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Article: BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse could B a lot better.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2007
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Byline: Scott Joseph
Jun. 17--Orlando has a reputation of being the chain-restaurant capital of the world. I'm not sure it's a sobriquet we deserve.
Oh, sure, we're the hometown of Darden, the chain-restaurant factory. And Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe have corporate headquarters here. Ruth's Chris Steak House is housed in Lake Mary. E-Brands, with Timpano, Samba Room and others, calls Orlando home, too.
But to say we're the capital of chain restaurants assumes that we have representatives of more chains than anyplace else. And I don't think that's the case because new chains are coming to town all the time.
Oh, look, here's one ...