JONESVILLE, Wisconsin (WMTV) – Take the 20 second-floor steps at 214 W. Milwaukee Street and you’ll enter the Cozy Inn, a Chinese restaurant celebrating its 100-year milestone this November.
The anniversary continues to make Cozy Inn one of the oldest Chinese restaurants not only in the Badger State, but across the country.
The public is invited to celebrate this milestone with the Fong family at the Cozy Inn on Monday, November 11 at the Olde Towne Mall in downtown Janesville.2-4:14pm
The restaurant first opened in November 1922 in the same location as today’s Wong family. For over 50 years, generations of the Wong family ran the restaurant before selling it in 1975 to Marie Shum and her husband.
Marie’s son, Tom Fong, and his wife, Amanda, and her sister, Michelle, currently own and operate the business.
“It’s a really heartfelt feeling to know the community has supported us over the years,” Tom said. “Knowing they cared so much for us, it’s touching, and I still see what they write today on Facebook…We’re so grateful for the Our community feels the same way, how important they are to us.”
The event takes place in November. On the 14th there will be a meet and greet with members of the Fong family. At 3 p.m., Commissioner David Moore, Janesville’s Acting City Manager, will make a formal announcement acknowledging this historic milestone.
“People say that when they come here, [it’s] It’s so nostalgic for them, some of them have been here since they were toddlers, as far as they can remember…” Tom said.
Attendees can sample some of the restaurant’s most popular appetizers, including egg rolls, rangoons and wontons, served with fortune cookies and tea.
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