ok
i found out why they won't come to los angeles
they never wanted to franchise to anyone, and the owner has a psychotic aversion to rats and prickly pears
the court cases against TOWER were dragged out as long as humanly possible
and then, at the end, the copy cat guy admitted everything--even told how he had secret pictures taken of the inner castle dimensions with smugglered spy cameras
and how he purposely copied everything
and was given a few restrictions and made to pay a quite reasonable fee, (350 or 450 dollars), to CASTLE, for every TOWER he opened
and i saw no mention of exclusive territories or anything
so, essentially, he ended up with a situation where he had ultimately forced CASTLE to give him de facto franchising rights to do a chain of restaurants that looked like white castles and followed the same business techniques
and had a comically similar slogan
but, either by court order or design
didn't serve the slider
or anything much like it
just sorta another round dry regular sized burger
like everyone else
and they don't exist any more
"in the long haul, the universe tends to unfold the way it should"
-line from the harold and kumar movie
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