Avast ye mateys! 'Tis time to set sail for adventure, and delicious fried delicacies. This episode on Seemingly Unrelated we are talking about the once and future global fast food chain Long John Silvers.
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Footnotes:
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‘World War I Hospital - Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine (U.S. National Park Service)’.https://www.nps.gov/fomc/learn/historyculture/world-war-i-hospital.htm.
Fitzharris, Lindsey. The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. Penguin UK, 2022.
Foy, Charles. ‘Sewing a Safety Net: Scarborough’s Maritime Community, 1747-1765’. Faculty Research & Creative Activity, 1 June 2012. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/history_fac/13.
‘History’. Accessed 21 November 2024. https://achh.army.mil/history/book-wwi-militaryhospitalsintheus-chapter16.
Mathis, Jessica. ‘Long John Silvers “Best Place to Work,” New Location with “Drive-Thru of the Future” - Food & Dining Magazine’, 23 January 2018. https://foodanddine.com/long-john-silvers-best-place-work-new-location-drive-thru-future/.
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Stice, Joel. ‘The Untold Truth Of Long John Silver’s’. Mashed, 30 October 2018. https://www.mashed.com/136693/the-untold-truth-of-long-john-silvers/.
Taylor, Yutong Yuan, Kate. ‘10 Companies You’ve Never Heard of Control More than 50 of the Biggest Restaurant Chains in the World’. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/who-owns-taco-bell-arbys-burger-king-2019-3.
USA. ‘Long John Silver’s Franchise Costs, Fees & FDD’. https://www.franchisedirect.com/foodfranchises/long-john-silvers-franchise-07016/ufoc/.
Yawen, Lu. ‘Bell of the Ball: A Tribute to Long John Silver’s, Fast Food Underdog’. RICE (blog), 8 August 2022. https://www.ricemedia.co/long-john-silvers-ljs-singapore/.
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