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SALT LAKE CITY — Are you craving cheese fries? Do you miss placing your order from a phone at your table? If so, you're in luck because the Training Table restaurants are coming back.
The popular franchise announced Friday — exactly 45 years since it began operations in Midvale on Oct. 7, 1977 — that it's making a comeback, "with some new twists," according to the announcement.
It's a follow-up to some cryptic messages posted on the Training Table's website and Instagram page in July, that said, "Tasty things coming soon …"
Restaurant locations will be announced in coming months, Friday's news release states, with Training Table food trucks making their debut as well. The company plans to continue featuring phones as part of the customer experience, both at the food trucks and the full-scale restaurant locations, the news release states.
In the meantime, the Training Table's signature Ultimate Dipping Sauce and Ultimate Hickory sauce are available for purchase on the franchise's website.
The Training Table closed in 2016 amid an ongoing lawsuit between the owners, a father-and-daughter duo Kent and Stephanie Chard, the Deseret News previously reported.
The CEO and president of the Training Table restaurant, Stephanie Chard, originally filed the lawsuit against her father, Kent Chard, who founded the restaurant in 1977. She sought damages for the loss of business opportunities.
Kent Chard filed a countersuit saying his daughter caused him "extreme mental distress, humiliation, anguish and emotional and physical injuries, as well as economic losses."
But the two appear to have worked out their differences. "We're excited to move forward, starting with bringing back a part of the legacy that people loved and missed most — our dipping sauce and cheese fries," Stephanie Chard said in Friday's news release.
Kent Chard added that, with Friday being the franchise's anniversary, it was "an ideal time to announce our intentions to serve the community once more and bring people together again to enjoy great food and make new memories at the Training Table."
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