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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.
Founded in 1969 by Jim Patterson, Long John Silver's is a fast-food seafood chain best known for its battered and fried fish and nautically themed buildings. Long John Silver's has struggled to ...
By March 2002, the Tricon-Yorkshire multibranding test consisted of 83 KFC/A&Ws, six KFC/Long John Silver's and three Taco Bell/Long John Silver's and was considered successful by the companies. [16] In 2001, KFC started test restaurants in Austin, Texas, called "Wing Works", a chicken wing line sold with one of a few flavored sauces.
A&W merged with Long John Silver's to form Yorkshire Global Restaurants based in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2000, Yorkshire agreed to test multi-branded locations with Tricon Global Restaurants . By March 2002, the Yorkshire-Tricon multi-branding test consisted of 83 KFC/A&Ws, six KFC/Long John Silver's, and three Taco Bell/Long John Silver's and ...
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 ...
The Jerry's restaurants were mostly located in Kentucky and Indiana. Jerrico sold the chain in order to focus on its Long John Silver's brand. [17] Following the sale, Great American Restaurants stated that it did not intend to convert the entire Jerry's chain into Denny's. [18]
Two years later, the Fazoli's system was established. Fazoli's started with five locations in the Lexington, Kentucky, area. Fazoli's was originally managed by Jerrico Inc. but later was put up for sale and sold to Duskin Co. Ltd so that Jerrico Inc. could focus on Long John Silver's.
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 ...