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Why is it called Boston Pizza if it has nothing to do with Boston?

I asked a waitress at one of the Ontario loactions and she said it was because the gys favorite hockey team was the Bruins.

According to http://www.bostonsgourmet.com/about/our-heritage/, the American Boston Pizza website's history page, the name was simply recognizable due to the large number of popular entities with the name Boston. (Right at the end there, if I read it correctly.)

As an aside, has anyone else noticed that the George Melville link in the first couple paragraphs links to Rear Admiral Melville, who died in 1912? (68.149.176.81 (talk) 00:09, 28 March 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Split Crow Controversy

Yes, I realize that there is likely a controversy; however, unless the controversy starts to receive mainstream media coverage, we can not neutrally verify it and it must stay out of the Wikipedia article until we can verify it using a neutral source. Andy Saunders 15:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does a link to the Facebook petition against it count? --Cbd2000 06:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd hardly call that neutral. Andy Saunders 13:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Self Promotion on Wikipedia Page

Just a reminder to ALL users on this page that self promotional edits are strictly prohibited.

Example of prohibited edits, previously saved on this page listed are below: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boston_Pizza&oldid=524384102 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boston_Pizza&oldid=445204972

I believe that Jterr88 and Jkuss85 are both apart of the Boston Pizza communications team. A sock puppet complaint has been filed. Gsgeek540 (talk) 00:30, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While I totally agree that the tone of these edits was clearly from BP people, there was also a lot of good and relevant information in them - especially in the second one - about legitimate subjects of interest to a Wikipedia article, such as their charity work, their Valentines promotion (which as a long-time resident in their home province is well-known), and various other details. It would be nice to see the relevant information in the article, after removing the self-serving language and adding citations, rather than just reverting the edits completely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.207.65.88 (talk) 07:43, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is still promotion of a business and is strictly prohibited. Doesn't matter if they remove the words "us" and "we". At the end of the day, it is still an attempt to drive business in based on their good record within the community, such as all their charity work (Boston Pizza Foundation), valentines day promotion, and such. Health check was posted in the past, kids cards and kids menu was posted in the past. Its all an attempt to advertise which Wikipedia is not for. There is no other non protected restaurant page that i can find that has potentially conflicting, sales driving information. If i didn't have a history with Boston Pizza that I do and i saw those facts, i would certainly be enticed to visit their establishment. Those facts drive me to alot of restaurants. Wikipedia is not the place for that. End of Story. If you want to go ahead and add a "charity work" section without promoting BP, but more highlighting the contributions they make to said charities, go ahead.Gsgeek540 (talk) 19:42, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]