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Looks like Flying Burrito will be going in the former Crusty Croissant space at 36th and Peoria.  Great addition to Brookside.

This sounds like an interesting addition to Brookside.  The website says this is their first location outside of Arkansas.  Is anyone familiar with them?

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You beat me to it!   ;D

Thanks, you made me feel much younger.

Is this anything like that place that threw rolls to your table?

If so it could get kinda messy in there at lunch time.

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I recommend "Hot Burrito #1"

I've eaten at locations in NW Arkansas.  Very good food.  Along the same lines as chipotle and qdoba.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and give them under a year. This looks more along the lines of Atomic Burrito which fizzled in comparison to the Qdoba/Chipotle chains. Flying Burrito is a small chain with little marketing power and nothing distinctive compared to the other two. Not to mention, brookside seems to lean more towards restaurants with waiter then places that serve off of a cafeteria line.

Freebirds in Norman is a great burrito place along those lines.

So are the heirs of Grahm Parsons or any of the original players connected to this company? or are just the people that were there, back then, seeing a connection.

Wonder if there is a copyright of any sorts on the name?
 

Rico, as it would relate to "Flying Burrito Brothers" that copyright would apply for those three words, "Flying Burrito" would be entirely another.

Back when the internet was first starting to roll along, people were buying up viable domain names, for instance: someone could have bought pepsi.com without violating a trademark or copyright of Pepsico, Inc. (so long as Pepsico's IP attorneys weren't on the ball and did not get those trademarked or copyrighted prior to someone else doing so) because of the .com part of the name. 

This happened to a company my ex-wife worked for here in Tulsa.  A competitor (former employee of the company I'm speaking of) bought every imagineable permutation they would have used for the business name plus .com, .org.  The owner of the company's wife was an IP attorney.  IIRC, She discovered what the competitor did was perfectly legal due to the .com or .org being added on.  Not a thing they could do about it.

I think that they added a "squatters" law to stop this practice.  Not real sure on everything about htat but remember hearing something along those lines some time back. 

What do you mean Atomic Burrito fizzled in comparison to Qdoba/Chipotle?
In the beginning (Tulsa region anyhow)... there was only Atomic Burrito.
Owners decided to open Los Cabos and sold their A.B. locations to Qdoba.
Years later, Chipotle comes to town.

I hope you are WRONG... when my brother was at UA we ate at the Flying Burrito most every time we were in town... very good food.

I know they never directly competed, that's why I said "fizzled in comparison to" and not "fizzled in competition with"

I really liked Atomic Burrito (better than Qdoba actually) but they only survived because the other two weren't here. They had no real niche or anything they did obviously better. The service and marketing power of the big three (we don't have Baja Fresh yet) could easily crush them.

Keep in mind they sold the Atomic burrito business and opened a Los Cabos restaurant that failed miserably, although later iterations finally took off.

I judge a Mexican place solely on its quesadillas.  I liked them at Atomic Burrito, didn't like what I got at Qdoba.  Here's to hope for good quesadillas.

Fast food wise, Bueno's are actually pretty good (if they bother to actually cook them), and Bell's are absolutely nasty.

Looks like Flying Burrito fell.

I liked the place, but they were never busy regardless what time I went for lunch.  Sorry to hear it.

I miss the tapas place that used to be there, Aioli..

Too bad Terry Turner's temper got the best of him finally caught up to him.

Well I did try Freebirds and it was worse.

I preferred Freebirds to the Flying Burrito.

Of the burrito joints in town, past & present, I would rank:

Flying Burrito < Freebirds < Qdoba < Atomic Burrito < Chipotle

Atomic Burrito may be a bit high due to the romanticism of a local place gone by the way side.

This was one of those places I intended to try, but never got around to it.

What is going into this location now?

It's Greek to me?

Total redo....kept the walls up to get grandfathered into code.

http://zoeskitchen.com/ (http://zoeskitchen.com/)

That looks really good!

I think you and I share tastebuds.