Spaghetti Warehouse is a regional restaurant chain with more than 20 restaurants in nine states in the Southern and Eastern United States. Its menu items include soups and salads, lasagna, chicken parmigiana, steak, seafood pasta, desserts, spaghetti and kids items. Spaghetti Warehouse restaurants also offer space for private parties, meetings, birthdays and family events. The first Spaghetti Warehouse opened in 1972 in the old warehouse district of downtown Dallas. The Spaghetti Warehouse chain is operated by Consolidated Restaurant Operations. CRO also operates El Chico, Good Eats, Cantina Laredo, Lucky s Cafe, Fox Steakhouse, III Forks Steakhouse and Cool River Cafe.