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- VIPs abstract "VIP's, alternatively written Vip's, is a defunct restaurant chain in the Western United States that operated from 1968 until the late 1980s, based in Salem, Oregon. With more than 50 locations, it was once the largest restaurant chain based in Oregon. It was a Denny's-style restaurant, a type that was commonly known at that time as a "coffee shop" but is now more commonly known as a casual dining restaurant. Most restaurants were located near freeways and were open 24 hours. At its peak, the chain had locations in five states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and northern California.The first VIP's Restaurant was opened in 1968, in Tualatin, Oregon, next to an Interstate 5 freeway interchange. A second restaurant was opened the same year, in Salem, in a location not near a freeway. It was not as profitable as the Tualatin location, and consequently the company's owners decided that future restaurants should be placed along freeways. By 1969, the chain was expanding outside Oregon, with two VIP's under construction in Seattle, and by late 1971 it had grown to 15 restaurants. The company, founded by Keith Andler and Robert Smith, was named VIP's Restaurants, Inc. By 1982, the company was operating 53 VIP's coffee-shop-style restaurants and had also opened four Mexican restaurants that had other names, including La Casa Real and Tortilla Machine. Together, the 57 restaurants had gross sales of more than $41 million in 1981.In 1982, the company sold 35 of its 53 VIP's Restaurants to Denny's Inc. for around $12 million. The offer from Denny's was "too good to pass up", VIPs' owners told The Oregonian newspaper, including a promise that all employees at the affected restaurants would keep their jobs and be absorbed by Denny's. The 1982 sale covered 19 locations in Washington and 16 in Oregon and Northern California.In 1984, VIP's sold 16 restaurants to JB's Restaurants, of Salt Lake City. This sale, of eight locations in Oregon (including the original Tualatin location) and eight in Washington, left the company with just nine restaurants.By 1989, the last VIP's Restaurants had been sold, and the company had branched out into the hotel business. Renamed VIP's Industries Inc., the company continued to own a few Tex-Mex restaurants, using the name La Casa Real and mostly located in the Portland–Vancouver metropolitan area but with ones also in Fife, Washington, and Salem. The entire six-restaurant La Casa Real chain was sold in December 1994 to Chevy's, which was expanding rapidly in the Portland metropolitan area at that time. Earlier, VIP's Industries had opened a chain of hotels, Phoenix Inn (later: Phoenix Inn Suites), which was targeted at business travelers and had six locations in the Portland metropolitan area, including one in Vancouver, Washington. Based in Wilsonville, Oregon, Phoenix Inn was a subsidiary of VIP's Industries. However, in 2006 VIP's sold the hotel chain, which had grown to 13 hotels in Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, to a joint venture whose owners planned to continue operating it under the Phoenix Inn Suites name.".
- VIPs abstract "VIPs is a 2010 Brazilian drama film directed by Toniko Melo, based on the book VIPs - Histórias Reais de um Mentiroso by Mariana Caltabiano, about Marcelo Nascimento Rocha, a criminal who was famous for impersonating several people, among them one of the owners of the Gol airline and one of the leaders of the PCC criminal faction.It is the first film of Toniko Melo alone in the direction. His other film, Som e Fúria (2008), was directed in partnership with Fernando Meirelles, which is one of the producers of VIPs. The film was exhibited at the Festival do Rio and won four awards, including best picture.".
- VIPs distributor Universal_Studios.
- VIPs extinctionYear "1989".
- VIPs fate "closed".
- VIPs foundingYear "1968".
- VIPs industry Restaurant.
- VIPs location Oregon.
- VIPs location Salem,_Oregon.
- VIPs netIncome "984500.0".
- VIPs numberOfEmployees "2500".
- VIPs numberOfLocations "53".
- VIPs producer Fernando_Meirelles.
- VIPs regionServed Western_United_States.
- VIPs revenue "4.13E7".
- VIPs starring Wagner_Moura.
- VIPs wikiPageID "39762829".
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- VIPs wikiPageOutDegree "24".
- VIPs wikiPageOutDegree "50".
- VIPs wikiPageRevisionID "611085921".
- VIPs wikiPageRevisionID "676005142".
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Alsea_(company).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Arieta_Corrêa.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Arizona.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Casual_dining_restaurant.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:1968_establishments_in_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:2010_films.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:2010s_drama_films.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Brazilian_drama_films.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Brazilian_films.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_based_in_Salem,_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_restaurant_chains_in_the_United_States.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_restaurants_based_in_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Films_based_on_books.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pancake_houses.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Privately_held_companies_based_in_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Regional_restaurant_chains_in_the_United_States.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Restaurants_established_in_1968.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Restaurants_in_California.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Restaurants_in_Idaho.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Restaurants_in_Nevada.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Restaurants_in_Washington_(state).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Chain_store.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Chevys_Fresh_Mex.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Controlled-access_highway.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Dennys.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Drama_film.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Fernando_Meirelles.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Festival_do_Rio.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Fife,_Washington.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Focus_Features.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Freeway.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Gol_Transportes_Aéreos.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Gross_sales.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Hotel.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Idaho.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_5.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink JBs_Restaurants.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Joint_venture.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Jorge_DElxc3xada.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink List_of_pancake_houses.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Marisol_Ribeiro.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Mato_Grosso_do_Sul.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Mexican_cuisine.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Nevada.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Northern_California.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Paraná_(state).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Phoenix_Inn.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Phoenix_Inn_Suites.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Portland_metropolitan_area.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Primeiro_Comando_da_Capital.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Recife.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Restaurant.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Restaurant_chain.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Salem,_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Sales_(accounting).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Salt_Lake_City.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Seattle.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Tex-Mex.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink The_Oregonian.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Tualatin,_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Types_of_restaurant.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Universal_Studios.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink VIPS_(restaurant).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Vancouver,_Washington.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Wagner_Moura.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Washington_(state).
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Western_United_States.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLink Wilsonville,_Oregon.
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLinkText "VIP's".
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLinkText "VIPs".
- VIPs wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vip's Restaurants".
- VIPs areaServed "Five states in the Western U.S.".
- VIPs cinematography "Mauro Pinheiro Jr.".
- VIPs country "Brazil".
- VIPs defunct "c. 1989".