By Daniel Kline | The Street
The big food court in the sky, or maybe it’s a downtown entertainment district, features a lot of restaurants that once had a big following. You may not remember them all, but some brands that were once huge, fell into irrelevancy and then went away.
Howard Johnson’s, for example, used to be a staple of a road trip. If you couldn’t find a HoJo’s perhaps you would stop at a Big Boy, another chain that was once prominent.
In addition, sometimes there are restaurant chains that maybe were never that well-liked but were still a big deal. Fashion Cafe and the Official All-Star Cafe were meant to reproduce the magic of the Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood but they never caught on.