Ransom restaurant celebrates 50 years, also plans to sell

Jerry’s Tap & Family Dining will remain open until a buyer is found

Eyes On Enterprise

Stephanie Jaquins

It’s a bittersweet time for the family who runs Jerry’s Tap & Family Dining.

The family recently announced the restaurant is for sale, but the business also made it to 50 years and the family plans to celebrate the anniversary.

Jerry Yedinak opened the restaurant at 119 N. Lincoln St., Ransom in 1973.

“We were pretty much born and raised there,” said his daughter, Maranda Trainor, adding she and her siblings worked there in grade school and high school.

Jerry died in March 2019 and Trainor has worked full time at the restaurant for 16 years. She owns the restaurant along with her siblings, Jeremy Yedinak, Jason Yedinak, Kristina Zelko and Katie Hamilton.

“The year after he passed was COVID,” Trainor said. “We obviously fought for it, we didn’t want to lose it to that and we had amazing support from the community and surrounding areas