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Hard to see what their corporate argument is for why people should patronize them. They are slow, more expensive than the competition, and they don't really offer anything that you can't get elsewhere for a better price or with better service. Freddy's for example offers exactly the same thing, - and by exactly I mean in the same way that Krystal and White Castle are exactly the same thing - but with what is IMO much better and faster service, cleaner restaurants, and you aren't asked to tip.

Thanks but no thanks. South Florida can have Trump all to themselves.

Apologies for the cross-post but I posted in the 'Bars and Restaurants' forum. What was I thinking? ***** The Steak-n-Shake's on E. Colonial and Mills have closed. I'm surprised it took this long. I stopped going years ago because of the ridiculous wait times whether dine-in or drive-thru. And when you did eat-in, having to tip after waiting for half an hour to be handed a soggy hamburger and fires just kind of added insult to injury. Unfortunate that the staff will lose their jobs, but IMO good riddance to a sub-par dining experience.

The Steak-n-Shake's on E. Colonial and Mills have closed. I'm surprised it took this long. I stopped going years ago because of the ridiculous wait times, whether dine-in or drive-thru. And when you chose to eat-in, having to tip after waiting for half an hour to be handed a soggy hamburger and fires just kind of added insult to injury. Unfortunate that the staff will lose their jobs, but IMO good riddance to a sub-par dining experience.

Must be a month-to-month or short term lease as the mall's owner has been warehousing spaces - that is not renewing leases when they come up [e.g. Express] - for nearly two years now, so that they can more easily and more quickly demolish the mall when their plans are finally approved.

Any jetbridge that can be raised high enough to service a 747 can service an A380, however inefficient that may be. What makes an A380 gate an A380 gate is a third, elevated jetbridge to service the upper deck and enough space allocated on the apron to safely fit the A380's 260' wingspan. Those double jetbridge gates you see in your phase II rendering aren't for the A380, they are for the flexibility to be able use both jetbridges to speed up loading and unloading for the 787, A330/340, A350, 777, and 747 when needed and to then be able to use as two separate gates for smaller aircraft the rest of the time. The two-story enclosed protrusions that connect the jetbridges to the terminal are for sterile security and contain a two-way ramp system so that the same jetbridge can load international and domestic passengers for departure from the upper level of the terminal and then, with the closing of a door, be used to unload international passengers directly into the lower level for customs and immigration. An A380 specific gate has all of that but also has a third, elevated jetbridge in order to service the upper deck of the A380. The phase I and II renderings show only three A380 specific gates in the original phase I, all at the three points of the triangle of the phase I terminal's central atrium. The expanded phase I/phase II renderings add no additional A380 gates. And again, I have no idea if those three original phase I A380 gates will actually be built. Edited to add: Now that I look more closely at that newer phase I/II rendering, you can see that the A380 gate that had been in the lower left corner of the central atrium triangle has already been eliminated.

The post I was responding to asked about A380-specific gates. I can't see those additional gates, which were added to the first phase a year or so ago, containing any more A380 gates.

Should be セブンイレブン, since '92 anyway.

After EK announced last year that they were canceling a ~40 plane order, Airbus officially announced in February that the A380 line would be closed down completely no later than early 2021 after the last already-paid-for order is fulfilled. Airbus was 20 years too late to the VLA game. The rather pathetic renderings that have been released show at least three, but I have no idea whether or not they will actually be built.

Initial funding for the gate, just as widening various runway and taxiway radii years ago in “preparation” for the A380 in general, came about mostly as a response to Virgin toying with the idea of buying the A380. And, as Virgin’s largest presence outside of Heathrow and Gatwick is Orlando, it was not unreasonable to assume that VS would eventually send the A380 here. No one [though actually lots of people] predicted that Airbus would abandon the A380 as quickly as they did. I suspect that after years of delays, MCO went ahead and finally built the gate last year because of a combination of the majority of the funds having been already appropriated and having landed Emirates, the world’s largest A380 operator, providing a better than even chance of actually needing the gate for regular commercial service, even if only from time to time on a peak season or aircraft substitution basis.

No, I am saying that I know that the two A380s contracted by the U.K. government to bring stranded Brits home really isn’t a commercial service

Air quotes as in "it wasn't really a commercial service". And yes, I understand that you were kidding.

Notice that I put "first commercial service" in air quotes.

It's 90, 90A, and 90B. Bi-level, triple jetbridge, just finished a few months ago and built specifically to accommodate the A380.

MCOs twitter feed just published notice that the U.K. government paid to send two a380s here to pick up all the Brits stranded by the collapse of Thomas Cook. They observed that this was the very first commercial a380 service at MCO, showed a photo of one of the a380s pulling into Airside 4...and chose to not take any photos of "the very first commercial a380 service" using the new, $50M, never used as such, bi-level three jetbridge a380 gate.

...until ~2001, when they merged with/acquired Yorkshire [A&W, LJS, etc.] and became Yum Brands. Yum then sold A&W and LJS in 2010 or so. Which I suppose is why there are no more new KCF/LJS/A&W multi-brand restaurants like the one on Michigan

The cafe that occupied the Rogers Kiene Building for a couple of decades until FBCO moved away had the best French fries in town. Their burgers weren't bad either.

The "Julian"? They're making it impossible to market this building. No one is going to live in a place called "The Julian". It's like naming a restaurant "Hepatitis". Call it "The Dewey", that's a good name. Call it "The Duncan".

Tallahassee? Sounds more like it's coming as much if not more from D.C. and Matt "when I'm not driving under the influence I'm inviting infamous white supremacists as my plus-one to Trump SOTU speeches" Gaetz.

I have no idea. There are all kinds of rumors and speculation about how they will cope. Not being an expert and not having any "inside" sources, I would tend towards an Occam's Razor view, that they aren't going to be making any bold or radical moves re: their fleet and are holding out hope that the FAA re-certifies the Max 8 sooner rather than later, like before the holiday travel season soon.

Alaska's flights to San Francisco and San Diego are routes they inherited and kept when they bought Virgin America.

These routes were moderately profitable. Cutting them is a direct result of the grounding of the 737 Max 8. With the grounding of the Max 8, WN has ~40-50 fewer planes than they need to operate their full schedule, so they are cutting routes and frequencies and reallocating resources - meaning planes - to routes where they can make the most money with those limited resources.

Ya, well, you know, it's a Raddison. So it's pretty good.

El Al isn't worried about price resistance. This new service is a total of 11 flights. Not 11 a month, or 11 a season, but 11 flights in total. This really isn't even a new service. El Al is basically just filling some slack utilization they have with the 789 in July and August.

Gabriel's Subs on Curry Ford has closed down. Wonder if the franchisees packed it in and moved back to Manchester. Including the years they were next to the old DMV, that Gabriel's has been there almost 30 years. Have to wonder if Wawa did them in. I preferred the taste of Gabriel's, but at $10 for a "large" sub, Wawa gave you as much food for literally half the price.