--just local to several distinct locales. I didn't realize DC was one of them. They were also in parts of South Florida, and in Houston but not elsewhere in Texas that I know.
Kind of like Schlotzsky's, which was local to Carnegie Hall for a few years but then closed within months of my finally reaching it!
A weird thing with Carvel is that all the stores here in the mid-Hudson Valley spun off into a separate chain, Carnival (unrelated to the Long Island ice cream truck company), after Tom's death. A few Carvel stores have opened and closed here over the years since then, but without the old familiar locations they just didn't have the draw anymore. I see on the webbage there's one in Hopewell now and one "coming soon" in Red Oaks--where, last I knew, there was still a Carnival across the road!
I didn't know they had merged with Cinnabon and Seattle's Best recently. As all these stupid fast-food conglomerates grow, every one of them seems to be trying its hardest to ditch the local flavor and reinvent each of its brands as a longtime nationwide brand. Now even Nathan's want you to believe they've been the whole country's favorite ever since FDR served them to royalty.
They were local
Kind of like Schlotzsky's, which was local to Carnegie Hall for a few years but then closed within months of my finally reaching it!
A weird thing with Carvel is that all the stores here in the mid-Hudson Valley spun off into a separate chain, Carnival (unrelated to the Long Island ice cream truck company), after Tom's death. A few Carvel stores have opened and closed here over the years since then, but without the old familiar locations they just didn't have the draw anymore. I see on the webbage there's one in Hopewell now and one "coming soon" in Red Oaks--where, last I knew, there was still a Carnival across the road!
I didn't know they had merged with Cinnabon and Seattle's Best recently. As all these stupid fast-food conglomerates grow, every one of them seems to be trying its hardest to ditch the local flavor and reinvent each of its brands as a longtime nationwide brand. Now even Nathan's want you to believe they've been the whole country's favorite ever since FDR served them to royalty.