Big Boys to Buddy's Pizza: Tell us restaurants you want in Southwest Florida

Detroit-based Buddy's Pizza will open its second Lansing area location next month in Okemos.
Detroit-based Buddy's Pizza will open its second Lansing area location next month in Okemos.

Everyone city has favorite regional chain restaurants that they miss since they moved to Southwest Florida.

For this native Detroiter, they're Buddy's Pizza and Big Boys. And now that Jack In The Box recently announced it was moving into Florida, we're asking for readers' help: What is a regional chain restaurant you'd love to see in Southwest Florida?

You know, the restaurant you hit up at least once when visiting your hometown.

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They're slowly arriving to the Gulf's sandy shores, like Culver's (Wisconsin) in 2013 in Naples and Wawa (Pennsylvania) in Collier and Lee counties in the past decade.

But for many of us, it's just not fast enough.

Email us at features@naplesnews.com or taste@news-press.com, telling us in a sentence or two what you'd like to see here and why. We'll compile a list of and, who knows, maybe they'll listen to us Up North.

Dave Osborn is the regional features editor of the Naples Daily News and News-Press. Follow him on Instagram @lacrossewriter and on Twitter @NDN_dosborn.

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