Because any eatery takes dollars away from RL eateries the way they see it. They can't seem to make enough profit with overpriced, overhyped, mediocre at best, food so why would they want anybody else pulling from the limited dollars available. the fact that it would bring busloads of folks from all around the area in to aur fair city. Who knows, some of them may want to come back on their own.
One of my sisters in ATL was talking to a fella in the waiting lobby of a car dealership service deptartment and she mentioned coming to Lake Martin that weekend and he said that was near where him and a groups of freinds chartered a bus to go eat catfish. He was talking about Red's. So that weekend we all loaded up from the lake and went there to eat. My dad was with us and picked up the tab for everyone. It was great. Dad died in '93. I say all that to show if it was Red's that was turned away, or most likely just turned off by who ever they talked to and decided not to locate here, it was a very foolish move indeed.