Talk:Dick Spady

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Haruo (talk) 05:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dick Spady is arguably as important a Seattle restaurateur as Ivar Haglund. Dick's Drive-In on Broadway is celebrated in songs by Sir Mix-A-Lot and Macklemore, and in 2012 an Esquire Magazine poll rated Dick's the "most life-changing burger joint in America. From its inception in 1954 to the present, Dick's has been central to the local culture of Seattle. Mr. Spady was an important philanthropist, articulated and practiced an unusually progressive business model, and apparently also contributed significantly to Russian democracy and higher education, according to the honorary doctorate awarded him by the University of Russia’s Open University of Education, though it's not clear whether this is the PFUR or some other "University of Russia". In any event, his page needs fleshing out and documentation, not speedy deletion. --Haruo (talk) 05:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]