Originally posted by Rogue

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Oh right, and everyone's losing their minds about how we're getting a Cracker Barrel. I could swear there used to be one down the street when I was kid.

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Originally posted by Rogue

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Never heard of it. Don't think I've ever seen it any of the times I'm in Arizona.


Here, in Southern California, seems like more people are interested in getting the latest food craze down from Portland or convincing another ramen shop from Japan to open a branch of their restaurant in Greater Los Angeles.

Another craze are the viral marketing campaigns for shows and movies. Example: we had a "Bob's Burgers" pop-up restaurant for the better part of a week so people could eat some of the crazy board specials from the show. I didn't hear ANYTHING good about it. Another recent example was how the jazz club from "La La Land," would be coming to life for one night in Long Beach.

Then, of course, there's the fact that Chinatown has turned into hipster food mecca with all these Cajun and spicy Nashville chicken places cropping up, particularly in the Wing Hop strip mall.

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