25 FORGOTTEN Mall Restaurants That No Longer Exist!

[@EricGalza]

Hickory Farms free sample heaven as a kid !

[@TheIkaika777]

I miss Hickory Farms. Although they never were a restaurant.

[@allensaunders449]

Cinnabon still in my mall

[@kayesdigginit1519]

Cinnabon is still everywhere in Texas.

[@pandapopsaz]

Ed Debevic’s was an awesome place with a 50’s theme. Full plates of comfort food, staff dancing on the counter and their unique style of taking your order. We were shocked when they closed in Phoenix years ago and in L.A.. They still have the original location in Chicago and it does very well. My kids have such great memories of going there! I know it’s not on the list, but I thought it was worth mentioning. 😊

[@SpyderSuasponte]

They are still here in Chicago. Nothing has changed.

[@Gamble661]

Loved Orange Julius, their cheese hot dogs were awesome. Cinnabon is still around at a few malls in Massachusetts. Also remember York Steak House fondly! There was a stand-alone one at the local mall and in High School it was a great and affordable option on date night. The first Howard Johnson's restaurant was in Quincy, MA near where I grew up, great comfort food at great prices. It was right on the highway south of Boston; nothing there but an open field now. If you weren't around back then you'd never know it had ever been there. The Woolworth's in our mall in the 70's had a great cafeteria.

[@pookhahare]

Cinnabon is still in our mall in the south. I never associated Howard Johnson with malls. And rax here were free standing not mall.

[@NeutronDance]

York Steakhouse was great!

[@napaeldoradoks6232]

chi-chis is coming back. the son of one of the founders is restarting the chain

[@thomaskotch4770]

Im looking forward to That!

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

It's not going to work. There are so many Mexican restaurants these days.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Chevys is basically the same thing and they closed most of their locations.

[@Dr.JeremyDunks]

​@user-or6yn8pm3c Chevy's salsa was so good though.

[@kayesdigginit1519]

I wish them well .

[@jenniferwang3489]

The Morrison's video at 6:15 I believe is not the restaurant but rather the UK grocery store.

[@Dios67]

Oes

[@timmiller661]

We had a year-round Hickory Farms at our local mall for years and I could never understand how they stayed in business, there would be lines out the door in December but it was empty for the other 11 months. I think eventually they got wise because they closed the permanent stores and would come back as pop-up kiosks for the holidays.

[@shanemontgomery1358]

Worked at Farrell’s as a high schooler and loved it!

[@xarophti]

19:06 That's Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Enterprise) in the Magic Pan commercial

[@anstapl]

I'm 35 and I still remember our Lum's. The one in our town operated well into the 90s. I was obsessed with their spaghetti and still judge all other spaghettis to how closely they taste like Lums 😂

[@EDKguy]

That was George Costanza catching the blonde on the Hot Sam's commercial! It's good to see him get the girl after the loss of his fiancee.

[@glassdiamond2185]

Cantstandya. Lol.

[@3Storms]

I didn't know Hickory Farms was still around. We've been getting Swiss Colony paper catalogs in the mail every so often, and we order our meat-and-cheese gift sets from them. We've been addicted to these types of gift sets since the 1980s. In fact one of those is all I want for Christmas this year.

[@TheCkent100]

I used to work right across from a Swiss Colony. They had the best sandwiches. I wish I knew what made them taste so good.

[@jamielumm9583]

Milton Berle hawking for steamed hot dogs is some next level innuendo.

[@Johnnymacdee]

Milton had a kielbasa.

[@kayesdigginit1519]

Innuendo 🤔

[@thejourney1369]

Morrison’s is where Mom got her idea for her cucumber and carrot salad. We were eating there one day and she had gotten a salad that had cucumbers, carrots, onions, and peppers in it. She said that she could make it and use her vinegar and oil dressing that she had created. She did and it was a hit. Mom has been gone 14 years and I make her salad and it’s still a hit.

[@JohnALong-nl2hj]

Hickory Farms was a seasonal store in malls. I remember them and Orange Julius in the early 1980s.

[@thomaskotch4770]

Ours was year round. I used to get free samples when I was a kid

[@ralphschannel6650]

They are still around

[@serenatwilite4005]

They weren't just seasonal stores in the 70's, they were permanent stores all year round.

[@ambero9528]

They were permanent stores until after 2002, now just seasonal

[@JDoors]

Why am I just now hearing Hickory Farms passed out free samples?!?

[@JustAThought155]

This show IS stirring up some old memories. All the folks who lived in cold weather winter states would go to the mall, especially on a Saturday, to shop and then dine before combating the congested highways or ride the crowded public transportation system’s back home, in my east coast neighborhood. Also, in my area, if you did not do the mall, or eat at the mall after shopping, you would stop at a local White Castles to buy multiple bags of burgers for dinner on a Saturday night! Crazy memories! Wow! We had a Woolworth’s counter where you would eat after you purchase your .25 cent Chuck Taylor’s Converse sneakers. We had a Blimpies, in the late 70s. That was an after school treat we would frequent in one of their independent stores in New Jersey. And Cinnabon was a place we would go to in Manhattan’s Penn Station after sprinting through the station and realizing we were early for the train. We earned that doughy treat!

[@NeutronDance]

we had a York Steakhouse in our local mall. I loved going there through the cafeteria style line, with tray.

[@msoda8516]

I loved the show mad men I had no idea burger chef was a real restaurant

[@serenatwilite4005]

York Steak House had a great marketing gimmick that you didn't have to leave a tip, that would be a great way for a restaurant to fight the competition nowadays. That would make them popular in a hurry.

[@bitofeverything1111]

In our mall in Vt, we had ginos pizza and sbarros.. right next to the arcade

[@lorijackson3905]

Went with our family to Howard Johnsons for all you could eat. Clam strip platters were awesome 😋

[@mgelliott1]

Ha ha. Thought it was just me. I FONDLY remember all you can eat clam strips and french fries at Howard Johnsons on Fridays in the 70s as a kid. I probably haven't had a clam strip (had clams, had oysters, just not strips ) since then.

[@JohnALong-nl2hj]

@@lorijackson3905 I thought that name was a hotel

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@JohnALong-nl2hj It was both back in the 70's, their hotels always included a restaurant making it a popular place to stay. No need to go looking for a place to eat when you arrived tired from driving. People who lived nearby went there just to eat, too. I remember for a while you could buy their corn toasties in the grocery store frozen section to eat at home. I also think I remember their clam strips were available in the frozen section in the grocery store during the 1980's for awhile.

[@BlackArroToons]

Great summary of classic restaurants and shops. I didn't know the Red Barn was a chain, but remember one from the 1980s. Thanks!

[@rumannkoch4864]

18:24 that's Eve Plumb, who played Jan on TV's The Brady Bunch.

[@MrSpike320]

I remember going to a Burger Chef and getting a Star Wars poster and drinking glass when I was a kid when the first movie came out in '77.

[@mchenrynick]

I miss Chi-Chi's Restaurants. You can still get their Tortilla Chips & salsa in the grocery store, but everything else has disappeared.

[@bwtawny]

They had a seafood quesadilla that was incredible.

[@mchenrynick]

@@bwtawny Their fried ice cream dessert was amazing!

[@antonbruce1241]

There's a Bob's Big Boy here in Burbank. On Friday nights, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get a seat there, due to the classic car show in the parking lot. There's also a Bob's in Norco. The food in both is still excellent!

[@someguy9778]

This guy needs to do more research and update this video. It's wrong.

[@pb51-d8f]

There’s one in Norco also.

[@TheCkent100]

There is one in Northridge as well.

[@zrrifle.]

I remember the Woolworth's cafe/diner restaurants. At the mall we had right across from it was Walgreen's restaurant, which was more like a small Denny's.

[@ralphschannel6650]

They had the best Patty Melts

[@sonyak8416]

We still have a Woolworth’s in downtown Bakersfield Ca. Temporarily closed to remodel/repurpose store but leave will reopen original lunch counter open.

[@JV-bq8jz]

Does anyone remember "Carrows" We had one in Northern Cal. Best Turkey Clubs, Patty Melts..best House salad dressing.

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

The Woolworth's had the best hotdogs for me as a young kid from the 70s.

[@kenweidemoyer2221]

Good Story and thanks for sharing.

[@rob46711]

I have fond memories of walking around the mall with friends on a Friday or Saturday night as a teen back in the mid to late 80s. We would always get a pretzel from Auntie Anne's and wash it down with a drink from Orange Julius.

[@carolynpurser7469]

Loved and miss Farrel's. A lot of fun fond memories.

[@rumannkoch4864]

04:38 this Lums was connected to a movie theater. How do I know? I have seen this picture many times, bigger versions, and recognize the car and the square molding. This was the Lums closest to my house here in Fort Lauderdale. Both buildings were torn down, and there is now a Caribbean Breeze restaurant.

[@G.S.Holland]

Hickory Farms was the best place in the mall. We went there every time.

[@serenatwilite4005]

I remember them always smelling good when you walked in and it was always fun to get some free samples.

[@tylerbuckley4661]

I went in for the samples of sausages and cheese

[@CrockettsCabin]

We had a Blimpie in Stuart, FL until about three years ago. They were WAY better than Subway.

Orange Julius, Coddington Mall, Santa Rosa, CA Early 1970s. First microwave oven I ever saw was there. They had a commercial Amana RadarRange that appeared able to safely transport U²³⁸; no glass, 3" thick walls with a small interior compared to it's outer dimensions.

[@LanceoftheNoe]

My little southern town had a burger chef, but I'd never seen them anywhere else. My mom loved the RANCHO meal.

[@devildoll9929]

I wish Orange Julius packaged their drinks for sale in supermarkets. Our local OJ shut down nearly a decade ago. I still miss it.

[@serenatwilite4005]

The produce departments in some grocery stores sell an orange drink mix packet next to the oranges that you whip up in a blender with fresh oranges. It tastes just like Orange Julius. I have also seen recipes here on KZbin to make your own Orange Julius at home.

[@devildoll9929]

@@serenatwilite4005 I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know. I'll give it a try.

[@doctorhino8736]

There are two blimpies within 15 miles of me, you freaked me out for a second there. It's not gone

[@nascarmadman]

I wouldn't classify Hickory Farms as a restaurant. Yes, they sold food, but it wasn't a sit down to eat place. Neither Bob's, HoJo's, Brown Derby nor Farrell's was hardly a Mall restaurant - probably close to half of these really. I worked at a Swensen's back in the 80's when I was in college. The OCD tactics (we had to weigh each scoop and if it was over 4oz, we had to 'unscoop' some of it) used to serve the ice cream was too much for me.

[@serenatwilite4005]

A mall I used to go to in St. Petersburg, FL had a Farrell's attached to it and you entered it from inside the mall. After it went out of business, it became a Ruby Tuesday's. I loved both restaurants and miss them.

[@mchenrynick]

Showbiz Pizza was a direct competitor to Chuck E Cheese, then got bought out by them...

[@cindim.martinez9476]

I always crave a Pina colada from Orange Julius. I miss it.

[@garywarren-gh8os]

I remember Marie Callender's ice cream parlor Rancho Cucamonga California.

[@G.S.Holland]

I remember her restaurants in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. Great food ❤

[@brianog5267]

I would give anything for grabbing a plastic tray and walk along the line at York Steak house… the hamburger “steak” ground sirloin with mushroom gravy and steak fries as well as a baked potato with a vegetable and a dessert… all at a price that a family could afford…. And not to mention the bread rolls!!!!😢😢😢😢

[@adamguymon7096]

You forgot Lots-a-Hot-a Pizza. It was in the Cross Roads Plaza mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. They served their pizzas in triangular pizza boxes. In the 1990s, I remember eating there.

[@BonJody]

I've eaten at the original Bob's Big Boy a few times always loved it

[@aquari.fairiie]

I worked at Orange Julius/DQ as a teen, in the mall lol

[@OwlgorhythmAU]

As a kid, I loved the alligator shaped cups at Rax. Pretty much the only thing I remember about that chain.

[@raysfox53]

I managed a Hot Sam when it was bought by Mrs Field's, then went to Pretzel Time shortly after just for Pretzel Time to be bought by Mrs. Field's. I left right after that.

[@Youngstown529]

This is a terrible video. We still have an Orange Julius in our mall. Many of these restaurants (Howard Johnson's, Rax, Burger Chef) were never inside a mall, but instead were usually stand alone buildings and the thumbnail (Hickory Farms) was never a restaurant. This video should be removed for lame research and mostly wrong info.

[@teecee3866]

Agreed. KZbin needs fact checkers

[@sbel177]

There's a few stand alone Orange Juliuses (sp?). I had one at Crossgates Mall in Albany last week. It wasn't as good as I remembered though.

[@jstoeck784]

We still have a Cinnabon.

[@MikeBaxter-n6m]

I grew up in Morrisville PA we had a Red Barn closed in the 80s but the building still stands as a dry cleaner

[@parsifal40002]

Check your data! Cinnabon is still in business. I just got a dozen cinnamon rolls at a mall !

[@timmiller661]

Our Red Barn became a showroom for aluminum siding and awnings, I think more recently it's a used car place. As weird as this sounds, my dad insisted that the Red Barn closed here because it was midway between our three high schools, and because of the intense rivalry in basketball would be the scene of brawls after the games. It sounds like a dad story but I do remember basketball being a big enough of a deal for fights and riots.

[@pookhahare]

There is still a red barn building that has been many other things still on charlotte pike in Nashville. Great burgers but also not at mall.

[@JV-bq8jz]

​​@@pookhahareours is now a carwash. But still looks like a barn Big Barnies🍔 (Near exact Big Mac) 59 cents. Yum. Had my🎉🎉 childhood Birthday Party there.. Fun, yummy place.

[@c.l.j.jardell5811]

Red. Barn became. A lumber store. Here. lol.

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

I also remember Wag's restaurants in some malls attached to Walgreens.

[@shasha4104]

Almost passed out when Blimpie closed. Luckily Jersey Mike's came along.

[@usascorpio]

Capital District in upstate NY we had multiple HoJo's. I went to the last 2 for many years, Lake Placid, and Lake George which closed for good a few years ago. I need those Clams !! (Ironically we still have two A&W's, Lake George, and several miles from Lake Placid)

[@thomaskotch4770]

Clam strips were the best

[@terrib627]

You left off one of the really obscure ones: Walgreen's restaurants, AKA Wag's, in malls. We had at least one in Louisville KY. I couldn't get my parents to eat there very often, but I found it very amusing as a child to dine in a restaurant attached to a drug store.

[@DJones21743]

2:02 I had an Orange Julius from Dairy Queen at the mall in Las Vegas a few years back.

[@kristinlambert8811]

I remember furrs cafeteria restaurants in malls

[@masudashizue777]

I remember Lum's in Honolulu near our dormitory. It's been gone for 40 years.

[@andrewcummings5023]

I Still Remember Dining At Furrs & Lubys & Wyatts Cafeterias please Do Videos Them

[@c.l.j.jardell5811]

Wyatt’s. So. Missed. By the. Whole. City. I still look for the recipe. For their eggplant dressing. Building is now. Empty again was. Used as a. Drs. Offices. Sure. Miss it !!’n.

[@judyb1539]

Swenson's had the BEST Sourdough Cheeseburgers!!!!

[@BS.Wickman]

Showbiz pizzas first location was in Antioch mall in Gladstone Missouri (suburb of Kansas City) and went there often as a kid during the summers since my mom worked at a funeral home a short distance from the mall

[@TruthIllinois815]

6 Rax Roast Beef stores still exist. One in Joliet Illinois about 50 miles from me.

[@tylerbuckley4661]

Orange Julius is still around

[@judyb1539]

Chi-Chi's had the best tortilla chips!!!

[@Allerka]

There are a lot of Cinnabons in Michigan. That's like the one restaurant that still exists from this video.

[@diapernh]

Just ate at York Steak House tonight.

[@johnpinckney4979]

Must be in Columbus, Ohio...

[@ruthpayne534]

Cinnabon is still in malls.

[@douglasdixon524]

4:34, I'm from Miami originally and as a kid I couldn't get enough of Lum's fried shrimp.

[@loisfromohio3109]

Loved orange julius

[@kyriejohnson4711]

Cinnabon still here in Maryland in malls. That hasn't went anywhere.

[@someguy9778]

lol...Exactly, in every mall here in Los Angeles. This guy must be in Canada or something.

[@JustAThought155]

Our mall had a German eatery called ZumZum’s, I think that was the name. That “Morrison’s Turkey Take-Out” flyer is for the Nashville store; look at the listed restaurant locations.

[@johnpinckney4979]

I remember ZumZum's!

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I didn't know Hickory Farms had restaurants. I only knew the stores with sausage and cheese. I hated the Orange Julius orange juice.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining.😋. Excellent still-motion photography pictures 📷/drawings. Enabling viewers 👀 to better understand what/whom the orator is describing 😉. Never visited those establishments or viewed those (📺 TV ) commercials😭. Wishing viewers 👀 a " Safe/Healthy/Prosperous 🌈🎉💵 (2025).😎

[@nunyabizznizz7326]

bob's big boy was never in a mall, they were stand alone restaurant

[@pookhahare]

There is a dq orange juliius at opry mills mall. Yes orange julius is posted.

[@Tratios]

I see Cinnabon at every single mall across multiple states, about as common as Auntie Anne

[@carolinebeck1573]

Magic Pan!!!

[@obviouslytom]

There is still a Blimpie's a few miles from my house. Its owned by a gas station and still makes good sandwiches.

[@c.l.j.jardell5811]

There was a great restraint. At our mall served. Seafood. On menu. Can’t remember the. Name. We ate there every weekend. Oh. Wow. It was pick. A Dilley. Yummy. Good. And desserts.

[@chirpie11]

Also Swiss Colony as a rival to Hickory Farms. Also, Cinnabon isn’t fully gone. As some have said, these are not all “mall restaurants”.

[@it1988a]

I loved Lums fried clams. Went with my mom and her mom. Both are now next to God now.

[@donniejohnson7439]

I was eating a strawberry sundae at the Woolworths lunch counter win a crazy old lady bit me on the shoulder 1979 Vivid memory , strange woman Fantastic sundae

[@SpunkyCowboy]

A quick search shows 48 locations where I can purchase an Orange Julius near downtown Vancouver BC.

[@Dr.JeremyDunks]

Garfield's. It was like a TGIF or a Bennigans.

[@RoboEyeglass101]

Hickory Farms was not a restaurant. It was more like a speciality grocery that specialized in meats and cheeses.

[@wolfsmith2865]

There's a Bob's Big Boy built into the Terrible's gas station in Indian Springs, Nevada, off of Highway 95 and across the road from Creech AFB.

[@user-x256]

I love America! 🇺🇸❤️

[@chemrebel]

My very first job was at a Bresler's, which was indeed inside my local mall, 1991 - 1992, my junior year in HS. Right across from the JCPenney. The older guy was a franchise owner of the location and was an absolute cheapskate. All my friends constantly bugged me to give them free ice cream.

[@cmaden78]

Omg i have DREAMS ABOUT the Hickory Farms samples!❤ And there's a Mattress Barn in the old Red Barn, but it may be gone by now 😢

[@nitto420s]

Cool video really takes you back I used to love Red Barn and Howard Johnson's growing up. Didn't mention Friendly's restaurant? Or Tombstone Pizza, or JT stutters, or Mr Hero, or GD Ritzy's, Ponderosa. Still good video 👍

[@jorgemiguel1040]

Did the car behind the police tape hit the Farrell's. A KCAL news van is in the back ground.

[@chirpie11]

Where are Sizzler & Ground Round?

[@xarophti]

Ground Round was THE affordable date spot in the 80s

[@maggiegarber246]

Our Rax restaurant was a place that my support group visited in the late 80’s. There’s an Arby’s in their location now.

[@cmaden78]

We never had a Rax in Ft. Lauderdale, but I'd get it in Orlando all the time with my cousins. I never thought of it at the time, but we must have terrified fast food workers( we looked like the Loud Family😂..4 adults 6 of us cousins and always at least 2 or 3 kids friends tagging along..so basically 10-17 people all at once! And half of us hated condiments! My Aunt Sandy and my mom knew what EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ATE AT MULTIPLE PLACES😨😂🕶️✨🖤

[@c.l.j.jardell5811]

There was a great restraint. At our mall served. Seafood. On menu. Can’t remember the. Name. We ate there every weekend.

[@Me1973OH]

Harvest House? Duffs?

[@pookhahare]

Some doubtful research.

[@SOUTHBAYGENETICS]

wrong about Orange Julius, many of them exist and are exist inside malls today

[@kyriejohnson4711]

@@SOUTHBAYGENETICS yeah I remember seeing one recently.

[@misskittymcg630]

Why didnt you mention Shoneys taking over the Big Boy?

[@napaeldoradoks6232]

actually shoneys is a bobs big boy. They were the largest bobs franchiser and allowed to use the name shoneys. and they were able to carry on after most bobs closed

[@ljbeertourist]

Different parts of the country had different rights holders to the Big Boy name: Frisch's, Azar's, Elbe's are others I remember along with those two.

[@someguy9778]

Uh...CoCo's took over Bobs Big boy here in California anyway.

[@pookhahare]

​@ljbeertourist yes this should been mentioned. Ate both at frisch's and At shoneys, neither associated with malls.

[@DarkSeraph351]

Most of these places had nothing to do with malls

[@vriana1921]

Some really good ones in there 😢 But I think the title saying that they don't exist anymore is an exaggeration since you even admitted that a lot of them are still around, we have a cinnabon in our Mall downtown Indianapolis. 🤷🏻‍♀️