• mstrbassist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    In the city I grew up in, there’s a Chinese restaurant near my home that never gets packed, not even on busy weekends. I’ve also never seen more than 2 customers at a time eating there. And yet, it’s outlasted every single restaurant in the vicinity for 3 decades. That, and there’s always an expensive car or two parked in front.

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      1 year ago

      I got a Chinese joint two blocks away like that. I saw someone eating there for the first time for the five years that I’ve lived in my house. The cook is also the delivery driver, and we are both on the same one way street, so I’ll see him drive past a handful of times a night. Not enough though. I don’t think it’s a front though. Just cheap real estate that he probably owns.