Types of business specific to a state/town (NOT RESTAURANTS DON'T POST RESTAURAN

[Scott5114]

Quincy's which is buffet style Steak Themed restaurant,  was once all over the Southeast.  Now has only a location in Florence, SC on the US 52 Service Road at I-95.

a local chain restaurant isn't what I'm looking for, because every town of a certain size has restaurants

[NE2]

Did anyone mention how Florida is full of Wawas?

[Rothman]

I haven't liked a thread this much in a long while.

[tdindy88]

I'll bite to see if this is what you're looking for. But in my hometown of Indianapolis there are numerous auto racing teams and businesses headquartered here. Which would make sense since the city is home to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500.

If I understand it correctly, I believe North Carolina (maybe more around Charlotte) is similar in respect to NASCAR racing teams being based there.

[thenetwork]

Uranus Fudge???

[1995hoo]

Liquor stores are not a type of business specific to any given area. But a liquor store located in an Interstate highway's rest area is almost certainly unique to New Hampshire, insofar as I know. (I don't regard a duty-free shop right before the Canadian border as being equivalent to a rest area.)

[akt85]

Of course Florida is dotted with roadside citrus stands. Some citrus stands have a rack of tourist brochures but also call their business a welcome center/tourist info center.

[Rothman]

Now I'm wondering about northeastern sugar shacks/breakfast places, but I don't think broad categories count.

[LilianaUwU]

restaurants >:3

[roadman65]

Yeah my bad because someone before me posted on a forbidden topic.

Anyway the Soft Shell Crab Sandwiches on the Chesapeake Bay Shore in those communities is unique despite soft shell crabs are sold all over as no one makes em like they do in Maryland.

I'm referring to the product itself and not the restaurants that sell them.  BTW you can buy those in other places too like supermarkets etc.

[Scott5114]

'll bite to see if this is what you're looking for. But in my hometown of Indianapolis there are numerous auto racing teams and businesses headquartered here.

Yes, that's perfect. Most cities don't even have one auto racing team, much less several.

[CoreySamson]

I have two restaurant-related ones for Houston, but they aren't chain-specific.

1. The Houston area (more specifically the Brazosport area) is the only place in the world where I have seen Mexican restaurants that serve crawfish.
2. The Houston area also has a disproportionately large number of donut shops and a disproportionately small number of ice cream shops.

In my local area back home (the Brazosport area), probably the most unique type of business is the chemical plant industry. The area is home to the largest integrated chemical plant complex in the US (if not the world), and much of the area's traffic and lifestyle revolves around the plants. Yet there are no oil refineries in the area.

[Max Rockatansky]

'll bite to see if this is what you're looking for. But in my hometown of Indianapolis there are numerous auto racing teams and businesses headquartered here.

Yes, that's perfect. Most cities don't even have one auto racing team, much less several.

North Carolina has a fairly booming industry for racing teams.  Asheville had several when my dad's company was involved with sponsoring a Winston Cup car.

[gonealookin]

One example from Las Vegas (and probably Nevada as a whole; the Northern Nevada people will have to let me know) is chain fingerprinting services.

I know there are some of those in Reno, but they don't really advertise.  The only time I've been in one is when I was first applying for TSA PreCheck quite a few years ago.

The obvious one in Nevada is, uhhh...



Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas don't have the brothels, but Mound House in Lyon County, a short distance east of downtown Carson City on US 50, has several.

[Thing 342]

restauran

[Max Rockatansky]

restauran

This sounds like a line of robots RobCo Industries would have produced in Fallout deep lore.

[kphoger]

restauran

RESTAURAN

[hotdogPi]

In Russian, the word for "restaurant" looks like PECTOPAH.

P = R
C = S
H = N

Note the lack of a T at the end.

[kphoger]

Note the lack of a T at the end.

Croatian doesn't have it either:  restoran
Neither does Estonian:  restoran
Neither does Turkish:  restoran
Neither does Serbian:  ресторан
Neither does Urdu:  ریستوراں

Bulgarian has it, though:  ресторант

[Max Rockatansky]

In Russian, the word for "restaurant" looks like PECTOPAH.

P = R
C = S
H = N

Note the lack of a T at the end.

In Soviet Russia businesses are specific to you!

[PColumbus73]

There seems to be a cottage industry of Myrtle Beach welcome centers. I've never stopped at one and always wondered how they stayed in business, I assume they're funded by the Chamber of Commerce

Here in South Carolina you have Calabash seafood restaurants in the Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach area. Those seafood buffets you don't see many other places. Most of them have a couple hundred items because seafood is at the forefront of everything and they have every type.
 

Speaking of the seafood buffets, one thing that's always bothered me about them is how they don't tell you the pricing upfront.

EDIT: Beachwear stores in Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach. There's an unverified rumor that some of them are fronts for money laundering.

[GCrites]

A large swath of the U.S. did not have businesses that were specifically off-track betting centers. I don't know how many of these are left with casinos and sportsbook lounges all over the place since the parts of the country I have been to recently never had OTB locations.

[Rothman]

A large swath of the U.S. did not have businesses that were specifically off-track betting centers. I don't know how many of these are left with casinos and sportsbook lounges all over the place since the parts of the country I have been to recently never had OTB locations.

*NY enters the chat*

[TheCatalyst31]

A large swath of the U.S. did not have businesses that were specifically off-track betting centers. I don't know how many of these are left with casinos and sportsbook lounges all over the place since the parts of the country I have been to recently never had OTB locations.

Speaking of OTBs, I wonder if Illinois is the only state to have a specific road sign for OTBs. (It also has bars and restaurants with video slot/poker machines all over the place, but I don't think that's unique.)

[1995hoo]

restauran

RESTAURAN

The latter is at 112th & Broadway when one of the lights burns out.