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Long John Silver's was founded in 1969 by Jim Patterson in Lexington, Kentucky. [4] [5] [6] The original location, on 301 Southland Drive, was previously the Cape Codder seafood carry-out restaurant.
The foreign expansion—particularly that of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut—was cited in the firm's January 18, 2011, announcement of its intention to dispose of the A&W and Long John Silver's chains. Both of those chains also suffered from poor sales, and had fewer locations compared to the other chains in the Yum! Brands portfolio.
The 200-lap 105.2 miles (169.3 km) race is currently known as Long John Silver's 200 for sponsorship reasons. In 2020, as part of schedule realignment , the fall race became the only Truck Series race at the track as NASCAR decided to give the track one Xfinity Series race instead.
When Joe Hayhoe drove onto Douglas Avenue, he expected tears of sadness at the sight of a closed restaurant. Instead he found joy.
Seafood chain Long John Silver's recently announced that its entire menu now has zero grams of trans fat due to a transition from partially hydrogenated cooking oils to 100 percent soybean oil in ...
A since-closed Arthur Treacher's co-branded with a Nathan's Famous in downtown Pittsburgh. The chain is the namesake of Arthur Treacher (1894–1975), an English character actor typecast as "the perfect butler" for his performances as Jeeves, a butler in several Shirley Temple films in additon to the role of Constable Jones in Mary Poppins from Walt Disney Productions. [5]
Long John Silver, also known as Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island, is a 1954 American-Australian adventure film about the eponymous pirate Long John Silver, with Robert Newton repeating his starring role from Walt Disney's 1950 feature Treasure Island.
Long John Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor—or mockery—of his former captain, [3] who generally perches on Silver's shoulder, and is known to chatter pirate or seafaring phrases like "Pieces of Eight", and "Stand by to go about". Silver uses the parrot as another means of gaining Jim's trust, by telling the boy all manner of ...