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One that comes to my mind are the "Tommy Bahama Restaurants". They only appear to be in nice places with warm weather. They are cool restaurants which also include nice Tommy Bahama clothing stores attached to their restaurants. Anyway, these Tommy Bahama restaurant and retail store combinations are only at these locations listed below :
The Woodlands, Texas
Newport Beach, California
Naples, Florida
Scottsdale, Arizona
Wailea, Hawaii
Las Vegas, Nevada
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Laguna Beach, California
Orlando, Florida
Palm Desert, California
Sarasota, Florida
Mauna Lani, Hawaii
Sandestin, Florida
( These 13 places all seem like nice places with warm weather )
Any good restaurant is going to have 1 location with a 5 star chef that personally creates his own menu.
I can't think of a single restaurant with more than 2 locations that I would consider worth my time.
Actually there are several that have fairly high quality and consistently rate well with critics and the general public. Bonefish Grill is a good example.
Bonefish Grill | About BFG | The Press Room (http://www.bonefishgrill.com/about/news/bonefish-grill-recognized-2010-zagat-survey/ - broken link)
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Bertucci's is pretty good for a chain (certainly much better than the Olive Garden), but they're only in the Northeast.
In and Out Burger is only around California and the Southwest. It's something I could live without, but certainly better than most burger joint chains.
What is the difference between this restaurant and Red Lobster? I can't tell.
Both seem pretty low rent to me.
Fresh seafood versus frozen for starters, as well as quality of preparation and service. If you're unable to tell, that would seemingly lessen your credibility on this topic.
California Pizza Kitchen. They are only in major metropolitan areas in nice malls or good locations, and some major metro areas don't have them (Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Providence). There's none between Minneapolis and Seattle. Every state between MA and FL has them except for SC.
Cheesecake Factory must have over 250,000 people within a five-mile radius and a average household income of $50-70,000 (as of 2007). Major metro areas like Minneapolis and Charlotte have only one or two of them, and there's none in the Detroit area, and none between Jacksonville and Richmond on I-95. All of their restaurants are corporately owned.
Buca di Beppo doesn't have any locations in the New York area, one in Atlanta, and none in the Washington suburbs, but still they are a major national chain.
Once I asked a Wendy's out on a date and told it that we'd be going to Sally's Pizzaria in New Haven. Well, I got turned down because the Wendy's restaurant claimed Sally's was merely a second rate pizza joint. Such ignorance. :-)
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