Maybe it becomes the "Cool Chicken Inn", the "Chicken Inn", or even the "Chick-Inn." It would probably be a famous urban legend for the longest of time that the Cool Chicken Inn once was a rather racist establishment which would be on the level of "Proctor and Gamble tithe 10% to the Church of Satan", albeit an absolutely true urban legend.
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Some Burger King restaurants in Finland actually do serve beer, and now that I googled there have been establishments in the UK doing the same.
I'm pretty near certain I've had beer in McDonalds in Copenhagen. It was a long time ago [1] and Denmark was expensive so we may have had to go without (we were leaving due to lack of funds and still had money for other countries).
I think Netherlands McDonalds also do beer.
[1] well before the Euro, so if you ran out of local money you either paid an arm and a leg for more or moved on to a different country. At some point all the money ran out and you then headed for the nearest airport or ferry terminal and hoped the parents were pleased to see you again
Or maybe like Sambo’s they try to make it somehow less racist but it’s still bad. IIRC Sambo’s mascot wasn’t a little black boy but a little brownish/whiteish kid with a turban. Of course it was still bad but maybe all Coon Chicken has to do is change their mascot to a literal Raccoon at some point and that makes them okay for the 70s, though I still feel they are cursed with that history.
I’m actually of Czech descent myself, from Nebraska, but our Kolaches are fruit ones and are more circular. However, I like the idea. We used to have a really good restaurant in Omaha called Bohemian Cafe. More of a sit down restaurant but maybe a place like that gets big in places like Texas or Chicago and becomes a kind of a Central European chain like a kind of better Outback or Benihana. Granted that might ruin such a place.
Australian Olivia Newton-John starts an Australian themed restaurant chain centred around Australian food such as Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile, Vegemite. It become a hit in America and comes to rival McDonalds and KFC. It introduces Americans to real food such as curries and real beer such as Coopers.
Another one I could think of is Minnie Pearl’s Chicken. I think she even had a few KFC investors help run it. Given how popular the Grand Old Opry was, it might do quite well. Or it’s a regional chain like Waffle House.
"We're racist, but we're not that racist...We're only racist against Indians now!"
There are apparently a few
But you’re probably better off brewing your own in terms of ease of acquisition.
Again, not some “special sauce” to make good beer - it was literally just a bunch of price controls
One of the reasons why American craft breweries like heavily hopped styles is because they’re forgiving (hops cover up the flavor of the beer, including off flavors that stem from the brewers not being able to control the fermentation)
Yeah, they were kind of weird. What’s strange too is that the name of the Restaurant was the combination of the founders names: Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnettt or Sam and Bo’s. Apparently they only went with the name to capitalize on the story. Why they didn’t just go with another name is beyond me, especially being it was started in California.
My dad did the "home brew" thing for a while, back when I was in high school... think he still has all the equipment, though finding it now may be a little problematic...
Locally here, the only places I can remember that could loosely be called "fast food" that served beer were "Frank 'n Steins", which was a long-time staple in shopping mall food courts (draught beer only IIRC) and a small chain called "Taco Loco" (not to be confused with the larger El Loco Taco) which had food sort of on par with Del Taco (ie a bit better than Taco Bell
)....As far as licensing goes, it's not usually that difficult a matter to serve alcohol for on-premises consumption only....
They don’t serve beer anymore, but we have also had a shift in our beer drinking habits.
Sambo in the children tale was not black, he was south Indian. Zambo was used in Spanish America to describe mixed Native American and African people.
Me and much of my family have homebrewed for an long time. I recommend it wholeheartedly: the community is incredibly friendly and welcoming, you can brew things that you cannot really buy in USA (or anywhere else for than matter) and for incredibly low prices. Also, it has never been easier to get into the scene. If your father got rid of the equipment or else didn’t use stainless steel equipment, you can get a decent setup off Amazon for a very reasonable price.
I first heard of Greggs a few days ago watching a YouTube about people from the US and the UK doing a food swap. Actually, I think Greggs would do well in the US - it would fit a niche similar to Panera Bread.