One of the weirdest things is how every pizza joint in New York City is named Ray’s Pizza or Ray’s Original Pizza or World-Famous Original Ray’s Pizza. It’d be one thing if they were chains, but they’re not. Is there anything similar anywhere else?
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In San Diego County we have taco shops called Alberto’s and every variation you can think of … Albertito’s, Albertino’s, Albeito’s, Alberdo’s.
They are everywhere, with virtually identical versions of ‘Americanized Mexican’ food.
And I cannot help myself, I love all of them.
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You beat me to it. Add Aliberto’s, Alberto’s. And then there are other names for taco shops with similar themes and variations. Can’t recall any at the moment but I now they’re there. Maybe others can come up with them
Seems like every town in Oklahoma big enough to have a stop light has a First State Bank and a First Baptist Church and a First Christian Church.
We have 3 stoplights and a Fifth-Third Bank. I have no idea where that one came from. It would be fun to open a bar across the street and call it The Third Fifth.
From Wikipedia:
I had been wondering the same thing myself.
I prefer the “Third Fifth” moniker;-)
I think it was the old-fashioned version of being the first to comment on a blog post, e.g. “first!”. Or like naming your company AAAsomethingorrather to get into the phone book.
Here in San Francisco a business will put “fog” or “Bay” in the title.
Southern California burger places – how many variations of “Tommy’s” are there?
There used to be so many Italian restaurants named Joe’s in S.F., mostly dating from the ’30s and ’40s. We still have Little Joe’s, Original Joe’s, and a relative newcomer, Joe DiMaggio’s. Across the bay, there’s Marin Joe’s and San Rafael Joe’s that also cook Italian. It’s confusing and there’s also Joe’s Cable Car for burgers, Joe’s Ice Cream, and I think a Chinese restaurant called Joes. And then there’s Trader Joes where I like to get a quick shot of coffee to brace up for grocery shopping.
That was the first thing I thought of, too.
I see you beat me to it!
Every-other corner in Detroit has a Coney Island restaurant, none of them chained with the other (except Onassis Coney Islands).
true.
Um… Onassis? Lafayette, Leo’s, Senate’s, Kerby’s and about a billion Albanian owned coney islands. But, I think there is only one Onassis Coney Island in the city.
Tommy’s burgers in LA. Original Tommys and rip-off Tommys abound…
when I was about ten, I noticed that every town we drove through on our frequent road trips had a Thunderbird Motel. So finally one day I went in to the office of one of these Thunderbird Motels and asked the owner if they were a chain. He just looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears, as Jean Shepherd used to say.
You should try them next time you’re there, Booman, if you haven’t already. Julia’s Empenadas and Moby Dick’s House of Kebab. You can get a good large meal for $8 or $9. The only one of their outlets that isn’t a hole in the wall is the Moby’s in Dupont Circle, near N Street and Connecticut Ave.
Every town has a Main Street. Must be some kind of conspiracy.
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Ever notice how many pizza joints around the country are either Two Brothers or Three Brothers Pizza?
yeah, whaddup with the sisters?
Differnt twist down here. We have a number of Tex-Mex chains, Jalisco’s, Acapulco, Altenos, etc., and they all use the exact same menu. If your favorite dish at Jalisco’s is number 11, it’s also #11 at the others.
who makes the paper towels that New Yorkers pretend is pizza crust!