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JB's Family Restaurants is chain of restaurants located in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. JB’s Family Restaurants was founded in 1961 by Jack M. Broberg as a Big Boy restaurants affiliate; the first restaurant was located in Provo, Utah. In 1988 JB's dropped Big Boy, allowing its franchise agreement to lapse. In March 2000 the company was sold from Santa Barbara Restaurant Group to Lynn Whiteford of LBW Investments. JB’s operates 50 restaurants of which twenty four are company operated and 26 are franchised or licensed. The JB's chain also contains the small chain of Galaxy Diners, including a location on Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona.
In 1984, JB's purchased 16 restaurants from the Salem, Oregon-based VIP's chain (not to be confused with a Walmart (Mexico)-owned restaurant chain using that name in Mexico). At that time, JB's Restaurants was based in Salt Lake City and had 80 restaurants, excluding the new acquisitions.
On March 9, 2011, JB's Family Restaurants filed for bankruptcy.