Re: Why so few ff places in the northeast?

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> The variety of fast food burger places in the bay area is not amazing.
> I've never seen a Sonic, a Whataburger, or a Fat Burger here. In-n-Out
> took a half-century to move north. And Carl's Jr. owns Hardee's.
> Further, we have no White Castles, and even Dairy Queens are few and
> far between.
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> The part of the west that we live in is not blessed with fast food
> chains in general. Fried chicken joints are in short supply; hating
> KFC I would drive to East SJ to get Church's. Luckily now there are a
> few PopeYes outposts. Sometimes nothing satisfies like deep fried
> food: Where are the Long John Silvers, the Arthur Treachers?  The lone
> Dunkin' Donuts went out of business.

Arthur Treachers' parent company is the same as Kenny Rodgers. They're 
both owned by Nathans Hotdogs who has a strange business model which 
consists of closing branches. They closed down almost all the Kenny 
Rodgers Roasters and Arthur Treachers stores and opened up just a few 
food court places where you can buy from a very limited menu of each 
one. What a shame. 

As for SF, its choice of fast food places is limited, but nowhere near 
to the Philadelphia area. We don't even have Carls Jr or In-n-Out. I 
rarely eat fast food hamburgers, but when I do, I would much prefer 
In-N-Out to BK, Wendy's, and McDonalds which are the only choices in my 
area for that sort of food.