Long John Silvers
Somewhat newer restaurants kept the basic structural design and theme, but eliminated most of the interior features. The company purchased it from Yorkshire Global Restaurants, which originally acquired it from Fleet Boston Bank after its having gained control of the restaurants due to bankruptcy.Long John Silver s, Inc. For example, the chain used to offer small chicken drumsticks which they called peg-legs. The restaurant, which has over 1200 units worldwide, is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc.
The parent corporation of the chain s Canadian franchises, which have no connection with A&W in Canada, is Priszm. There was one Long John Silver s Store located in Australia, in Kings Park, a suburb of Sydney, NSW. The design (Cape Cod style) of the stores was similar to American stores of that time period.
These locations were closed within a year and two years, respectively, due to poor sales. The chain operates as LJS in New Zealand. The restaurant is now re-branded as a KFC. There are a couple of stores located in Taiwan. .
Only a dozen or so, now called Jerry s J-Boy Restaurants, are still open in Kentucky and southern Indiana. LJS stores were largely unaffected by this move.
By the late 1980s there was also a location in London, Ontario, but by the early 1990s some locations began to close and by the mid 1990s only a lone store in Waterloo was operating, which closed shortly thereafter. In 2006 a store was opened by Yum! Brands in Woodbridge, Ontario, a northern suburb of Toronto, and a joint store with KFC, which only offered a partial LJS menu, was opened in Pickering Town Centre Mall, in Pickering, an eastern suburb of Toronto. An LJS restaurant was operating as far up as Whangarei, but closed due to poor sales.
The contemporary, multi-brand outlets do not use the blue roofed Cape Cod-style buildings. Long John Silvers NZ stores use a variety of premium New Zealand fish including Hoki, Red Snapper, Dory and Tarakihi.
is a United States-based fast-food restaurant that specializes in seafood. The restaurant however did not do particularly well becoming run down very quickly, which has stalled their expansion (though the UK is the largest consumer of Fish and Chips in the world, they also have the largest number of independent restaurants also, therefore Long John Silver s had no foothold on the competition).
The chain began as a division of Jerrico, Inc., which also operated Jerry s Restaurants, a chain of family restaurants which also began in Lexington, and was very similar to Big Boy restaurants. When the company was sold in 1989, the Long John Silver s concept had far outgrown the Jerry s chain.
The restaurant also co-operates with local businesses McCain, Sealord and Coca-Cola New Zealand. There are currently 31 stores operating in Singapore, more than any other single city in the world. Long John Silver s broke into the United Kingdom market in 2006. Originally, the chain had a much larger focus on a pirate theme.
Lone stores were located in Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph and Stratford. They had one branch in Walsall, near the second biggest city, Birmingham.
Currently, 14 LJS locations are open in New Zealand, ranging from Wellsford (Upper Auckland), through Auckland & Manukau, and as far down as Christchurch. Jerry s was located in the Midwest and South.
Most early restaurants also featured separate entrance and exit doors, a corridor-like waiting line area, food heaters that were transparent so customers could see the food waiting to be served, and a bell by the exit which customers could ring if we did it well. Many of these buildings had dock-like walkways lined with pilings and thick ropes that wrapped around the building exterior. (The original location, on Southland Drive just off Nicholasville Road, was previously a seafood restaurant named the Cape Codder, which accounts for the Cape Cod style of LJS’s early chain restaurants.) Until its bankruptcy in 1998, Long John Silver s was a privately owned corporation.
The stores also offered a limited selected of beer and wine. The menu also included seafoods not offered today, such as clams, oysters, scallops, and Peg Legs (which were parts of chicken wings but named in keeping with the pirate theme).
The name and concept were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson s book Treasure Island. The first restaurant was opened in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky. All locations continue to have the ring if we did well bell by the exit, a feature that was later copied by Arby s.
Yum! announced in 2005 that it would expand the multi-brand concept and pair Long John Silver s with KFC, just as they had paired Taco Bell and Pizza Hut along with A&W, and Long John Silver s has since been paired with all of Yum! s other chains. (Many original LJS franchisees were also operators of Jerry s locations.) Earlier restaurants were known for their Cape Cod-style buildings, blue roofs, small steeples, and nautically-themed decorations such as seats made to look like nautical flags.
Their menus were broader than American stores of today as they included a small selection of salads as meals, some including boiled shrimp. The burgers and seafood varied from the American menu to make it a more classic Australian Menu, although still taking on A&W Root Beer and its logo as a partner.
Most of Jerry s 46 remaining locations were converted to Denny s by the new owners, with a handful staying under the original name, usually because there was already an existing Denny s nearby. Yum! originally combined many of the franchises locations with its chain of A&W Restaurants, and most new Long John Silver s locations in the first few years after the acquisition were co-branded with A&W.
In 2007, the restaurant was shut down, due to poor sales. Beginning in the late 1970s, a lone franchise operated four stores in the mid-southwestern area of Ontario.
