Sears In-Store Restaurants

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Does anyone remember the in-store restaurants at Sears..I was only 6 in 1977 when the Florence Mall opened and I remembered it opened with a restaurant by the front doors of Sears. Everyone I have talked to think I am crazy, but I know I remember it there. I don't think it lasted over a few years but does anyone else remember these in Sears?

I don't remember restaurants in Sears stores...interesting though. I do remember a sit-down restaurant in a JC Penney store that opened in my local mall in the mid 70's.

Sears certainly did have in store restaurants. My ex-wife worked at one part time in around 1983 in Ft Wayne, IN. They closed the restaurant up years ago however.

Food was pretty so-so, seems like it was mostly the Sears employees who ate there.

I remember them. Down here in Texas they were called Cattleguard Restaurants. I think the old downtown Sears store still has a restaurant but it is not part of Sears anymore, just leased out space, I haven't been by in a couple of years.

I remember the bulk candy department in Sears, the big bins of candy corn and all that.

When the (now virtually dead) Midland Mall opened in Warwick, RI in the late 60s (maybe 1970?) Sears had a cafeteria that they advertised heavily on the radio. I ate there with my Parents once, at my insistence. It was truly horrid. They closed it within a few years.

Don't recall any restaurant in the Sears on S.W.Military Drive in San Antonio,but that was back in the 1960s. They did have a candy counter where i developed my love of honeycomb candy.
Joske's Las Palmas store did have a lunch counter which was very good. And Woolworth at the old Wonderland Mall,now called CrossRoads Mall on Fredricksburg Road had a lunch counter.

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When I was growing up in the late 50's early 60's the Sears in Visalia, Ca had some kind of hot dog cart/stand open in the parking lot on Saturday. I don't remember if it was just certain Saturday's. I believe the hot dogs were 10 cents and the drinks were a nickel.

20 years ago I worked at the Sears store on Alabama Ave in Southeast Washington DC.They didnt really have a restaurant but they had a "snack bar" that served a pretty respectable "half-smoke",the sausage which is seen almost no place else besides the District.(Its most famous representation is at Ben's Chili Bowl on U street.)
Off topic a little bit,on the top floor of the building was a small employee cafeteria.This place was run by Koreans,and they served up some amazing lunches."Daily specials" would be say,fried chicken,or roast beef,or even baked sea bass with a side for maybe 2.50.But the best thing was that from this dilapidated neighborhood,the view out the window was a perfect unobstructed look at the dome of the Capitol Building.Even to jaded me,it was inspiring.

When the Sears store on Route 22 in Watchung, NJ opened, they had a restaurant/snack bar.