Embers America history

In 1969 or so the motel was demolished and an Embers Restaurant was built.

In 1972, units opened in St Cloud, Minnesota, and Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Twenty-six Embers restaurants were in operation by 1978.

He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1990 and then returned home to work for a St Paul-based law firm.

Kristal gained some notoriety for himself when he and another Winthrop & Weinstine attorney helped a small Atlanta company gain a much sought after contract for the cleanup of New York's World Trade Center after a 1993 bomb blast.

The program, begun in 1997, pumped more than $1.5 million into staff retraining; staff also expanded by about ten percent.

As the pressure continued to build on the business his father co-owned, David Kristal was embarking on a different career path. It's never been done before," said Kristal in a June 1998 Minneapolis/St Paul CityBusiness article by Dirk DeYoung, about the Embers America concept.

As of July 1, 1999, four corporate restaurants and 26 franchise locations were operating in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota.

The December 2003 directory lists it as Embers America-Sophie’s.

The building at this location now was built in 2007.