7th in Maryland.

The company specializes in Neopolitano, wood-fired pizzas, in ovens which weigh 7,000 pounds and are handcrafted from sand, with a wide variety of toppings.

In June 2022, the company was forced to repay $300,000 in back wages to 63 employees after tips were collected and then reused to pay other employees. Management says that it was a miscalculation of employee wages.

Cugino Forno was listed as the Best Pizza in North Carolina in a Yelp survey in February 2022.

Cugino Forno Pizzeria maintains a corporate office in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Tucker’s Restaurant Corporate Office

Erica and Hale Cole Tucker founded Tucker’s restaurant in 2014. This pair of entrepreneurs wanted to serve good food to great people.

The Tucker’s believe that employees aren’t workers, but they refer to them as tribe members and tribe leaders.

From a single location, Tucker’s has grown to 6 restaurants around the state, with more in the works.

Tucker’s serves breakfast and lunch only, often to packed crowds. While many restaurants are having difficulty finding and retaining staff, Tucker’s has not found this to be an issue.

The restaurant chain is known for offering free meals to veterans on their day, along with their wives.

In 2019, Hale and Erica Tucker were awarded the Small Business Person of the Year.

Tucker’s Restaurant maintains a corporate office in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Polar Cave Ice Cream Corporate Office

Mark Lawrence founded Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour in 1995. Known for its generous portion sizes and unique flavors, such as Mashpee Mud, this small ice cream shop rakes in not only positive reviews but is frequently on many “Best Ice Cream” lists.

The “can’t miss” bubblegum pink and white location is popular with both locals and tourists.

Polar Cave not only serves walk-up customers but also provides drive-up service, where customers can wait in their air-conditioned cars for service.

Despite being a popular destination, the company has had trouble hiring new employees. At first, CEO and owner Mark Lawrence believed it was due to Covid, but even in 2022, offering $20 an hour, Lawrence still has problems hiring.

Due to the staffing shortage, customers have waited 30-60 minutes to be served, causing some customers to berate and belittle what are usually high-school or college-aged staffers.

Harassment of staff became so ugly in 2020 that Lawrence closed the ice cream parlour for a while.

Polar Cave offers gluten-free and vegan waffle cones, along with a variety of flavors, including some recipes that Lawrence claims are 100 years old.

Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour maintains a corporate office in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

George Webb Restaurants Corporate Office

George Webb founded his first lunch counter on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The entire family worked at the business, with George, his wife Evelyn, and their three sons, Jim, Tom and Bob, all performing various tasks in the restaurant.

George’s son Jim suggested to his father that he should take over one of the restaurant locations in 1953. George agreed, making Jim’s location the first franchise. Other franchises followed in 1957.

Today, the company has 31 locations, all of them in Wisconsin.

The company is famous for serving its entire menu any time of the day or night. George Webb is also known for having two clocks in each location. Stories vary as to why this is with some people saying that Webb installed one clock at an angle so those who were waiting on the subway could see the time. Others say that, at one time, being open 24 hours a day was illegal so Webb set these two clocks side by side, with one of them running one minute slower than the other.

In February 2022, a restaurant employee was shot in the face by 4 women who were angry over a food order.

Because of George Webb’s policy of staying open 24 hours a day, combined with the restaurants’ reasonably low prices on food and drink, the chain has become a notorious refuge for homeless adults and juveniles. George Webb Restaurants have displayed a “No Loitering” sign in every restaurant and placed a two-dollar minimum per person and a 20-minute time limit for a visit, although this rule is not strictly enforced.

George Webb Restaurants maintains a corporate office in Waukesha, Wisconsin.