A Margaritaville-branded e-cigarette?

The Orlando Business Journal noticed an interesting trademark application filed by Margaritaville Enterprises LLC:

Is Jimmy Buffett — the Jimmy Buffett — getting ready to start selling electronic cigarettes in Florida? Or, with a bigger question mark, marijuana products?

Notice the question marks: Mr. Margaritaville didn’t return my call, and neither did the attorneys on this, so this is all unconfirmed right now.

But according to a trademark filed in January of this year, Margaritaville Enterprises LLC wants to trademark the term Coral Reefer.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office application, the trademark would be used to sell goods and services related to electronic cigarettes:

Electronic cigarettes; cigarettes; cigars; tobacco; herbs for smoking; cigarette holders; cigarette lighters; ashtrays, humidors, cigar cutters, hookahs, matches, cigar and cigarette boxes, cigarette papers, cigarette rolling machines, pocket apparatus for rolling cigarettes, smoking urns, tobacco substitute, tobacco tins; tobacco pouches; electronic cigarette refill cartridges sold empty; smoking pipes, smoking pipe cleaners, smoking pipe racks; smokeless cigar and cigarette vaporizers; tobacco grinders.

The feds have returned the application to Margaritaville to seek clarification that the applicant’s goods do not include anything marijuana related.

Read more here.

It’s been a year and a half since we told you about the possibility of Margaritaville opening in Syracuse, New York, and it appears headed to fruition, according to Syracuse.com.

Assemblyman Al Stirpe, D-Cicero, confirmed that a bill he co-sponsored involving a major new tenant for the mall referred to Margaritaville. The bill, which would allow the bar and restaurant to open at Destiny, has passed the Senate and Assembly.

The mall hasn’t officially announced Margaritaville yet.

The chain appears to be heading for the vacant space across the hall from Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill on Destiny’s entertainment-focused third floor.

Destiny USA, previously known as the Carousel Center from 1990-2012, is a six-story super-regional shopping and entertainment complex on the shore of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York. It is the sixth largest shopping center in the nation.

Jimmy Buffett’s latest Margaritaville restaurant opens next Monday (June 16th) in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Officials will celebrate the opening of the beach-themed restaurant, inspired by Buffett’s famous song, with a ribbon cutting on June 16 at 9:30 am. The festivities are open to the public, and the restaurant will open for business after the ceremony.

A Margaritaville Island Hotel is set to open as well, but not until October. They’re taking reservations now at margaritavilleislandhotel.com.

View a sneak peek of the restaurant at pigeonforgetnguide.com.

Margaritaville Enterprises has sold its Margaritaville restaurants to Brazilian firm International Meal Company.

Brazilian-based International Meal Co. has purchased a dozen Margaritaville restaurants and plans to grow the chain.

Margaritaville Enterprises sold the restaurants this month for an undisclosed price. Margaritaville’s Orlando-based hospitality division ran the restaurants, employing about 40 corporate employees here.

About 25 of those employees will now work for International Meal Co., while the rest will remain with Margaritaville and handle services such as marketing.

No workers are losing their jobs, the companies said.

“Not only does it stand for more growth domestically, now those employees have the opportunity to go around the world as part of a larger operation,” Margaritaville Enterprises Chief Executive Officer John Cohlan said.

The purchase includes 11 Margaritaville restaurants, including one at Universal CityWalk. It also includes LandShark Bar and Grilles in Atlantic City, N.J., and Myrtle Beach, S.C.

“The motivation here was really about growth,” Cohlan said. “They’re better positioned to grow Margaritaville than we really would be domestically.”

Cohlan and Gavilian declined to discuss sales for the chain, founded by singer Jimmy Buffett and named after one of his signature songs.

International Meal Co. will have exclusive rights to develop and own Margaritavilles in the United States and Latin America. This year, Margaritaville will open restaurants in Brazil and the Dominican Republic and in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.

Hat tip @sawman71

Jimmy Buffett’s vast array of products under the Margaritaville banner already includes eyewear, frozen foods, outdoor furniture, blenders, ice teas, rum, and much more. Beginning this summer, Margaritaville will partner with Romantix, Inc. for Margaritaville Pleasures, a line of adult products.

World-renowned singer/songwriter and author Jimmy Buffett is teaming up with Romantix, Inc., where Your Pleasure Is Our Passion™, to produce a signature line of adult products for the Margaritaville brand.

Take your partner to that “One Particular Harbour” with the FrenchTickler for the Night. She’ll be singing “I Have Found Me A Home” when you massage her with premium Treat Her Like A Lady massage oils. Having trouble performing for your “Railroad Lady?” Try the There’s Nothing Soft About Hard Times male enhancement tablets.

Margaritaville Pleasures isn’t just for hula girls. Ladies, send your sailor to the “Far Side of the World” with themed lingerie, including Sexy Parrot, Smart Woman (in A Real Short Skirt), and Mermaid in the Night.

And no Margaritaville adult-themed product line would be complete without the Life Is Just A Tire Schwing anatomically correct blowup doll. It’s the next best thing to “Flesh and Bone.”

Find your escape to Pleasure Island with Margaritaville Pleasures.

Look for Margaritaville Pleasures products this summer at Margaritaville.com and at pre-show tailgates around the country for Jimmy Buffett’s 2014 This One’s For You Tour.

Learn more about Buffett’s business empire here.