A
Finnish fast food chain. Known for their
original and
funny ads, as well as (
IMHO) quite
tasty hamburgers.
Too bad the
prices are as
high as in
McDonalds. I wouldn't call the
stuff they
serve that
healthy either, but it's
junk food after all.
The
name was most likely chosen to
fool teens into thinking the chain was actually from the
USA.
Everybody knows that teenage
Finns believe everything from
America is
cool, and
domestic things
suck.
The first
ad campaigns were also
oozing with
sugar sweet images of
American culture, but thankfully they have let go of that
silly idea.
There used to be
three Carrols "
restaurants" in
Hämeenlinna, which isn't anything like a
huge metropolis. Because of
tough competition with
various other
similar chains which had
establishments nearby, one of the Carrols
franchises was closed. Too bad, since I think they
beat most of the other
burger joints easily.
Update - March 6, 2002
On January 31, 2002 Kesko sold Carrols to Burger-In which owns the Hesburger chain of hamburger restaurants. As a result the establishments will be transformed into Hesburger franchises while all the 1500 Carrols employees supposedly get to keep their jobs. While there has been some talk of maybe serving certain Carrols products in the Hesburger restaurants later on, the chain will cease to exist. R.I.P.