Post #499061 by TabooDan on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 9:33 PM

I don't know how it came all about, but wasn't this Trader Vic's actually not a Trader Vic's?? I mean, I had heard that Trader Vic actually had nothing to do with this location. Now I don't know if that was the whole time or just in the beginning or what.
I thought I heard/read that in the beginning of this particular location, Trader Vic himself pulled out or didn't want to go through with the restaurant but I believe it was too late for him to take his name with him and therefore the "others" running it had the right to keep his name or something along those lines.
Why change the name if you don't have to and Trader Vic's was already established and a very successful restaurant.

This is maybe why you see different items from this location only. You also see specifically made Trader Vic Hawaii mugs for this location only and a different menu.
Hey....coming to think of it, sure there are the Trader Vic matchbooks like Dusty posted above, but have you ever seen the common black ones with the mask and paddle logo from this location like there were from every other location???!!!

Oh, and one other interesting point is that I have a Trader Vic menu from the Westin Bayshore Hotel that for some reason on every page has "We are not affiliated with Trader Vic's Hawaii". It is also not on Trader Vic's website as stating that it was a location or when it opened.

Not sure of all this but just throwing it out there. Maybe someone else can shed some light. I for one would like to know.
Mahalo, TabooDan