City | Address | Notes |
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Alice | 820 S US 281 | Closed in the early 2010s, now Mi Ranchito Mexican Restaurant (thanks Travis G.) |
Austin | 2617 I-35 South | now Donn's Barbecue |
Baytown | 4915 Interstate 10 | Later Tuscany Italian Restaurant (permanently closed) |
Bryan | 1607 South Texas Avenue | existed in the 1980s, now Coco Loco |
Childress | 1902 Avenue F Northwest | Closed in the early 2010s, most signage still up but clearly abandoned |
College Station | 1403 University Drive | Closed late 1990s, torn down 2012 for Northpoint Crossing. "PANCAKE" sign leftover until demolition. |
701 University Drive East | Existed briefly in the center around 1983, now The Republic Steakhouse after a long line of others | |
Conroe | 904 W. Davis Street | Later Conroe Café and now El Charrito Restaurant |
Copperas Cove | 1504 East Highway 190 | Now Black Meg 43 (since at least 2013), with modern address being 1501 Ronald Reagan Highway (despite being the wrong side of the road) |
Dallas | 8111 East RL Thornton Freeway | Later JP's Cafe, which moved. In 2015, it was torn down and rebuilt as a Waffle House. * The "PANCAKE" sign was reused as new Waffle House signage, though only the "ANCAKE" part of the sign became "WAFFLE" |
Houston | 15360 John F. Kennedy Blvd. (Drummet Blvd.) | Now "Hot Biscuit". Still a Kettle as of 2011 but closed within a few years. Last Kettle in Houston. |
13280 FM 1960 Rd W | Later Harris County Smokehouse, moved out as of 2015 and demolished as of early 2016 | |
10333 East Freeway | Later Taqueria Arandas, now Don Rey Mexican Restaurant | |
13247 East Freeway | Later Castle Dental, now closed (might have closed after Harvey, build date from Loopnet says 1980) | |
1212 NASA Road 1 (NASA Pkwy.) | now Cuisine India | |
2701 Mangum Road | later Taqueria Arandas but now Perico's Mexican Cafe (TA moved) | |
5545 Southwest Freeway | Now Taqueria Tepatitlan. | |
16822 Northwest Freeway | Now Taqueria Arandas. Oddly not listed in phone books, but mentioned at WHA and in ads. | |
9902-A Gulf Freeway | Later La Tapatia, and now Habanera and the Guero. Closed sometime prior to the early 1990s but after Kettle had trimmed down its Houston stores by half in the mid-1980s | |
7625 Katy Freeway | Demolished in early 2000s for a Holiday Inn Express but had not been a Kettle in years by that point (not in mid-1990s listings) | |
Killeen | 1301 W. Central Texas Expressway | Closed September 2016 after 36 years. In March 2017, Shipley Do-Nuts opened there, but it only occupies half of the building. |
Pasadena | 4125 Spencer Hwy. | Now a Denny's |
3002 Pasadena Fwy. | Extant as of 1988, now Grand Prize Barbecue | |
6926 Spencer Hwy. | Now Skillet's Restaurant (co-existed with 4125, but closed much earlier) | |
Plainview | 700 I-27 | Closed at least since 2011, and torn down in the mid-2010s for an expansion of CEFCO and their parking lot. |
San Marcos | 1509 N I-35 | * Later "Pancake Restaurant" with "PANCAKE" sign leftover. * After closing, it was eventually torn down for Premier ER & Urgent Care, which replaced the "PANCAKE" sign with "PREMIER". |
Seguin | 1546 Highway 46 | now Garcia's |
Temple | 1010 North General Bruce | Later Denny's, torn down for highway widening c. 2013 |
Uvalde | 629 East Main Street | Closed |
Waco | 5801 Woodway Drive | Torn down c. 2010-2011 for a 7-Eleven |
Most of these still existed in the 1990s (with exceptions). The 1988 additions in July 2018 were after Kettle had trimmed down its stores in the Houston by about half. These additions are marked with a *. Additionally, the corporate headquarters were based in Houston at 3131 Argonne in 1988
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