the food franchisee . for other uses see flying star . the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources flying star restaurant news newspapers books scholar jstor free images july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message flying star type private industry restaurants founded albuquerque new mexico usa 1987 headquarters albuquerque new mexico products cakes coffee drinks ice creams & other dinner items website www.flyingstarcafe.com flying star cafe on juan tabo in albuquerque flying star cafe is a privately owned and operated cafe restaurant chain in albuquerque new mexico . contents 1 history 2 locations 3 references 4 external links history edit flying star cafe first location was opened in 1987 on central avenue in the nob hill area of albuquerque near the unm campus . at the time it was named double rainbow as it was a franchisee of san francisco ice cream chain of the same name . 1 the two businesses entered into an agreement regarding the common use of the name but eventually the albuquerque location wanted to branch out into food restaurants and the agreement was revisited ; as a result double rainbow in albuquerque changed their name to flying star cafe . 2 when looking for a name they went over 300 different choices and ultimately the name flying star came from a chinese firecracker magazine . as double rainbow they opened up two more locations . one is located in the northeast heights of albuquerque and was dubbed the juan tabo location it opened in 1995 . the third location opened in 2000 and it was located near the uptown area of albuquerque . it is known as the menaul location . when they decided to open their fourth location this was when the name change came about in 2001 . the fourth location was opened up in the north rio grande valley where they decided to add a horse hitching post to allowed customers to bring their horses to come and eat at flying star cafe . this location also had a large petio which was a place for their patrons to bring their pets to eat alongside in the fresh air . the fifth location opened in 2005 in the downtown albuquerque area . this building now offered yet another way to dine with flying star cafe and that was with a conference room . in 2006 another location opened in corrales and in 2007 another northeast heights location opened off of paseo del norte . when 2008 came around it was time to spread past the city limits and they opened their first location in bernalillo . the following year they opened yet another store in the railyard district of santa fe new mexico . since 1987 flying star has expanded to seven locations in albuquerque with four more locations in bernalillo corrales and santa fe . 3 the downtown albuquerque location is housed in the former southern union gas company building which is listed on the national register of historic places . 4 alongside with flying star cafe the sister company of satellite coffee was also thriving as well . locations edit location name opened closed flying star cafe nob hill 1987 as double rainbow flying star cafe juan tabo 1995 as double rainbow flying star cafe menaul 2000 as double rainbow flying star cafe rio grande 2001 flying star cafe downtown 2005 october 23 2015 5 flying star cafe corrales 2006 flying star cafe paseo del norte 2007 flying star cafe bernalillo 2008 january 30 2015 6 flying star cafe santa fe railyard 2009 january 30 2015 references edit flying food star duke city fix flying star locations lane charlotte balcomb january 6 2005 . flying star remodels historic building . albuquerque journal . nm . staff abqjournal news . updated flying star to close downtown . www.abqjournal.com . retrieved 2016 08 03 . writers richard metcalf and mark oswald albuquerque journal staff . updated flying star files for chapter 11 shuts sf bernalillo restaurants . www.abqjournal.com . retrieved 2016 08 03 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flying star restaurant & oldid 732749714 categories fast casual restaurantscoffee houses of the united statesrestaurants in albuquerque new mexicorestaurants established in 1987hidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from july 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 august 2016 at 00 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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