The Spady family is polling on its website to determine where to locate its sixth Dick's Drive-In restaurant. (They haven't added a location since 1974 when the Queen Anne restaurant opened.) The problem is the menu of potential locations is too limited. It is restricted to the Seattle metro area.
Now, I know they don't do chicken and they don't do fish, as Jim Spady would say.....but how about opening the menu of site locations outside Seattle? Specifically, Olympia.
Since the first grill in the famous Seattle burger stands fired up in 1954, the Spady family has served hundred of millions (if not billions) of hamburgers, fresh cut French fires and hand-dipped milkshakes to generations. (I think my family alone has consumed about one percent of the burgers, fries and shakes in the 56 years its five drive-ins have been around.
So I don't care if Dick's ever introduces a chicken burger or a halibut sandwich, but how about making the next "Dick's Special" a location in Olympia? (I even have some land to sell them and I'd make them a heck of a deal on it just to come here.)
I need your help. Forget about voting for one of the three choices on their website. Contact them and write in Olympia.
Look---if Vancouver's Burgerville can expand as far north as Centrallia, Dick's can certainly come as far south to Olympia.
Don C. Brunell, President (DonB@awb.org)
