is chain of restaurants located in arizona utah new mexico idaho wyoming and montana . jb s family restaurants was founded in 1961 and was sold from santa barbara restaurant group to lynn whiteford of lbw investments in march 2000 . jb s operates 50 restaurants of which twenty four are company operated and 26 are franchised or licensed . the jb s chain also contains the small chain of galaxy diners including a location on route 66 in flagstaff arizona . in 1984 jb s purchased 16 restaurants from the salem oregon based vip s chain 1 not to be confused with a walmart mexico owned restaurant chain using that name in mexico . at that time jb s restaurants was based in salt lake city and had 80 restaurants not counting these new acquisitions . 1 on march 9 2011 jb s family restaurants filed for bankruptcy . 2 3 references edit a b vip s officials announce sale of restaurants . the register guard . eugene oregon . august 18 1984 . p. 9b . retrieved june 17 2013 . associated press march 19 2011 . jb s restaurant chain files for chapter 11 . salt lake city ksl news . retrieved june 26 2013 . trivalleycentral.com external links edit official 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 jb % 27s restaurants & oldid 743654245 categories companies based in salt lake cityrestaurant chains in the united statesrestaurants established in 1961big boy restaurantsunited 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 10 october 2016 at 15 52 . 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