Hacienda: the chain founded in a brewer's mansion

1978 — present · 706 Lincolnway West, the 100 Center

The founding, in the company's own sentence: The chain Mishawaka sent out into Indiana begins with a sentence its own history still leads with: "Hacienda Mexican Restaurants began with one location in 1978 in the historic mansion of a brewer in Mishawaka Indiana." The mansion is Adolphus Kamm's house in the Kamm & Schellinger brewery complex at 706 Lincolnway West — the brewery built in 1853, closed in 1951, listed on the National Register on October 11, 1979, and converted as the 100 Center — whose conversion is Malls' to tell and is pointed to here; the brewery as a firm is Businesses'. What the restaurant made of the house is the food record: a Mexican table in a German brewer's mansion, the first of its kind in the city in the record reached, trading on three documented signatures the company's own menu copy dates to the founding — "Since 1978 wet burritos fresh chips and salsa and famous frozen margaritas have belonged to Hacienda." The wet burrito is printed as what the company claims it is, a signature; no invention claim for it appears in the record, and none is made here.

The spread, at the company's own dates: The chain's location histories give its course out of Mishawaka at house strength, and they are printed at that strength. The Grape Road house is dated by the chain's own history to 1983, in the first wave of the corridor's restaurants — the corridor's fabric is Malls', and this house's second Mishawaka stand is pointer size here. Beyond the city the company's histories date Michigan City to April 1983, Kokomo to September 1985, and Evansville's Green River Road house to 1985, moved in February 1994; Goshen followed in November 1996, and Warsaw in May 1998, "the first of the new prototype buildings." The founders' names do not appear in the company's history as published, nor in the press record reached for this section; the gap is named in this section's note. The founding house still trades in the mansion at 706 Lincolnway West — one closing line, as the rule allows.

Sources:

1. Hacienda Mexican Restaurants, company history and location histories (haciendafiesta.com, as mirrored) — the 1978 founding in the brewer's mansion; the menu copy dating the wet burrito, chips and salsa, and frozen margaritas to 1978; the Grape Road house at 1983; Michigan City, April 1983; Kokomo, September 1985; Evansville Green River Road, 1985 and the February 1994 move; Goshen, November 1996; Warsaw, May 1998, the first prototype building.
2. Malls section of this history — the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery at 100 Center Street, built 1853, closed 1951, National Register listing of 11 October 1979, and the 100 Center conversion; the Grape Road corridor's restaurant wave.