{"id":600,"date":"2006-11-09T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=600"},"modified":"2006-11-09T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T01:04:53","slug":"honest-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/11\/09\/honest-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does Long John Silver&#8217;s stay in business?\u00c2\u00a0 One of the Yum! brands, along with Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell, among others, the restaurant had $38M in net income in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia tells me that Yum! is in the process of pairing LJS with KFC, just as they&#8217;ve been pairing it with A&#038;W (another Yum! brand) since last year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never eaten at a Long John Silver&#8217;s, and that&#8217;s saying something.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve ventured into just about every fast food restaurant I&#8217;ve ever come across; certainly a guy who&#8217;s eaten a hot dog from a place called DW Butter-dipped Dogs wouldn&#8217;t turn his nose up at a little fried fish?\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I know that my abstinence is at least partly to blame on the fact that I knew a kid in high school who worked at LJS, and he used to do some unspeakable things with the fryer (well, they&#8217;re speakable, but you sure don&#8217;t feel so good for having spoken them).<\/p>\n<p>This all comes up as a result of seeing a commercial on the tube just now for some new dish at LJS.\u00c2\u00a0 Their TV spots always bring on the, &#8220;What?\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re still in business?&#8221; moment.\u00c2\u00a0 All I can figure is that the obvious success of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is supporting the LJS business.<\/p>\n<p>Do <em>you<\/em> eat there?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you know anyone who does?\u00c2\u00a0 No names&#8230;I&#8217;m only curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Long John Silver&#8217;s stay in business?\u00c2\u00a0 One of the Yum! brands, along with Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell, among others, the restaurant had $38M in net income in 2005. Wikipedia tells me that Yum! is in the process of pairing LJS with KFC, just as they&#8217;ve been pairing it with A&#038;W (another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-9G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}