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Remii's web designer must really love The Franklin ...
Look familiar? Every single thing on the site seems to have been swiped directly from The Franklin Mortgage and Investment Co.
Remii's web designer must really love The Franklin ...
A tipster pointed us in the direction of remii.net, a splash page for a private "Chinese karaoke club" at 932 Race Street (formerly House of Chen). Look familiar? Every single thing on the site seems to have been swiped directly from The Franklin Mortgage and Investment Co. (112 S. 18th St.) — and Franklin proprietor Mike Welsh is not happy about it. "They've completely ripped off our [site] in so many different ways I can't count them," says Welsh. It's not an exaggeration — the logo, the font, the "a drinking establishment" tagline and even the imagery and geography of the page are 100 percent harvested from the cocktail cavern's thefranklinbar.com. (Here's a bigger view of the screengrab above.)
Welsh says he's reached out to Remii via his PR rep with the ultimatum that they must pull down the site by the end of the day today, or else he'll be compelled to "pursue an alternative method to force [them] to take it down."
As for Remii itself — not many details are floating out there just yet, but we hear that the place, which has been established by the same owner who operated House of Chen, will feature six private full-service karaoke rooms and a liquor license. They also seem to be catering aggressively to an Asian crowd, as language on the establishment's Facebook page indicates that prospective employees must be fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. An opening is imminent within a few weeks, according to an individual we spoke with who's overseeing hiring for the concept.
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