Carrols Hamburgers

[tirolski]

As the franchisee of 1,000+ Burger Kings and Popeyes, Carrols has bigger fish (sorry, Sea Fillet Fish Sandwiches) to fry. I always thought that the idea mentioned on page 1 of this thread would be a winner: create a one-and-only Carrols restaurant in Syracuse where they offer all the old menu items and time-machine experience from the 60s and early 70s. Unfortunately, I'm sure there's a good reason why they haven't done it.

Carrols to be sold to Burger King for a billion in cash.

Burger King to buy Syracuse-based Carrol’s Restaurant group for $1 billion in cash

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Restaurant Brands International Inc., the parent company of Burger King, has come to an agreement with Syracuse-based Carrols Restaurant Group Inc. to buy them out …

www.localsyr.com

Man, that’s a lot of dough.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

a billion in cash.

Wow: 24,000 employees across the country? I assume that includes the people who work at 1,000+ Burger Kings? I wonder if it's considered one of the largest employers that's based in CNY?

I may have mentioned up-thread that when I moved back to Syracuse in 1988 for a couple years, I lived just a few blocks away from their James Street HQ in the Lincoln Hill neighborhood. I frequently rode my bike past their building wondering what was going on in there if they weren't making club burgers and triple-thick shakes. Clearly, they were making money -- lots of it.

 

[Harvey]

 

[jamesdeluxe]

I'm standing by for my monthly SEO commission.

 

[tirolski]

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Ya mispelled Carrols & the ole AI sends ya ta NYSkiBlogForum thingy .

 

[x10003q]

I'm standing by for my monthly SEO commission.

Prepare to stand for a long time.

 

[Harvey]

Prepare to stand for a long time.

I was looking for that NYer cartoon that shows the "check in the mail" orbiting the sun out beyond Pluto, but it had a stern warning about copyright infringement.