Sunday, April 23, 2006
Popeyes
Thanks to Phantom Gourmet’s annual fast food episode, we have learned that there is a Popeyes near us. Well, at least near the office, and near our old place. It’s in Brockton, in the Westgate Mall, by one of the entrances nearest Old Navy.
Mmmm… Popeyes.
There used to be one in Fitchburg, right off of route 2. A friend who lunched there regularly whenever he went to the registry of deeds in Fitchburg introduced me to them, and subsequently I stopped a few times on my way between eastern and western Massachusetts. Last time I was in Fitchburg, a few years ago, for a lunch meeting with the makers of TurboLaw software at Slattery’s Restaurant, highly recommended, I happened to drive that way back to route 2 and saw Popeye’s had closed. How sad. Even though I was unlikely to get a chance to go there again, and it was too far to make a point of it.
There are also three in Rhode Island, all owned by the same franchisee as the Brockton store, called Deliver Me Chicken.
Now what we need is a Jack In The Box almost 827 miles closer to us than the nearest one, in Statesville, NC.
At least there’s an Arby’s only a few towns away, in the Emerald Square Mall.