Black Bear Diner
Offering the feel of a small-town mom-and-pop shop with affordable country-style favorites
Financing
Black Bear Diner crosses the Rockies
The California-based family-dining chain is taking its expansion east.
Back in 1995, near the ski slopes of Mount Shasta, Bruce Dean and Bob Manley scraped up $30,000 to open a restaurant. Adding in some credit from landlord and vendors, they remodeled a defunct eatery into the Black Bear Diner, a family restaurant with an outdoorsy atmosphere. Recalls Dean, “It was the only thing we could afford.”