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===Restaurants=== In 1984, Buffett and a friend opened a T-shirt shop in [[Gulf Shores, Alabama]].<ref name=rockin/> After it failed, in 1985, they tried again in Key West, expanding it to what became [[Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville]] in 1987.<ref name=insideme/> The chain opened restaurants under the Margaritaville and LandShark Bar & Grill names in locations including Atlantic City, New Orleans, Nashville, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Las Vegas, Jamaica, Orlando, [[Baltimore]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/06/11/jimmy-buffett-themed-landshark-bar-harborplace.html | last=Yeager | first=Amanda | title=Exclusive: Jimmy Buffett-themed LandShark Bar & Grill coming to Harborplace |work=[[American City Business Journals]] | date=June 11, 2019 |archive-date=August 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814010319/https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/06/11/jimmy-buffett-themed-landshark-bar-harborplace.html | url-status=live}}</ref> and the Cayman Islands.<ref name=5decades/> The Margaritaville cafe on the Las Vegas strip was possibly the highest grossing restaurant in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-buffett-dies-obituary-parrotheads-aab4f7edb4044ef5af874d4ea63e8e9c | title=Jimmy Buffett's laid-back party vibe created adoring 'Parrotheads' and success beyond music}}</ref> Buffett previously owned the [[Cheeseburger in Paradise (restaurant)|Cheeseburger in Paradise Restaurant]] chain, founded in 2002 in partnership with [[Bloomin' Brands]]; it was sold to [[Luby's]] for $11 million in 2012 and shut down in 2020.<ref name=Steele>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-singer-and-beach-themed-businessman-dies-26e63495 | last=Steele | first=Anne |title=Jimmy Buffett, 'Margaritaville' Singer and Beach-Themed Businessman, Dies | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=September 2, 2023 | url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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