But from the Rainforest Cafe’s 1994 opening to its acquisition, Schussler ran the restaurants independently and with a whimsical hand. He brought live parrots, cockatoos, and toucans into the ...

Where else could you tuck into a bowl of python pasta, soundtracked against the prerecorded grunts and grumbles of gorillas and screech of live parrots ... at the Rainforest Cafe was a right ...

Rainforest Cafe has been delighting families with animatronic ... pouring into waterfalls and pools and alarming the animatronic wildlife—macaws, jaguars, gorillas and more.

Landry’s made changes: the cafe no longer employs handlers who paraded around the restaurant with parrots, for example. A Rainforest Cafe spokesperson sent in this statement, attributed to Don ...

The Rainforest Cafe may be gone, but its spirit lives on — sort of — at Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo has revamped and reopened its restaurant above its gift shop. At Bird’s Eye Bar & Grilll ...

Like each of the chain’s locations, Towson’s Rainforest Cafe featured rain forest-themed decor and sound effects, including animatronic animals, simulated thunderstorms, live parrots and ...