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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Gino's is back

Everybody goes to Gino's/ Gino's is the place to go...

Back before McDonald's took over half the US hamburger-chain business, regional knockoffs like Philadelphia's Gino's stuffed local guts. The chain, owned by ex-Baltimore Colts Gino Marchetti and Alan Ameche, spread to more than 500 stores before Host Marriott Corp. bought it 30 years ago and turned them into Roy Rogers ("Wanna Trigger-burger?").

But Gino's is back, reports Jason Nark in the Daily News here. Marchetti, of West Chester, is helping Tom Romano, once a Gino's boss, later head of Saladworks, at the new chain. The first stores, in King of Prussia, Bensalem and suburban Baltimore, aren't taking on the cheap-and-fast chains; they're more casual-dining sit-down joints, like Five Guys. 
Posted by Joseph N. DiStefano @ 10:44 AM  Permalink | 2 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:34 AM, 01/17/2012
    I've been to Gino's in KOP. Horrible location, but pretty decent food. I still like Five Guys a bit better, but Gino's definitely has a more interesting menu of choices..
    — KingHoser
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:09 PM, 01/17/2012
    Marriott sounds just like Bain Capital.
    — Wilhelm Von Humboldt


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Joseph N. DiStefano writes this blog to feed his PhillyDeals column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joe has been a member of Bloomberg LP’s New York Finance Team, wrote the book “Comcasted,” taught writing at St. Joseph’s University, and studied economics and history at Penn. Reach Joe at 215-854-5194 and JoeD@phillynews.com
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