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advertising campaign targets customers? Or especially, and I assume most people who come here want to know this as I did, how their food is processed and sourced. There's no mention of their aggressive promotion of "natural" ingredients or investigation into it's validity. This article's language is calculatedly neutral but the information is lacking. Overall it's vapid and suspicious, I will be looking into this.
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Universal customer response to the change in thick-cut fries can't be known from the source currently cited. It is more accurate to say the initial response on Facebook, specifically, was largely negative. There is also no citation provided that connects the change in fries to a decline in revenue.
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An element was added to the text of the description, 'QSR', but was a reduction of the link into 'Quick Service Restaurant', the text shows up as 'QSR', but yet there is no mention of what 'QSR' means. Great, a new TLA (Three Letter Acronym), without an explanation of what the author is trying to
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This article reads like an overlong advertisement. I don't think people reading this are interested in detailed descriptions of the burger family, you can find that on A&W's corporate website, which is eerily similar to this. How about a controversy section, or information about how their
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There is little doubt that the tuba jingle was performed by Dennis Miller who was at that time the tuba player of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and not by Sharman King as stated in the article. I have confirmed this with friends and colleagues of Dennis.
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I can't believe this article doesn't mention A&W's famous onion rings! Maybe it's just a regional menu item and only found in the west, but that's half the reason most people go to A&W out west. Also, I have never heard of them offering potato chips.
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say. So, being a bold Wikipedian, I have edited this to its Expanded Name, which, in turn has made the sentence having two times the word restuarant. Removing the second reference to resteraunt, seems to make it sound better.
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OK... I've listened to the link in the External Links and it's a different jingle. This is Dennis Miller's:
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Chubby burgers are breaded all made with all white chicken breasts.
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