A walleye is a pike, like a large trout, only meaner. Found in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and north. Filleted and batter fried. If you ever get to Wisconsin in the summer try to find a Friday night fish fry. They're all over. Go to a really small town, and the farther north you are the better. Kind of like an east coast clam bake (I think). Or if you're around in the winter get a limburger sandwich and a brandy alexander (to ward off the chill). Or a bratwurst.You know the whole local burger vs national chain thing is really interesting. I've never even heard of "Smash Burger", "Meatheads", "Steak n Shake", "Culver's", or "Walleye dinner" But I'm sure like the regional burgers here in the Northwest, they all put out a better burger than any of the really big chains. As a chain get's larger the uniqueness of the burger and it's quality goes down at an abysmal rate.
A walleye is a pike, like a large trout, only meaner. Found in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and north. Filleted and batter fried. If you ever get to Wisconsin in the summer try to find a Friday night fish fry. They're all over. Go to a really small town, and the farther north you are the better. Kind of like an east coast clam bake (I think). Or if you're around in the winter get a limburger sandwich and a brandy alexander (to ward off the chill). Or a bratwurst.
I think food chains tend to be slow to expand because it's so expensive to get the exact same ingredients from one area to another.
That's the excuse that In-N-Out Burger always uses but I don't buy it. This isn't the 1800's. We have refrigeration and automobiles. No burger joint is using lettuce grown out behind the store. There are cows all over this country. People on both coasts know how to bake bread and make cheese. Yes it's hard to grow a tomato in Milwaukee in January... but I guarantee that there are restaurants in the area that somehow magically still serve a BLT.
I think the big issue is competing with the established chains already in the region. Here in Seattle we have Wendy's, Burger King, McDonalds, and Jack in the box (all of them kind of lame). Carl's Jr. and Sonic are knocking on the door opening up a locations around the state. But no stores directly in the Seattle area yet. My guess is they are moving in slowly trying to steal little bits of the existing burger joint's business to establish themselves. As word of mouth spreads about them they slowly expand.
Krispy Kreme is an interesting example as well. I first experienced Krispy Kreme in Vegas. We knew nothing about the place other than it was supposed to be good. When we were there they were out of Original Glazed. The customers coming in were flipping out about how that could be allowed to happen. We were confused. Then we looked around us and there were table after table of families who had come to Krispy Kreme to buy a dozen donuts and sit down and eat the box as a family. That just doesn't happen in Seattle. When we finally got a Krispy Kreme there was a huge deal and people lined up for hours to get a donut. But once they had tried them word quickly spread that "They were fine but ______ is better". Today there are 3 or 4 stores in the area and they are mostly empty.
That's the excuse that In-N-Out Burger always uses but I don't buy it. This isn't the 1800's. We have refrigeration and automobiles. No burger joint is using lettuce grown out behind the store. There are cows all over this country. People on both coasts know how to bake bread and make cheese. Yes it's hard to grow a tomato in Milwaukee in January... but I guarantee that there are restaurants in the area that somehow magically still serve a BLT.
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