Date:  Fri, 17 Nov 1995 13:49:44 -0600

From:  "Kathleen M. O'Neill" <koneil1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIC.EDU>

Subject: Re: POETS day



>Isn't this expression what the Poets restaurant chain is referring to? I

>had always assumed that the name of the restaurant was a take-off on

>Fridays, a similar kind of restaurant that appeared shortly before Poets

>did. Now that I think about it, I'm not positive that Poets is a chain.

>But I assumed when it opened in Jackson (MS) fifteen or twenty years ago

>that the name was an answer to Fridays, the chain that is really named

>TGIFriday, I think. Fridays may be a regional chain, of course.



That's interesting.

I am familiar with Fridays,

or TGIFriday('s?), but not Poets.







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