Uncle Nick’s Greek Fried Chicken restraining order dissolved

Staff report

WARREN

A judge has dissolved a temporary restraining order that prevented Uncle Nick’s Greek Fried Chicken of Austintown from billing itself as a purveyor of “Uncle Nick’s” chicken.

The restaurant was ordered to stop billing itself as “Uncle Nicks” July 6, after the owner and maker of the marinade used to make the chicken filed legal action against the restaurant.

Nick Frankos, owner of the Buena Vista Cafe in Warren, filed the action in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on July 6, saying Dino Vardavas of Warren, Roger A. Peterson of Cortland and Uncle Nick’s Fried Chicken LLC had lost the right to market their chicken as “Uncle Nick’s” because it was no longer buying the marinade from Frankos. The Buena Vista Cafe opened on Buena Vista Avenue Northeast in 1956.

The temporary restraining order is dissolved because the parties have agreed that Vardavas and Peterson will resume buying the marinade from Frankos at the same price he previously charged.

The breach of contract complaint, however, will continue. Frankos raised other issues in the complaint, asking for an accounting of the finances of Uncle Nick’s Fried Chicken LLC and asking for the company to be dissolved.

The company was created in 2008, and it opened Uncle Nick’s Greek Fried Chicken restaurants in Boardman, Newton Falls and Austintown, though only the Austintown restaurant is still open, the injunction request says.

In the agreement between Frankos and the company, Frankos was to teach the company how to make the chicken, and the company was to buy the marinade from Frankos, the injunction request says.