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Re:A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style by mseebach on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @09:02AM (#878956)
It says they shut down to re-pave the parking lot. Sounds like something that has to be done every once in a while. Might be that the rouge franchise-taker just scheduled the re-pavement "conveniently".
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Re:A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style by Tichy on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @09:55AM (#879029)
Perhaps they just figured that most people would check out the new Wendy on it's opening day anyway, so they'd lose less business on that day than on any other day. That it ended up destroying the competition (if it did) could have been sheer luck.
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Re:A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style by joezydeco on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @09:33AM (#878994)
Oh, I'm not doubting that at all. It's ballsy, but very very smart.

I have a general rule not to visit a new restaurant for the first two weeks because of this exact same "meltdown" scenario.

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