Papa Murphy’s Tops List for ‘Most Significant’ Chain Restaurant in Oregon
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Thrillist loves its lists, especially the nationwide kind that rope in all 50 states. Perhaps that's why they came up with a list of the "most significant restaurant chains" in each state in the Union.
It's not much of a surprise that nearby Washington State is pegged with Starbucks and California is represented by In-N-Out Burger, but it had a few heads scratching around the GoLocalPDX office as to why Thrillist would ever pick Papa Murphy's to represent Oregon.
First off, Papa Murphy's is currently based across the river in Vancouver, Washington. And when it humbly began in Hillsboro, Oregon in 1981 it was called Papa Aldo's not Papa Murphy's.
Considering the significance of other restaurant chains based in Oregon, both large and small, the take-and-bake pizza joint is an odd pick over such locally-based chain stalwarts as McMenamins, Shari's, or even more recently Stumptown Coffee and Voodoo Doughnuts.
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