Red Barn Restaurant Chain

Kearns operated as red barn system with the offices moving briefly to dayton ohio and in august 1964 to fort lauderdale florida.

Red barn restaurant chain. I missed the food over the years then i discovered the farm. Find a red barn near you or see all red barn locations. I used to work at the red barn restaurants food chain back in the 1970 s.

They have kept the same menu items and food from when it was the red barn. Jack lee was the man that introduced not only my family to the red barn chain but hundreds of others. Remembering the red barn restaurant chain.

Mike was kind enough to give a true account of the beginning of the red barn chain. Red barn s double burger was called the big. With about a dozen or so locations over the decade and a half the national chain was represented in western new york red barn was one of buffalo s more popular fast food joints in the 1970s.

It was a huge cavernous place surrounded by a large parking lot full of station wagons that brought families in to eat. The first red barn opened in ohio in 1961 and 10 years later there were approximately 400 barn shaped outlets in 22 states and parts of canada. Recently i received e mail from mike lee the son of jack lee red barn s first employee.

It took me back to my youth. The chain s headquarters were in rochester for the final years. When i was a kid in sacramento california there was a family restaurant named ken s red barn but it was not a fast food place.

Been closed for years now.

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