Closings and Openings in Fairmont

[vakkotaur]

One of the things I did when I returned home from Florida was stop in at the local Hardee's and have a roast beef sandwich. I normally do not go to Hardee's, or to any fast food place except Subway nowadays, but I had had a desire for their roast beef on my trip back. Alas, I seem to have this unfortunate ability to pick a Hardee's that, for reasons unknown, doesn't have the one thing worth stopping there for on the menu. That only made the desire worse, of course.

But going to the local Hardee's isn't an option anymore. The Fairmont Hardee's closed without explanation. This came a couple months after the local Taco Bell closed quite suddenly. That was before they had troubles with food poisonings in the news. It was rather bewildering as the place was evidently earning its keep quite well.

A Hardee's in St. Peter (north of Mankato) closed a while ago. The place is open again, but now it's an Arby's. There is speculation, but no confirmation, that will happen in Fairmont as well.

The opening is also a bit bewildering. Fairmont, for reasons unfathomable save perhaps for ubiquity, now has a Starbucks. I haven't gone there. I was amused by a bit of slang that calls the place "Fivebucks" as, supposedly, there's not much you can get there that won't cost you at least that much.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

There was a long story line in the Brenda Starr comic strip a few years back about a chain of coffee shops called "Bigbucks". They were smuggling gems and cocaine in the hundred pound sacks of coffee beans, if I recall correctly...

Perhaps that accounts for the prices. Certainly taste does not. Starbucks is the worst coffee I've ever tasted, bar none.