Burger Dude,
I guess you better do your research. As one who has a son working in the Bloomfield Hills Howies and in my travels across the country each week, I’ll attest to the fact that HH’s are not even close to being in all 48 states.

In fact, here’s a link to an industry site Pizzatoday article of Sept 2005 that states that they have 485 stores in 15 states (second paragraph down) http://pizzatoday.com/features_articles.shtml?article=MjUwMHN1cGVyMjQ5N3NlY3JldDI1MDQ=