Restaurateur Francis Deck ran the legendary Toronto diner chain Fran’s

Blast from my past growing up in Toronto where one of my high school hang-outs was a Fran’s at Yonge and Eglinton.

But more significantly, Fran’s reflected the old Toronto that my parents settled in after the war as captured in the following quote:

…“In the early 1960s, Fran’s was the restaurant of record for Rosedale meals out. Toronto didn’t eat out much then, and Fran’s offered comfort,” former Globe and Mail food critic Joanne Kates said. “It was all about superbly managed expectations. The innards of the slightly dry club sandwich never wavered from one year to the next. The food was bland – the way staid old Hogtown liked it. When the food scene in Toronto exploded in the 1970s, Fran’s became an object of gastro-derision. It was a sad day for an institution of such reliability.”…

Source: Restaurateur Francis Deck ran the legendary Toronto diner chain Fran’s