Village Inn
12701 Whitewater Dr, Ste 200, Minnetonka, MN 55343-4165
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Approximately 95-100% of the Village Inn restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Village Inn is a Minnetonka, Minnesota casual/family restaurant franchisor headquartered at 12701 Whitewater Dr and known for all-day breakfast and pies. Co-founders Merton “Andy” Anderson and Jim Mola opened the first Village Inn Pancake House in Denver in 1958, serving made-from-scratch buttermilk pancakes to locals and vacationers, and an advertisement in The Wall Street Journal recruited the first franchisee, who opened in 1961. The chain later grew as part of Denver-based Vicorp Restaurants, passed to American Blue Ribbon Holdings after a 2008 bankruptcy, was acquired by BBQ Holdings in 2021 following another reorganization, and moved with that company to Canadian franchisor MTY Food Group in 2022. BBQ Holdings is its parent company and MTY Food Group is the ultimate parent. Restaurants are a mix of franchised and company-operated units. The footprint is concentrated in the Rocky Mountain region, the Midwest and the Southwest, with a presence in the Southeast. Restaurants serve breakfast, lunch and dinner with pancakes, omelets, skillets, sandwiches and comfort-food entrees, plus signature cream and fruit pies. Typical restaurants seat roughly 150 guests in about 3,500 square feet.
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