Earls (restaurant chain)

Infobox_Company
company_name = Earls Restaurants Ltd
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Casual Dining Done Right
foundation = 1982
founder = Leroy Earl Fuller
location_city = North Vancouver, BC
location_country = Canada
key_people = Leroy Earl Fuller, Jeff Fuller
industry = Restaurants
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homepage = [http://www.earls.ca www.earls.ca]

Earls is a casual dining restaurant chain that operates in Western Canada as well as Arizona and Colorado in the United States, and recently in Mississauga, Ontario. Earls has approximately 50 locations and their head office in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is known for its casual but trendy atmosphere, and emphasis on fusion cuisine. Fact|date=September 2007

Founding

Earls was founded in 1982 and the first restaurant was located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Leroy Earl Fuller (b.1930), the founder, was an experienced restaurateur with over twenty successful and failed restaurants to his name. He opened his first restaurant in Sunburst, Montana, United States, in 1954. The chain quickly formed when Fuller set up various Earls restaurants in his home of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. More than twenty years later, Earls restaurants populate areas across Western Canada, the United States, and Ontario. The restaurant remains a family-run, private business with many equity shareholders, and Leroy handing the management reigns over to son Stanley Fuller in the mid-1990s.

Awards

Best Casual Restaurant - "Calgary Herald" (1993 - present)
Best Casual Restaurant - "Vancouver Magazine" (1994 - present)
50 Best Wine Restaurants in Canada - "Wine Access Magazine" (2004)
Gold Glass Award - "Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival" (2005)
Lifetime Achievement Award - "The School of Wine Educators" (2005)
Best Restaurant Atmosphere - "Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg" (2007)