Phoenix Inn Suites history

Early one morning in 1971, it all ended in a tragic fire that many Salem residents still remember to this day.

Together, the 57 restaurants had gross sales of more than $41 million in 1981.

By 1982, the company was operating 53 VIP's coffee-shop-style restaurants and had also opened four Mexican restaurants that had other names, including La Casa Real and Tortilla Machine.

In 1984, VIP's sold 16 restaurants to JB's Restaurants, of Salt Lake City.

By 1989, the last VIP's Restaurants had been sold, and the company had branched out into the hotel business.

The entire six-restaurant La Casa Real chain was sold in December 1994 to Chevy's, which was expanding rapidly in the Portland metropolitan area at that time.

The Paradise Police Department Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) program was established in 1996.

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Opening in March of 2005 as part of the Salem Convention Center complex, The hotel was designed as the flagship property for VIP'S Industries, Inc., a regional hospitality company.

However, in 2006 VIP's sold the hotel chain, which had grown to 13 hotels in Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, to a joint venture whose owners planned to continue operating it under the Phoenix Inn Suites name.

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