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Gino's is back

Ex-Baltimore Colt Gino Marchetti is back promoting his onetime employee Tom Romano's reborn hamburger chain

Everybody goes to Gino's/ Gino's is the place to go...

Back before McDonald's took over half the US hamburger-chain business, regional knockoffs like Philadelphia's Gino's stuffed local guts. The chain, owned by ex-Baltimore Colts Gino Marchetti and Alan Ameche, spread to more than 500 stores before Host Marriott Corp. bought it 30 years ago and turned them into Roy Rogers ("Wanna Trigger-burger?").
But Gino's is back, reports Jason Nark in the Daily News here. Marchetti, of West Chester, is helping Tom Romano, once a Gino's boss, later head of Saladworks, at the new chain. The first stores, in King of Prussia, Bensalem and suburban Baltimore, aren't taking on the cheap-and-fast chains; they're more casual-dining sit-down joints, like Five Guys.