White Spot at SFU

I am back in Vancouver between sabbatical travel. I have an office up at Simon Fraser University (across town in Vancouver from UBC) that my buddies here set up for me. I am in IRMACS which is really a nice environment. I have spent a lot of time up at SFU over the years. My last two sabbaticals (in 2004 and 1997) were mostly spent up here. This was when the kids were too young for me to be away for long. SFU has three main things going for it:

1. A world famous pipe (that's bagpipe) band. Check them out here. I have their CD from a few years ago when they were world champions - brilliant. They might still be world champions, I don't know. 
2. A great applied and computational mathematics group. 
3. A White Spot outlet

So what is White Spot? It is a family restaurant chain, you can see details here. My father used to take me there when I was a kid on weekends after my parents split up. We would go to the one in West Vancouver (at Park Royal) and have car service. I think the food there is generally better than the average family restaurant, but the main reason I love to go to the White Spot is those childhood memories. 

White Spot has an affiliated burger stand franchise called Triple-O's. This is what they have here at SFU and at Chevron gas stations throughout the province as well as on the BC Ferries. At UBC last year, they opened a White Spot restaurant right next to my office! I think this was the happiest year of my career at UBC. I understand that it was "downgraded" to a Triple-O outlet this year. I haven't been to this new version yet, but I can't believe I will enjoy it as much as the one here at SFU, which has all those good memories. I went for lunch there today and the only thing missing was Keith Promislow "sharing" my fries.