That may be just around the time the owner/founder sold it and it went corporate? I believe he retained an interest in any HRC's that have gambling (and/or hotels?) associated wth them, but that's it.

Anyway, we've had one in our town since 1990, and in the last few years the food has become so bad we avoid it like the plague. And we're not the only ones: we've watched their business decline steadily over the years, from gangbusters to pitiful.

So it goes.