Post #231715 by lanikai on Fri, May 12, 2006 11:19 AM

On 2006-05-10 13:21, quickiki wrote:
Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants aren't affiliated with Jimmy Buffet (Thank God!). It's owned by a couple of nice middle aged ladies who started the chain in Hawaii 15 or so years ago. Jimmy Buffet in fact, had sued them over the use of the name, which they had just recently settled after years of litigation.

allegedly, they initially had a "verbal aggreement" .... they met him once and asked if they could use the wording for their restaurants. he said sure why not. I do music. not food.
But later, changed his mind when he realised he gave away a valuable commodity... part of his "branding"...