Thanks to Sue, who posted in the comments yesterday that the reason we’re not getting a Smokey Bones in Leominster is due to a demographics issue. As in, we’re not rib-eatin’ people? My son, who doesn’t eat ANYTHING that isn’t pasta-based or chicken McNugget-based, eats the pulled pork at Smokey Bones.
Where are these demographics coming from, anyway? Who exactly do they talk to? I would love to see what they say about us, that we can add a crappy Italian chain to a town/area that has a lot of GREAT Italian restaurants already (Il Forno, anyone? Monty’s? Gondola, Il Camino, Cristina’s, that place down next to Newbury Comics at the mall? Lidio’s? (Are they considered Italian?) I know I’m forgetting some – the place at the corner of Summer Street and John Fitch Highway in Fitchburg for one, I can’t remember the name). So that we really needed an Olive Garden (blech) but not a Smokey Bones is ridiculous.
It makes me feel like we were just dismissed as a place where people have no taste and just want the same things over and over. I find that very insulting. You put any good restaurant in a prime location like that, and they will do a booming business.
Grrr.
