Chick-fil-A restaurant constructed on the site. On June 16, 2019, Eat’n Park in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, closed its doors after 53 years. The building was subsequently torn down. Other concepts Eat'n Park has been expanding its offerings outside its namesake family restaurants, operating upscale restaurants as well as more casual eating places. The company's most successful concept is Hello Bistro, a fast casual chain focused on millennials offering gourmet burgers and salads while keeping its parent company ties to a minimum by offering prepackaged Smiley Cookies and the same brand of ranch dressing as the main Eat'n Park chain, but otherwise making no references to Eat'n Park. With six locations, Eat'n Park plans to expand the Hello Bistro concept throughout the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and potentially into new markets. Eat'n Park Hospitality Group Eat'n Park Hospitality Group is a portfolio of foodservice concepts focused on personalized dining and winner of the National Restaurant Association's 2011 Restaurant award. Smoking Eat'n Park banned smoking throughout the chain on May 30, 2007, sixteen months before a statewide smoking ban was enacted in Pennsylvania. Christmas commercial A Christmas tradition in the Pittsburgh region is the annual airing of an animated Eat'n Park commercial that shows a Christmas star (named Sparkle) struggling to reach the top of a Christmas tree until the tree bends over to help the star up. Released in 1982, in support of a charity at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the commercial became so popular that Eat'n Park has re-aired the ad every year since, starting in late November. Eat'n Park now sells merchandise during the holiday season based on the ad. It is believed to be the longest-running Christmas commercial in the US, longer than national television ads by Folgers, Hershey's Kisses, and M&M's, as well as a regional commercial by the Pennsylvania Lottery. Sparkle, the Eat'n Park Star was trademarked by Eat'n Park in 1990 but was abandoned two years later. References External links Smiley Cookie website Economy of the Eastern United States Regional restaurant chains in the United States 1949 establishments in Pennsylvania Restaurants established in 1949 Big Boy Restaurants