1970 as carrows hickory chip restaurant founder david nancarrow parent zensho website company website carrows is a chain of casual dining restaurants that serve breakfast and lunch dinner in the western portion of the united states . as of september 26 2013 the chain operates 54 restaurants in california and 1 in arizona . 1 carrows was started by david g. nancarrow in santa clara california in 1970 as the carrows hickory chip restaurant . carrows and its sister chain coco s bakery restaurants were purchased by advantica restaurant group in 1996 . in 2002 they were acquired by catalina restaurant group inc. 2 in california carrows coco s bakery competes directly with marie callender s and bakers square restaurants . in 2006 catalina restaurant group was bought by japanese company zensho co. ltd. which has operated coco s japan for many years . 3 as of 2016 the chain has 13 locations according to the company s website . references edit carrows restaurants location lists carrows restaurants about us catalina restaurant group announces merger with zensho america corporation external links edit company website this us based restaurant or restaurant chain article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title carrows & oldid 711565239 categories economy of the southwestern united statesregional restaurant chains in the united statesfast food chains of the united statesrestaurants established in 1970united states restaurant stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 march 2016 at 17 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view