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MCL Restaurant & Bakery, formerly known as MCL Cafeterias, is a chain of American cafeteria-style restaurants based in
Company website
Companies based in Indianapolis Restaurants in Indianapolis Economy of the Midwestern United States Regional restaurant chains in the United States Restaurants established in 1950 Cafeteria-style restaurants 1950 establishments in Indiana
Indianapolis
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. As of April 2024, the company operates 13 locations in Illinois
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, Indiana
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, and Ohio
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.
Background
The company began with a single cafeteria inIndianapolis, Indiana
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, in 1950, founded by Charles O. McGaughey and George Laughner. MCL is an abbreviation of their two names. Today, the chain operates locations in Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
, Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
, and Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
. It is a privately owned company, now exclusively owned by the McGaughey family. In 2007, MCL Cafeterias changed the brand to "MCL Restaurant and Bakery", although no fundamental changes were made in production. MCL competed with Laughner's Cafeteria, which was founded by a cousin.
See also
* List of cafeteriasReferences
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Companies based in Indianapolis Restaurants in Indianapolis Economy of the Midwestern United States Regional restaurant chains in the United States Restaurants established in 1950 Cafeteria-style restaurants 1950 establishments in Indiana