dining sports bar founded saint paul minnesota 1984 founder dean vlahos headquarters dallas texas u.s. number of locations 23 area served eastern and midwestern united states products american cuisine website champps.com champps americana commonly known as champps is an american casual dining restaurant chain and sports bar . there are 23 locations across the united states with most of them on the east coast and midwest . history edit champps in livonia michigan now closed champps began in 1984 as a small restaurant in saint paul minnesota and was called concourse 7 . the name of the restaurant was soon changed to champps and they transformed into a sports bar selling beer burgers and sandwiches . the business added big screen televisions to their restaurants for patrons to watch the latest sports games while eating their meal . 1 champps is owned by champps entertainment inc. an affiliate of fox & hound restaurant group . 2 fox & hound s parent company bought champps entertainment in 2007 . 3 on december 15 2013 the restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy . 4 and again on august 10th 2016 references edit about champps . retrieved april 29 2011 . champps entertainment inc. . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved april 29 2011 . fox & hound to buy champps chain sports bar operator files for bankruptcy . wall street journal . 2013 12 16 . retrieved february 20 2014 . 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 champps & oldid 738271117 categories companies based in wichita kansasrestaurants established in 1984restaurant chains in the united statesunited 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 7 september 2016 at 23 26 . 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