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Old Jan 23, 2013 | 3:04 pm
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Originally Posted by BigBopper
Not sure if they do a hard sell everywhere but they're actually a national chain. I probably would have told the waitress I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french fried potato, big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer just to see her reaction.

I always wondered what Jimmy Buffett felt about a place named after one of his songs competing with his own chain.
Wikipedia tells me that Buffett's Margaritaville Holdings LLC licensed the name to them. It might be a shrewd business decision to make his own restaurants look really "authentic" in comparison.
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