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Ground Round

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Minor restaurant chain, the remains of a bigger one--but neither is well-verified or notable by our standards. Drmies (talk) 00:52, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Companies, Maine, and Massachusetts. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The earlier chain is where most of the notability is, Drmies. The problem is that it's mostly pre-social media coverage (and a lot of wading through ads and non-article material). I turned up a very long 2004 article that could help: [1] + [2]. Also: [3] Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- User:Sammi Brie, wanna help me out? Drmies (talk) 14:59, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Drmies: Done and more. Nation's Restaurant News (in EBSCOhost via TWL) has some substantial coverage of this chain's perpetual problems. We are in clear Keep territory. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:38, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This was a major, nationwide restaurant chain for a many years. It's basically died out, sure, but Wikipedia actually does have some articles on things that don't exist anymore. The article could stand some improvement, certainly, but it's functional enough in its current state, even. -R. fiend (talk) 13:16, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per other keep !votes. I am really having trouble figuring out how there could even possibly be an argument for deletion. Maybe it depends on what part of the U.S. you grew up in. When I was a kid these places were everywhere. The last one near me, in a now-embalmed mall, closed years ago after an employee got murdered there after hours. Daniel Case (talk) 04:01, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd only heard of this chain because of reading about it online. Even at its height, I don't think it operated in the Southwest. The closest it might have come was Idaho. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:12, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep thanks to User:Sammi Brie's extraordinary research and writing to establish notability and bring it up to Wikipedia's standards. SilverbackNet ^talk 07:26, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]