re: Chain Lovers Alert, Red Lob, Olive Grdn Failing

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I just rebel against the notion that it is some sort of anti chain mecca. It's not.

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The only places that approach being "anti chain meccas" are places that figure out ways to actually legislate/zone against such things -- a practice I see as at least equally abhorrent as the most abhorrent slop slinging chain restaurants in existence.

Otherwise, the market will dictate a certain number of those places will exist no matter how "foodie-centric" the locale.

This also doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of locales that are more "foodie-centric" than others (I can usually spend less than a day in any particular town and get a good grasp of this), whether or not they are able to legislatively prohibit such chains or fast food joints from opening in their towns.