Cool Facts
President Bush visited Yours Truly Mentor in April 2006. View the President's Visit.
YT was featured in the June 2003 issue of Restaurants and Institutions.
Olympic Gold Medalist Tatiana Gutsu dined at Yours Truly Mayfield Village on February 1, 2008. She earned the gold in the all-around competition in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.
Discovery Channel's design guru Christopher Lowell, a Chagrin Falls native, loves YT's omelets and burgers.
You can find YT Shaker Square mentioned in "Kiss of Evil" by Richard Montanari.
The Shibleys were featured in a cartoon in the Free Times.
Actor Mr. T. once dined at YT Beachwood.
When NBC News correspondent Kelly O'Donnell visits her family in Cleveland, you can often find them dining at YT Mayfield Village.
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O'Donnell
YT Chagrin Falls was featured in the introduction to the sitcom "Ed".
To stop unruly youth from loitering behind YT Beachwood, the restaurant switched the music on its speaker system from Top 40 tunes to classical music. National radio personality Paul Harvey mentioned the story on one of his daily news reports.
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Harvey
YT was listed as one of the "Top 54 Reasons to Love Living in Cleveland" in an ad that promoted Cleveland in 1985.
Actors Jack Nicholson, Cleveland natives Halle Berry and Drew Carey and singer Chuck Berry all have dined at Yours Truly. In fact, Halle Berry mentioned Yours Truly directly in a magazine interview about her hometown.
YT appeared in annual reports for Smucker's jelly and Invacare Corporation, as well as a commercial for Ford.
A YT employee in SS was mentioned in the nationally televised presidential debates by Senator Bob Dole in 1996.
Jim Garfield (1920 - 2005), great grandson of President Garfield, was a diner at YT Mentor and all Yours Truly restaurants. A memorial plaque marks his regular counter spot.
Lawyer Beth Faragher, known for her landmark Supreme Court sexual harassment case in 1998, Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, is a former YT employee. The case is still studied in law schools across the country.
The King's Singers, an a cappella group from the United Kingdom with over 60 records and a Grammy to their name, dined at YT Mentor while on tour in 2003.
Former Cleveland Indians baseball player Jim Thome dined at YT Beachwood in October 2003.
YT Chagrin Falls is featured in Miriam Carey's book, Fifty-two Romantic Outings in Greater Cleveland (find YT in Chapter 21 - The Waterfall Date).
The October 2004 issue of Cruisin' Times magazine included a full page article, including photos, about Fab 4th, a classic car show sponsored by Yours Truly Chagrin Falls that takes place annually on the 4th of July.
1956 Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medal winner Pete Rademacher - the only boxer to fight for the World Championship in his first professional fight - often dines at YT Medina.
Throughout the 1980s, YT Beachwood supplied food to inmates housed in the City of Beachwood's jail.
Former YT Mayfield Village server Jillian Koluder was thrown a surprise bridal shower on Oprah's show in February 2005. As if that wasn't exciting enough, Oprah also gave them a surprise honeymoon trip to Australia!
Mario Rizzotti, one of the judges of the Food Network's well known show, Iron Chef America, dined at Yours Truly in March 2007. Mario is also a Midwest Territory manager for Academia Barilla Italian Food Company.
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Kingsbury
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, America’s #1 inspirational novelist, dined at Yours Truly Mentor. There are nearly 5 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including award-winning Oceans Apart, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, the Redemption Series and Firstborn Series, and several other bestsellers, one of which was the basis for a CBS Move-of-the-Week. Gideon's Gift is currently in production as a major theatrical release for Christmas 2007.
YT hosted Dinner with the Presidents in February 2008. View the video.
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