Authenticity

This blog deserves much more time than I’m going to give it right now…but I was reading an article in Nation’s Restaurant News on El Pollo Loco picking a fight with KFC (I post feeds on my website to some great blogs so I can go there every day to keep up with what’s going [...]

Hand Trucks and Hand Grenades

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