Frisch's Mainliner Fairfax

The Frisch's Restaurant chain has been in the fast food business since the early 1939'..Their first restaurant was in Fairfax,Ohio,and they named it... more

by Paul Lindner

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Frisch's Mainliner Fairfax

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Paul Lindner

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The Frisch's Restaurant chain has been in the fast food business since the early 1939'..Their first restaurant was in Fairfax,Ohio,and they named it "THE MAINLINER".Since then,Frisch's has expanded to the States of Ohio,Kentucky,Indiana and beyond.And yes the Mainliner is still in business,and is a ICON in the fast food business.The ninth of ten children, Dave Frisch followed in the footsteps of his father, Samuel Frisch, who in 1905 opened the Frisch Café in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1915, Samuel opened Frisch’s Stag Lunch in Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati. Dave withdrew from school as a teenager to work full-time in his father’s restaurant. He eventually returned to high school, but before he graduated, his father died, leaving Dave to run the restaurant with his brothers.
In the 1930s Dave went out on his own, and by 1939 he opened the Mainliner restaurant, Cincinnati’s first year-round drive-in named after the first tri-motor passenger airplane. Today, some 78 years later, a replica of the airplane still adorns the restaurant’s sign.

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December 2nd, 2017