09-01-2008, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by AZ Nomad[_2_]
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:28:42 -0500, Shawn Hirn wrote:
Something I have been wondering about is, why do the western states, at
least California and Nevada have so many more different fast food
restaurants then we do in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey?
For example, in California, there are tons of fast food faux Mexican
places such as Del Taco, Polo Loco, etc. while in the northeast, the
only one I can think of is Taco Bell. The variety of fast food burger
places out west is amazing. Just a few off the top of my had: In-N-Out,
Fat Burger, Whataburger, Sonic, Burger King, McDonalds, Carls Jr., Jack
In the Box, Hardee's, and Wendays. In my area, its only Wendy's, McD's,
and BK. For fast food chicken, I think we're pretty much on par east and
west coasts, but for burger and Mexican joints, there seems like a lot
of untapped opportunity here in the northeast.
I wonder why the variety of fast food places is so much better in the
west coast than east coast? Do any of you have any ideas?
It is because in the areas where lots of chain restaurants exist,
5-10 years ago they were just undeveloped fields. There are no locally
owned restaurants. If you get out to newly developed areas in the northeast,
such as those that were farmland 5 years ago, you'll find the same
proportion of chain restaurants. And it is not a good thing. |
I dont know exactly in the Northeast you live...but where I live everyone is very habitual. If there were a new food chain to come out, I'd doubt they'd go to it anyway.
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