Founded in San Francisco in 1937, Original Joe’s is a family-operated restaurant group known for Italian-American cooking. The business is currently operated by Elena and John Duggan, who oversee the restaurant’s locations and related concepts in the Bay Area.
The restaurant’s menu includes several traditional Italian-American dishes. According to the Chronicle, the brand is known for chicken parmigiana, house-made ravioli and baked lasagna. Its restaurants have maintained a connection to the original San Francisco concept while expanding to other communities in the region.
Original Joe’s began in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. After a fire destroyed the original restaurant in 2007, the family reopened in North Beach in 2012. The group has since operated additional locations, including restaurants in Daly City and the East Bay…