Earls Restaurants
West Vancouver

About Earls Restaurants West Vancouver

Leroy Earl "Bus" (short for Buster, a childhood nick name) Fuller, the patriarch of Earls, was born in 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Bus first entered the restaurant business a few years after he was wounded in the Korean War, opening coffee shops and cafes that served the local farmers of Montana.

In the late fifties Bus moved his young, growing family to Canada settling in Edmonton owning and operating a series of early A&W franchises, later expanding to 30 locations as well as steakhouse concepts.

The family moved to West Vancouver, BC in the seventies. In 1982 Bus and his eldest son Stanley opened the first Earls restaurant on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton, AB (now closed).

With their home base in BC, they opened their second location in North Vancouver in June of 1984. The corporate head office was just down the...