Fran's Restaurant, Toronto

Fran's Restaurant is a small chain of restaurants based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its first restaurant was a haunt of pianist Glenn Gould. The flagship location was opened in 1940 by Fran Deck near the intersection of St. Clair Avenue West and Yonge Street and closed in 2001. Fran's originally had only ten seats, but later expanded to a small chain of restaurants in Toronto, including locations at Yonge and College (1950-present), Yonge and Dundas (1960-1984) and Yonge and Eglinton (1945-2001), and one in Hamilton. Currently, Fran's operates five corporate-owned locations, including three in Toronto, one in Barrie, Ontario, and its first US location in Kansas City, Missouri. Deck died in 1977 in a car accident, and the business was...