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Old Posted Dec 9, 2008, 6:25 PM
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Utah's Hard Rock Cafe

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Hardrock, as a company, is losing millions of dollars every year. The main reason is their food and service sucks. Combine those two things and a restaurant will fail.
     
     
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Their food in L.A. was pretty sucky too. I've had much better in the way of burgers etc. Infact, my friends and I always choose Jerry's famous Deli across the street instead. The Hard Rock in L.A. was in a perfect location too. You know the food isn't bringing them back when a prime location has to close it's doors.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 9, 2008, 8:28 PM
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Wow I had no idea there was so many of them closing. Even big cities like LOS ANGELES and DALLAS are losing them. Who would of thought.

And I thought HRC was doing ok for themselves.

Thanks for the list.

I guess it's hard to rock when the Dow is looking more and more like a successful contestant on the Biggest Loser....

Did that make sense?
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Old Posted Dec 9, 2008, 9:03 PM
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I guess it's hard to rock when the Dow is looking more and more like a successful contestant on the Biggest Loser....

Did that make sense?

LOL, I got it.
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Dude Hard Rock SUCKS! And this is difficult for me to confess as a rock connoisseur, cuz the vibe of the restaurant fits in well with Trolley Square. Their menu is seriously lacking in anything but chicken(nasty chicken)- so I tried something called a 'pig sandwich'- yes I know the name shoulda tipped me off- total mistake! Maybe Hard Rock can team up with Detroit for a government bailout. With their powers combined they might be 'too big to fail' . This is one Salt Laker that won't miss the Hard Rock, their outdated business model or their putrid products. The only thing that resturant ever had going for it was the Summer local band shows with X 96.
     
     
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I wonder if Cheesecake Factory would be interested in that location now? Their new Fashion Place site has had phenominal success. Infact, more than they had anticipated. They're looking to open another site along the Wasatch, but I wonder if CCC would be more to their liking? What do you guys think? Gateway, CCC....

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I wonder if Cheesecake Factory would be interested in that location now? Their new Fashion Place site has had phenominal success. Infact, more than they had anticipated. They're looking to open another site along the Wasatch, but I wonder if CCC would be more to their liking? What do you guys think? Gateway, CCC....

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I think that Cheesecake factory would do much better at a location like the Gateway. They seem to cater to suburban types who like to think that they are eating someplace special and upscale when really they are just eating at an expensive version of Chilis. It doesn't seem like they'd have as much appeal with the Whole Foods, organic, eco-friendly, co-op vibe that seems to be forming at Trolley Square.
     
     
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Am I the only one who thinks the Chee-cake Factory building looks ugly? Just the way it is so close to the Fashion Place Mall. I think it's actually connected to the mall.

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Their menu is seriously lacking in anything but chicken(nasty chicken)
Yeah, even the zangy Mac and Chee I had their once had chicken in it.
     
     
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The only thing that resturant ever had going for it was the Summer local band shows with X 96.
Tuesday Tunes at Trolley? Those were pretty cool free concerts that they had going there. Funny thing about those is that X-96 and Hard Rock were sponsors - and they had to be talked into doing those. The bands performed for free - some as a favor, some to get publicity. But it worked and there were a lot people that went to the shows.

Stuff like that is what Trolley Square needs to keep doing to bring people through the doors
     
     
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Am I the only one who thinks the Chee-cake Factory building looks ugly? Just the way it is so close to the Fashion Place Mall. I think it's actually connected to the mall.

I don't think it's ugly. It's different that's for sure. But you know what, I'm still yet to go there. My wife and I keep putting it off. I've never been inside. Is it nice? Does it just look like it's connected to the mall or can you get to the Cheesecake factory from the Mall itself?




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I think it would be good if there would a another Cheesecake factory since this one is always busy. Having one at City Creek Center would be fine with me as long as the building looks urban.
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It looks like you found one of my Cheesecake Factory pics on flickr. Here are the other 2 that I took.



     
     
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Am I the only one who thinks the Chee-cake Factory building looks ugly? Just the way it is so close to the Fashion Place Mall. I think it's actually connected to the mall.
While its faux arabic-mediterranian-egyptian-parisian style may not be ugly to some, it certainly doesn't mesh well with anything else in the area, especially the adjacent mall.

I'd much rather have had its exterior more closely match the new Nordstrom building and create some sort of cohesive design for the mall. I don't mind the cheesecake factory doing whatever the hell design they want on the inside, but I'm no fan of its current exterior.

Maybe it will all come together when finished, but it looks pretty out-of-place right now. (Cheesecake Factory is the yellow building at the bottom)

     
     
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As a side note, the style of the Cheesecake Factory is the same whether you're in Anaheim, Salt Lake, or here in Sacramento. It's like they bought out a Mardi Gras factory and modified it to out fit all the CF's in the country... or at least west of the Rockies...

Another side note: strange that they close the LA Hard Rock and not the Sacramento Hard Rock... in fact, the Sacto location is getting upgraded beginning in 2009 (new smaller guitar, Times Square style plasma/lcd screens) as part of the Downtown Plaza reconstruction.
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As far as the style of the Cheesecake Factory's building, it's different depending on the location. I'm not sure exactly the pyschology behind what design goes where. In L.A Central, (Brentwood, Farmer's Market, Sherman Oaks) the design fits the overall ambiance of the village or surrounding buildings. As you go outside of Central and toward suburbs like Rancho Cucamonga, they're more like the one at Fashion Place.
     
     
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I wonder if Cheesecake Factory would be interested in that location now? Their new Fashion Place site has had phenominal success. Infact, more than they had anticipated. They're looking to open another site along the Wasatch, but I wonder if CCC would be more to their liking? What do you guys think? Gateway, CCC....

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I thought that i had read somewhere that Cheesecake Factory had already spoken for the Tower 1 reasturant spot for CCC. I think this would be a great fit for them as well with the amount of traffic they would help to also create for the mall. Right now Cheesecake Factory has a following in which people will travel far and wide between to eat there.
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The two in the Cleveland area look very similar to the Fashion Place one. They too are both in the suburbs. From what strippadam said I would hope that if they do go into CCC they will make it fit more into the surrounding urban setting.

I think they would do just fine at Trolley, I think they would thrive in the Hard Rock location.
     
     
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I truly hope that the restaurants in the CCC are not all national chain restaurants. I hope we get some local variety and perhaps something a little more quality/gourmet then your typical Applebees/Chilis/CF
     
     
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I thought that i had read somewhere that Cheesecake Factory had already spoken for the Tower 1 reasturant spot for CCC. I think this would be a great fit for them as well with the amount of traffic they would help to also create for the mall. Right now Cheesecake Factory has a following in which people will travel far and wide between to eat there.
I think that definately sounds like the Cheesecake Factory mentality. They love being next to an upscale retail complex. Wow, that would be a great location at the base of Tower 1. It would be a good crowd generator for the corner there.
     
     
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I thought that i had read somewhere that Cheesecake Factory had already spoken for the Tower 1 reasturant spot for CCC. I think this would be a great fit for them as well with the amount of traffic they would help to also create for the mall. Right now Cheesecake Factory has a following in which people will travel far and wide between to eat there.

Really? That would be a awesome spot for a Cheesecake Factory.
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