Question: Shoney's dropped is affiliation with a restaurant whose name, design aesthetic, and menu were previously licensed to who? 

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Big Boy Restaurants: Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC is an American restaurant chain headquartered in Warren, Michigan, in Metro Detroit.  Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants is a restaurant chain with its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The Big Boy name, design aesthetic, and menu were previously licensed to a number of regional franchisees.

Broken Blade: Broken Blade (ブレイク ブレイド , Bureiku Bureido , a.k.a. "Break Blade") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yunosuke Yoshinaga.  Flex Comix published the first "tankōbon" volume of the manga on April 10, 2007.  The manga was previously licensed in North America by CMX, where three volumes were released before CMX shut down.  The manga is licensed in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing.  The manga was adapted into six 50 minute animated films.  Sentai Filmworks has licensed the movie series and released them on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.  The anime movies are also available online on Crunchyroll.

Crawford Dunn: Crawford Boddie Dunn (October 26, 1918 – September 17, 1980) was a designer specializing in graphics and corporate communication.  Dunn is known for his modern design aesthetic and holistic approach to graphic identity and communication, which he applied to a range of corporate and civic clients in the Southwest.  In a 1975 newspaper article, Dunn said of the range of his work, "This spectrum comprises the design of print graphics, architectural graphics as well as corporate identity."  A company brochure identifies another aspect of his work, "environmental signing design."

Magical Canan: Magical Canan (まじかるカナン ) (also appears as "Magical Kanan") is a magical girl eroge developed and published by Terios.  It was later adapted into two erotic OVA series and a 13 episode-long television series.  Both OVA series were previously licensed for distribution in North America by NuTech Digital in 2004.  Since 2006 the OVAs are licensed by Adult Source Media.  The TV series has been licensed for distribution in the Philippines and dubbed in Tagalog by Hero and licensed in Taiwan by Mighty Media Co., Ltd.  The game has never been licensed for distribution in North America.  The anime television series has been licensed for a North American release by Discotek Media.

Brininstool + Lynch: Brininstool + Lynch, Ltd. is a Chicago-based architecture firm named for partners David Brininstool and Brad Lynch.  Founded in 1989, the 33-person firm offers architecture, planning, interior and product design services.  The firm is known for its modern design aesthetic.  Brininstool + Lynch has received awards for multiple projects including Wood House in Chicago, an office for Enova, an online financial services company, and Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin.  Currently, they are working on a mixed-use residential project in Toronto, Ontario which is an adaptive reuse of existing waterfront silos.  In 2013, Brininstool + Lynch moved to its current location in the West Loop into a building which was originally designed by them in 2001 for a previous client.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum located in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile in Manhattan, New York City.  It is one of nineteen museums that fall under the wing of the Smithsonian Institution and is one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, the other two being the George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District.  It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design.  Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity.

ABC Commissary: The ABC Commissary is a restaurant on Commissary Lane at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World.  The restaurant has an Art Deco design.  It is more popular than the other counter service restaurants in the park, and offers a larger variety of menu options.  The ABC Commissary's menu is themed to programs broadcast by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), including such items as Down the Hatch (fried fish), a reference to in the television series "Lost".  The restaurant also offers a fried prawn burger.  The deep-fried foods on the menu do not contain "trans" fat.  In 2013, the ABC Commissary was one of several restaurants in the park to offer apple pie cupcakes in celebration of Independence Day.  The ABC Commissary is located next to the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant.  In "The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2012", Bob Sehlinger and Liliane Opsomer write that the ABC Commissary is "hard to find" but "usually not too crowded".

Tower of Gourze: The tower of Gourze is the remnants of a medieval lookout tower on the Mont de Gourze in the Swiss canton of Vaud.  A square tower, it is approximately 9 m tall and has views over Lake Geneva.  The tower is open to the public and stairs provide access to the top.  A restaurant whose specialty is fondue is located nearby and is named after the tower.

Shoney's: Shoney’s is a privately held restaurant chain headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.  Operating primarily in the South, Shoney's also has restaurants in the Midwest and Lower Mid-Atlantic states.  Founder Alex Schoenbaum became a licensee of Big Boy Restaurants (originally known as Parkette) in 1952.  Two years later the name was changed to Shoney's, and aggressive subfranchising followed.  Thirty years later, having outgrown its Big Boy territory, Shoney's dropped the Big Boy affiliation.

BK Chicken Fries: BK Chicken Fries are a fried chicken product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.  At the time of their introduction in 2005, the company had intended Chicken Fries to be one of their larger, adult oriented products made with higher quality ingredients than their standard menu items.  Additionally, the product further targeted the "snacking" and "convenience food" markets with a specific packaging design that was intended to be easier to handle and fit into automotive cup holders.  The product was part of a series of product introductions designed to expand Burger King's menu with both more sophisticated fare and present a larger, meatier product that appealed to 24- to 36-year-old adult males.  Along with this series of larger, more complex group of menu products, the company intended to attract a larger, more affluent adult audience who would be willing to spend more on the better quality products.  They were discontinued in the United States in 2012, but continued to be sold in some markets, such as Italy.  In August 2014, they were reintroduced for a limited time offering (LTO) in North America, leading to their permanent re-addition to the menu in March 2015 in over 30 countries globally.

Supporting paragraphs: Shoney's Big Boy Restaurants
Answer: regional franchisees