Frequently Asked Questions

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We have several entertainers that offer lunch and dinner shows here. Check out our entertainment and their websites here. 

No. We have a full dessert menu that you are welcome to choose from, but we do not allow outside food or drink. 

We offer room reservations for 35 people or more. Go to private rooms and more tab. or call us at 630-739-1720

Yes, for 8 or more. We have a special group menu for showers, banquets, and private parties of all kinds (for 25 or more).

Normally, the holiday decorations are up by the second week of November.

Yes, All locations are closed in January for our season.  This allows us to do upgrades to our facility as needed. 

Our 11 dining rooms seat about 1,000 people. We serve more than 4,000 chicken dinners to more than 6,000 people on Mothers Day weekend. We're on 12 acres, have 567 parking spaces, and serve 5,000 to 10,000 people weekly. On an average week we sell 7,000 to 8,000 chicken dinners.

Yes! The current owner is Laura Hastert who is the 3rd generation of the Hastert family. We are proud to be FEMALE owned. 

Because evenings and weekends are when families most often gather. Considering our size, it's much more manageable and cost effective to run only one crew with our hours of operation. 

*We do offer lunch on Sundays from 12-8PM for Dine-In and Saturdays & Sundays for carry-out.

No. Robert and Doris Hastert started White Fence Farm in 1954. Then, Bob Jr. (their son) joined the business in the 1960s. Now Bob's daughter, Laura, and the same managers all operate the business. We have 4 carryout locations in Joliet, Downers Grove, Riverside, and Romeoville which is behind our main restaurant, (we serve the Romeoville carryout through the main restaurant on weeknights and at the carryout store on weekends) .The Hastert's White Fence Farm in Romeoville, Illinois is the original, is the only one and holds a Federal Trademark on the name. 

Every Monday, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. We are open New Years Day then close in January. We reopen around the first week of February. 

No. They are shipped in from Georgia weekly. We get our steaks right here in the good ole' Midwest from Whittingham Meats in Alsip. We have our own aging process and cut the loins daily ourselves. 

In the 1900s it was part of a 450-acre farm owned by Stuyvesant Peabody of Mayslake in Oakbrook. It was a horse farm then the barn housed coal miners before Peabody turned it into a hamburger restaurant and named his joint White Fence Farm.  Robert Hastert SR with his wife Doris bought it in 1954. They brought their chicken and corn fritter receipt with them from their restaurant in Aurora, the Harmony house.