Tuesday, May 26, 2009

parlez-vous franchise?

a (partial?) list of burger chains miraculously supported by the people of new york city:

-(home of the) goodburger
-better burger
-burger heaven
-new york city burger company
-brgr

and now there's more than one
-shake shack

of course i've left out the obvious
mcdonaldsburgerkingwendys&everythingelseyoucanfindontheturnpike.

and that's when we already had the corner bistro (still my favorite) and several
-jackson hole[s]

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and now for frozen yogurt (i'm pretty sure the latter three aren't even chains, which makes you wonder, how could it be profitable to open your own independent frozen yogurt place amid the existing brambles of pink berries?):

-tasti d-lite
-the lite choice
-pinkberry
-red mango
-berrywild
-flurt
-crazy bananas
-yogurtland
-yogurt yogurt

(can you spot the bogus one? just kidding they all really exist.)

yay capitalism?

NB: of these, crazy bananas (on 32nd between madison and 5th) is easily the best, but they recently remodeled and i have to say, i preferred the vibe when the decor consisted of creepy bobble-heads and a glass-encased carved wood penis collection.)