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February 01, 2005
Other Restaurants That Need to Open Up in Seattle
My last entry on Del Taco in Seattle resulted in a flood of reader mail. HAHAHAHA! Just kidding. But seriously, it got me to thinking about a lot of the restaurants that ought to be here, but aren't.
Obviously, Del Taco is one of them. It IS the second largest taco chain in America. And other people agree with me, that we need a Del Taco here.
Another restaurant that would be nice here is one that often haunts my dreams. I haven't had one for a while, probably because I haven't been in California since the summer, but I have a recurring dream where I find out that In-N-Out has opened up a restaurant here, only to discover that it is NOT in fact In-N-Out, but some sort of bizarre imposter. Usually they will serve, for example, Dubble Dubbles, or in my latest dream, they only served pancakes and breakfast. Sometimes I will notice afterwards that there is a clever misspelling, like Inn-n-Out or In & Out.
In each and every dream, however, I get very excited about my find and take Jennifer there, only to look like a total idiot. In real life, the opening of an In-n-Out in Seattle is virtually impossible. The restaurants are all family owned, and ingredients are shipped in fresh, not frozen. That means everything is put on a refrigerated truck and sent to the appropriate store. Seattle is too far away from any other In-N-Out to be included in this distribution chain.
That's not to say I wouldn't still get my hopes up. A year and a half ago, right before Jennifer and I were married, we saw an In-N-Out semi-truck on an overpass in Federal Way. It drove by so quickly it almost seemed unreal, but sure enough we'd both seen it.
What it was doing here one could only speculate, as no one at In-N-Out corporate was willing to answer my questions, but someone at the Redding store did mention that there had been an In-N-Out cookout in Seattle a while back. Maybe he was right... or maybe the company was conducting secret trial runs for their future expansion plans.
All right, all right, I know I'm living in fantasy land.
But there's another fast food chain that is delicious, unique, and even homegrown, yet not one single restaurant has opened in the Seattle area.
I'm talking about, of course, Burgerville. Burgerville is a Portland area tradition, and it makes some of the best fast food imaginable. It would almost certainly be a hit in Seattle, yet the furthest north this chain has dared to venture is Centralia.
My memories of Burgerville date back almost to the very beginning, when my grandma would take us there as kids. Even as an adult, when I went down to Oregon I'd usually end up taking grandma out to Burgerville, and I remember very distinctly the day that I took her and Jennifer.
There's good news though, as it has been reported that Burgerville is looking to expand to the Seattle area. That would keep delicious Tillamook Cheeseburgers in my tummy.
Of course, I'd still miss Grandma.
Posted by March at February 1, 2005 12:55 PM
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