Talk:Dixie Lee Fried Chicken

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tastes better in NB than in Ontario

(Matt Harrison and Aaron McKenzie Fraser of OttawaXpress web site report that) the food prepared in the Maritimes' restaurants tastes better in New Brunswick than in Ontario. Does this mean that it is shipped to Ontario? If so, perhaps that is why it tastes better in the Maritimes: it is fresh. Or should the sentence read (Matt Harrison and Aaron McKenzie Fraser of OttawaXpress web site report that) the food prepared in the Maritimes' restaurants tastes better than that prepared in Ontario?Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

My guess is that the NB locations are overseen by Dixie Lee Maritimes, which is doing a bit more local quality control than the Ontario "head office" (so, instead of pursuing grandiose-but-doomed schemes of expanding to Jamaica, UAE, UK, Ukraine or anywhere else they're concentrating on serving good food at home). There is local variation in quality within the chain, but any truly bad NB locations folded years ago. There's also the minor detail that individual franchisees who have been in operation for decades (whether small-town ON or maritime NB) know how the system works and may have the ability locally to deliver a quality product instead of a greasy mess. They don't have the same need to be baby-sat by head office. Ogdensburg was fine for years, it changed hands in 2012, it started getting multiple negative on-line user reviews in 2013. Ottawa opened new with a few locations in 2006 to immediate bad reviews in an already-saturated market and was gone within months. OttawaXpress is a printed weekly free alternative newspaper - or at least it was at the time - and not just some website. That review did *not* look good. GTA? London? Here today, gone tomorrow... usually too quickly and too quietly to even be noted by WP:RS with a passing obituary. It looks like this went off the rails when the Ontario parent organisation changed hands in 2006 and tried aggressively to go public in 2007 with a series of quickly-bungled expansion plans; no point expanding into an already-saturated big city market unless one has a better product at a competitive price and is willing to put ongoing effort into local promotion and stay the course for more than a few months at one location. The failed attempts to launch new locations continue well into 2008, likely having abruptly slowed or stopped only because of the recession.

This so-called "head office" is a former Papa Pete's pizzeria on the main street of Kingston, Ontario - a city into which the chain made two failed "expansion" attempts when its head office was in Napanee. If these folks can't make a local restaurant work on their own home turf, perhaps they need to take a good look at why the Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto locations failed before pursuing more hare-brained expansion schemes abroad. K7L (talk) 18:55, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

outdated info

This article is an outdated mess... sole-sourcing this from dixieleechicken.com is bad enough, but from an archive.org copy of that site? The HQ has moved from Napanee to Kingston, the store count is down to 60 in Canada (mostly New Brunswick and Bas-St-Laurent QC, there are only 11 left in Ontario), two abroad, nothing stateside. Stores in this chain have folded in Napanee, Kingston and Ottawa. It's likely holding on in some really small towns with limited competition, but the decline in locations doesn't look good. K7L (talk) 01:39, 10 November 2013 (UTC) I've tried to dig up a bit more info, but can't find a replacement for the outdated 2006 financial numbers in the infobox. I've therefore left the "outdated" and "sole-source" tags in place. K7L (talk) 19:55, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Dixie Lee's fried "Chicken in the Hand"

Likely not part of the chain described in this article, given the dates of operation, but archival newspapers indicate a Lodi, California drive-in restaurant which opened in 1940, started marketing "Dixie Lee's fried 'Chicken in the Hand' and was sold in 1948. Presumably this bit of early fast food (it was intended to be picked up and eaten by hand, a bit ahead of its time in 1940) was one member in a franchise, but who owned the marks and are they still extant? K7L (talk) 03:13, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Avril Lavigne

Any WP:RS as to whether Dixie Lee is the fried chicken in the "Avril Lavigne: My World" title track?

"Grew up in a 5000 population town,

Made my money by cutting grass,

Got fired by fried chicken ass,

All in a small town, Napanee."[www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/avrillavigne/myworld.html]

As much as I'm sure the chain would love to have the product placement to appear globally notable, we do need actual facts to determine whether to include or remove the info. K7L (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

I agree. That doesn't belong here without a reliable source. Ground Zero | t 19:26, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

All I can find is http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/rise-vancouver-to-the-ultimate-civic-challenge-hosting-chavrils-wedding/article4498753/ which mentions "Napanee, Ont., Ms. Lavigne’s hometown, and headquarters of the Dixie Lee Fried Chicken empire. If you doubt her affection for the place, consider that both the town and the chicken have been immortalized in Ms. Lavigne’s song My World" in an opinion piece about Avril's wedding. The wording which was in this article until recently, "Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne mentions in her song My World about having worked at the Napanee restaurant.", is questionable as the song doesn't mention the company by name and is clearly not an endorsement of the firm or its products. K7L (talk) 19:37, 10 February 2014 (UTC)