s restaurant information established 1939 1939 current owner s jerry fat food type chinese city sacramento california other information price range moderate website fatsrestaurants.com frank fat s restaurant is a chinese cuisine restaurant in sacramento california founded in 1939 by a chinese immigrant who entered the united states in 1919 . the original restaurant is one of five now owned by the family . 1 2 frank fat s celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014 . 3 frank fat s is a 2013 winner of a james beard foundation award as an american classic . 4 history edit frank fat emigrated to san francisco in 1919 at age 16 with neither money nor identification . he was later able to impress a man he just met to lend him 2000 to open a restaurant . 5 references edit an american success story . los angeles times . 2009 08 31 . retrieved 2010 09 06 . walker greg september 2009 . get to know ... collin fat . style roseville granite bay rocklin . frank fat s celebrating 75 years . retrieved 2014 10 14 . america s classic frank fat s . james beard foundation . 2013 05 06 . retrieved 2013 06 01 . an american success story 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 frank fat % 27s restaurant & oldid 696132098 categories restaurants in californiachinese restaurantsrestaurants established in 19391939 establishments in californiaunited states restaurant stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediacalifornia articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinatesall 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 21 december 2015 at 03 24 . 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