TIL: The Hard Rock Cafe chain is now owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida

I bike past this place sometimes.

I shit you not. The Seminoles have owned the chain since 2006. Note, too, that that link is to a British source. This boggles my mind. Mind you, I’m not opposed to this or anything. I just think it surreal, like the plot of a Philip K. Dick novel: a Native American tribe buys an ailing restaurant chain centered around a form of music derived from kidnapped Africans.

I guess that’s capitalism for you? Everyone can get in on the game.

P.S. Before the Seminoles bought the chain, it was own by the British based Rank Group. Whose name always makes me think of this.