#Theme Restaurant

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Video thumbnail — Hard Rock Cafe, Nashville — 1997 home-video footage
Food 1971–present

Hard Rock Cafe

Guitars on the walls, a tour tee with the city name on the back, and a burger under a wall of rock-and-roll relics. The Hard Rock Cafe turned a meal into a souvenir, and in the '90s a Hard Rock shirt from wherever you'd traveled was a small flex all its own.

Video thumbnail — Planet Hollywood opening, 1993 — Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis
Food 1991–present

Planet Hollywood

The movie-memorabilia restaurant chain backed by Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, and Moore — where you ate burgers under a display case of screen-worn props. Planet Hollywood was 1990s celebrity capitalism served with a side of fries.