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Regional chains that advertise outside their areas
- Thread starter nomadcowatbk
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I think Carrabba's, and all the other national accounts, are doing it subconsciously, through third parties, without even thinking about "overadvertising." 
Joe's Crab Shack which has as had national advertising appearing in New England for sometime is opening up its first Restaurant in the Northeast according to their ad in the local Methuen life newspaper. It joins all the other chains at the Methuen Loop. They say they are looking for other sites up and down the eastern seaboard
It may be a hard sell in New England where Red Lobster had a rough time going up against the thousands of spectacular local real New England seafood restaurants. The stuff Red Lobster call New England Clam Chowder is a diners nightmare if they have ever eaten the real stuff served in Essex and Gloucester.
May also have a rough go of it in the Baltimore area with all the great local crab shacks.
It may be a hard sell in New England where Red Lobster had a rough time going up against the thousands of spectacular local real New England seafood restaurants. The stuff Red Lobster call New England Clam Chowder is a diners nightmare if they have ever eaten the real stuff served in Essex and Gloucester.
May also have a rough go of it in the Baltimore area with all the great local crab shacks.
chrish said:
it's usually tourists and transplants that will eat at these chains instead of local places, probably the sames types that eat at Olive Garden in Times Square or in NJ, a chain will give the same average to crappy service everywhere, local restaurants are hit or miss
Yeah, it's like that here with places like Bubba Gump. Only the tourists go there because the locals know there's 15 or 20 seafood places in town that are better.
Where I live we have all three. I bought the computer I am using at Staples. It was just the first place I happened to go.anotherguy said:
Hardee's used to be bigger than McDonald's in NC but that may not be true now. I remember ads in the 70s with the lyrcs "Hurry on down to Hardee's, baby, where the burgers are charcoal-broiled."Gregg said:
And that was followed by "They're not just beef. They're chopped beef steak. Not just cooked they're charcoal-broiled."
We have an ice cream-only place around here with seats outside. It's a classic building, though, on the National Register or something. I think they open in winter. They still sell "Mr. Misty".Gregg said:
A full-menu place 30 miles away shares space with a convenience store. They changed the name of Mr. Misty to something else.
I enjoy their commercials, though I only know of one location in the Charlotte, NC area. There could be others.OhioMediaWatch said:
But they made me mad by stopping me from reading comic strips a few months back, so I want nothing to do with them. I was on a computer that was slow so any problems with a site slowed me down that much more. The "skip this ad" button didn't come up right away and I would try other methods only to be bothered by them again repeatedly. I nearly went in that one restaurant to complain. As to why I don't read the comic strips elsewhere, I could in some cases if the comics are on Comics Kingdom, but the comments are the best part. I miss so much, I guess, with comics I can read in a real newspaper.
They started there in the mid90s. Tampa was their first store. On Dale Mabry, I think it was.DToTheJ said:
Rush used to have two different mattress sponsors: Sleep Train in Northern California, which he indeed picked during his time as a local host on KFBK, and a second, national sponsor.
WMC2006 said:
The split was kinda weird. There are two different Albertson's websites, too! One of them offers this succinct explanation:
"Albertson’s LLC was formed in 2006, when the assets of Albertsons, Inc. were sold to three separate companies. SUPERVALU, out of Minnesota, bought the majority of the stores, and the free-standing drug stores in the south were sold to CVS. Albertson’s LLC acquired stores in Northern California, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, South Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Florida."
Going to my local LLC Albertson's-Osco (yes, the name remains, though nothing else named Osco exists*) is like a 21st-century version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It's a dark, downtrodden, bleak, and (for being 10 years old) really out of date store. It was built with lawn and garden, but that got sealed off. When I was in Chicago last time (2010) I went inside a Jewel (Supervalu). It was like night and day — what a difference.
*In Albertson's LLC. The Osco name went to Supervalu. The large in-store Osco signage at the local LLC Albertson's-Osco is a relic, and newer store signage (promotional) does not use it.
In Upstate South Carolina/Western North Carolina they got Jack in The Box (which has it's stores mostly in California, especially San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego which its headquartered there). Also Carolina First Bank is now TD Bank (you seen the ads with Kelly Ripa and her former talk-show partner now retired Regis Philbin) which TD Bank has branches in mostly the East coast (including NYC and Washington, DC).
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