Zehnder's

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Zehnder's
Zehnder's Chicken Restaurant, Frankenmuth, Michigan, 2015-01-11 01.jpg
Zehnder's
Restaurant information
Established1856
Food typeChicken, seafood, steak, desserts
Street address730 South Main Street
CityFrankenmuth
CountySaginaw
StateMichigan
Postal/ZIP Code48734
CountryUnited States
Seating capacity1,500

Zehnder's is a restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States. It has seating for 1,500 people and features all-you-can-eat family-style chicken dinners, seafood, steaks, fresh baked goods and European desserts. Every year Zehnder's serves almost a million people. [1] In the 1980s, it was one of the ten largest restaurants in the United States. [2]

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History

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Zehnder's in Spring 2011
The Bavarian Inn Restaurant, also owned by the Zehnder family Bavarian Inn Restaurant, Frankenmuth, Michigan, 2015-01-11 02.jpg
The Bavarian Inn Restaurant, also owned by the Zehnder family

Zehnder's was originally built as the Exchange Hotel by Henry Reichle in 1856. Reichle ran the hotel for twenty years, after which it was sold and operated by several different people. In 1927, William Zehnder Sr. purchased the hotel remodeling the building, including redesigning its facade to resemble Mount Vernon. After World War II, the business grew rapidly. [3]

In March 1947, the business was turned over to Zehnder's children. The business became a corporation, and in the 1950s the Zehnders bought Fischer's Hotel located across the street, renaming it the Bavarian Inn in 1959. In 1955, William Zehnder Jr. (manager of the Bavarian Inn) and Edwin Zehnder (manager of Zehnder's Restaurant) purchased the interests of Zehnder's, Inc. from their brothers and sister. [1] They re-decorated the restaurant in a Bavarian theme after visiting Bavaria on vacation, and the annual Frankenmuth Bavarian Festival began during their week-long grand re-opening celebration. [2]

John Zehnder, the executive chef and food and beverage manager at Zehnder's, received the 2011 Hermann G. Rusch Chef's Achievement Award from the American Culinary Federation. [4] [5]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Ashlee, Laura R. (2005). Traveling through time: a guide to Michigan's historical markers. Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press. p. 382. ISBN   0-472-03066-3.
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