Editing Arthur Treacher's (section)

=== Namesake ===

[[File:ArthurTreachers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A since-closed Arthur Treacher's [[Brand alliances|co-branded]] with a [[Nathan's Famous]] in [[downtown Pittsburgh]]]]
The chain is the namesake of [[Arthur Treacher]] (1894–1975), an English [[character actor]] typecast as "the perfect [[butler]]" for his performances as [[Jeeves]], a butler in several [[Shirley Temple]] films in addition to the role of Constable Jones in ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'' from [[The Walt Disney Company#1955.E2.80.931965: Disneyland|Walt Disney Productions]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871546/?ref_=tt_cl_t10|title=Arthur Treacher |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> At the time the chain was founded, Treacher was best known as the announcer and sidekick to [[Merv Griffin]] on ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1560407/Merv-Griffin.html|title=Merv Griffin |work=Telegraph|access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> Although Treacher never confirmed whether he had a financial involvement in the restaurants, he was "a spokesman for the restaurant chain in its early years, underscoring the [[United Kingdom|British]] character of its food."<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Arthur:Treacher.htm |title= Arthur Treacher's Restaurant Chain Food Chips Fish Butler| website= economicexpert.com |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130113090805/http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Arthur%3ATreacher.htm |archivedate=January 13, 2013 |publisher= | date= | access-date= }}</ref> Treacher sometimes visited the restaurants, arriving in a red [[double-decker bus]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Petkovic|first=John|work=The Plain Dealer|date=2018-03-15|title=Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips is alive and thriving in Northeast Ohio (photos)|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/03/arthur_treachers_fish_chips_is.html|access-date=2021-06-01|language=en}}</ref> In a 1975 interview, [[New England]] franchise vice president M. John Elliott claimed the fish recipe to be the actor's own, brought over from the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/60607182/|title= Fish and Chips Restaurant Slated to Open in Stratford |work= Bridgeport Post|date=15 January 1975 |via= Newspapers.com |access-date=1 January 2015}}</ref>