no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2009 kettle restaurants type private industry food founded 1968 headquarters nacogdoches texas website kettle kettle restaurants are located in 21 locations throughout five u.s. states . they offer breakfast lunch and dinner . 1 the first location was opened by founder harry chambers sr. and his brother danny in 1968 in nacogdoches texas . he gained experience managing toddle house restaurants in baton rouge while obtaining an engineering degree at lsu . soon they opened additional locations . the chain began offering franchise locations some years later and reached a peak of over 265 locations combined total of company owned franchisee owned restaurants . these were concentrated in the southern half of the us from florida west to new mexico . the brothers sold the houston based chain and 119 locations predominately located in texas oklahoma and louisiana to private equity investors stephen portis and eric porten in september 1995 . this move took the company from a publicly registered company to a private one . locations can usually be found near major highways and are open 24 hours a day . 1 they are located in texas oklahoma new mexico arizona and tennessee . 2 references edit a b kettle about us dead link kettle store locator dead link retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kettle restaurants & oldid 742414452 categories restaurants in texaseconomy of the southwestern united statesregional restaurant chains in the united statesrestaurants established in 19681968 establishments in texashidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016orphaned articles from february 2009all orphaned 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 3 october 2016 at 15 30 . 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