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IIRC, Sprouts was mentioned in the WSJ article referenced earlier as being particularly attractive to price conscious millennials. Last I looked we had at least 50,000 or so going to A&M. I'd say whoever pulled the plug on a Sprouts here made a bone-headed decision.

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I'd say he was pretty spot on. The millenials we have around here are funded by Mommy and Daddy's plastic. Which explains why Campus Depot with their outrageous prices stays open.

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Maybe we'll get one of Whole Food's new 365 stores.

http://www.eater.com/2015/6/11/8765173/365-by-whole-foods-market-grocery-store-for-broke-people

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

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Uh ... they closed because not enough people ate there, despite the online sentiment expressed here. She's got a legit point.

Someone mentioned the Aggie Highway as I recall. I asked around here in Montgomery County and it's in study phase. 6 possibe routes under consideration. No ROW work is done and if built it will be two lanes, expandable, tolls all the way.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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Oh

I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Oh

I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Like I've finally conceded, the college student demographic doesn't look good on paper, as it shows a bunch of people who are very poor, even if reality is different. While you're acting smug, I may remind you that I have also lived in this area as long as you have, nay, longer, and unlike you, still live here, bound by circumstances.

The Mediterranean cafe on Welsh closed in an era before MyBCS and was completely hidden with almost no roadside sign.

The Lacks center had...a Quizno's, which closed, and a replacement sandwich shop, plus Kebab & Curry (which has FIVE one-star reviews on Yelp, and none of them are made by you know who), Spice Bowl (which again, wasn't very good and was functionally replaced by Taz anyway), and Prospector's (which was just a bar and did not pay rent, while the owners made up some BS about family issues). Northgate had...nothing spectacular. I devoted at least three years of my life to a blog nobody read as I attempted to research Northgate. OK, what was in Northgate?

There was Play Gaming Cafe, which I remember reading about but never could find (and I've never seen anyone ask for an Internet cafe anyway, plus 2005--on the verge of being irrelevant for our purposes), Burger Boy (owners retired and sold out), Crazy Cajuns' (went through several changes of hands, food deteriorated under last management), Texadelphia (which closed in 2003 due to rent and parking issues, but 2003 is so far back in demographics, it's kind of irrelevant for our purposes), Nipa Hot (again, which closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant), and TJ's Laser Tag (again, closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant for demographics today).

The Holleman H-E-B? Well, there was Gattitown, which you might be able to make an argument for. By the time Gattitown had closed, I hadn't been there in years, and by that time, Chuck E. Cheese's was open, which is essentially the same thing and frankly, I haven't heard of any moaning and groaning about another kid's pizza emporium, nor was it well missed. What else around the Holleman H-E-B? OK, there was Goody's, which went out of business chain wide and goes with the whole "chain wide issues". Blockbuster too, but the whole category has shrunk (and again, who's said recently "We need a video store"), Long John Silver's (drug bust).

All things being equal though, you can't have it both ways for "restaurants going out of business due to lousy food" and "B/CS has no taste, that's why fried chicken is popular".

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Like I've finally conceded, the college student demographic doesn't look good on paper, as it shows a bunch of people who are very poor, even if reality is different. While you're acting smug, I may remind you that I have also lived in this area as long as you have, and unlike you still live here, bound by circumstances.

The Mediterranean cafe on Welsh closed in an era before MyBCS and was completely hidden with almost no roadside sign.

The Lacks center had...a Quizno's, which closed, and a replacement sandwich shop, plus Kebab & Curry (which has FIVE one-star reviews on Yelp, and none of them are made by you know who), Spice Bowl (which again, wasn't very good and was functionally replaced by Taz anyway), and Prospector's (which was just a bar and did not pay rent, while the owners made up some BS about family issues). Northgate had...nothing spectacular. I devoted at least three years of my life to a blog nobody read as I attempted to research Northgate. OK, what was in Northgate?

There was Play Gaming Cafe, which I remember reading about but never could find (and I've never seen anyone ask for an Internet cafe anyway, plus 2005--on the verge of being irrelevant for our purposes), Burger Boy (owners retired and sold out), Crazy Cajuns' (went through several changes of hands, food deteriorated under last management), Texadelphia (which closed in 2003 due to rent and parking issues, but 2003 is so far back in demographics, it's kind of irrelevant for our purposes), Nipa Hot (again, which closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant), and TJ's Laser Tag (again, closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant for demographics today).

The Holleman H-E-B? Well, there was Gattitown, which you might be able to make an argument for. By the time Gattitown had closed, I hadn't been there in years, and by that time, Chuck E. Cheese's was open, which is essentially the same thing and frankly, I haven't heard of any moaning and groaning about another kid's pizza emporium, nor was it well missed. What else around the Holleman H-E-B? OK, there was Goody's, which went out of business chain wide and goes with the whole "chain wide issues". Blockbuster too, but the whole category has shrunk (and again, who's said recently "We need a video store"), Long John Silver's (drug bust).

All things being equal though, you can't have it both ways for "restaurants going out of business due to lousy food" and "B/CS has no taste, that's why fried chicken is popular".

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I don't live in a college student town? One that is 2 hours from both of the largest cities in the state?

You don't remember the places in the Lacks area,
Holleman, or Northgate as much as you pretend to remember if you just mentioned the few you did. Maybe you did exactly what I said and never went there like most others.

I get you need to pretend people want the stuff. But they don't.

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Like I've finally conceded, the college student demographic doesn't look good on paper, as it shows a bunch of people who are very poor, even if reality is different. While you're acting smug, I may remind you that I have also lived in this area as long as you have, and unlike you still live here, bound by circumstances.

The Mediterranean cafe on Welsh closed in an era before MyBCS and was completely hidden with almost no roadside sign.

The Lacks center had...a Quizno's, which closed, and a replacement sandwich shop, plus Kebab & Curry (which has FIVE one-star reviews on Yelp, and none of them are made by you know who), Spice Bowl (which again, wasn't very good and was functionally replaced by Taz anyway), and Prospector's (which was just a bar and did not pay rent, while the owners made up some BS about family issues). Northgate had...nothing spectacular. I devoted at least three years of my life to a blog nobody read as I attempted to research Northgate. OK, what was in Northgate?

There was Play Gaming Cafe, which I remember reading about but never could find (and I've never seen anyone ask for an Internet cafe anyway, plus 2005--on the verge of being irrelevant for our purposes), Burger Boy (owners retired and sold out), Crazy Cajuns' (went through several changes of hands, food deteriorated under last management), Texadelphia (which closed in 2003 due to rent and parking issues, but 2003 is so far back in demographics, it's kind of irrelevant for our purposes), Nipa Hot (again, which closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant), and TJ's Laser Tag (again, closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant for demographics today).

The Holleman H-E-B? Well, there was Gattitown, which you might be able to make an argument for. By the time Gattitown had closed, I hadn't been there in years, and by that time, Chuck E. Cheese's was open, which is essentially the same thing and frankly, I haven't heard of any moaning and groaning about another kid's pizza emporium, nor was it well missed. What else around the Holleman H-E-B? OK, there was Goody's, which went out of business chain wide and goes with the whole "chain wide issues". Blockbuster too, but the whole category has shrunk (and again, who's said recently "We need a video store"), Long John Silver's (drug bust).

All things being equal though, you can't have it both ways for "restaurants going out of business due to lousy food" and "B/CS has no taste, that's why fried chicken is popular".

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I don't live in a college student town? One that is 2 hours from both of the largest cities in the state?

You don't remember the places in the Lacks area,
Holleman, or Northgate as much as you pretend to remember if you just mentioned the few you did. Maybe you did exactly what I said and never went there like most others.

I get you need to pretend people want the stuff. But they don't.

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Since you seem content on being the smug, "informed" one, please list examples that you claim I'm missing.

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Like I've finally conceded, the college student demographic doesn't look good on paper, as it shows a bunch of people who are very poor, even if reality is different. While you're acting smug, I may remind you that I have also lived in this area as long as you have, nay, longer, and unlike you, still live here, bound by circumstances.

The Mediterranean cafe on Welsh closed in an era before MyBCS and was completely hidden with almost no roadside sign.

The Lacks center had...a Quizno's, which closed, and a replacement sandwich shop, plus Kebab & Curry (which has FIVE one-star reviews on Yelp, and none of them are made by you know who), Spice Bowl (which again, wasn't very good and was functionally replaced by Taz anyway), and Prospector's (which was just a bar and did not pay rent, while the owners made up some BS about family issues). Northgate had...nothing spectacular. I devoted at least three years of my life to a blog nobody read as I attempted to research Northgate. OK, what was in Northgate?

There was Play Gaming Cafe, which I remember reading about but never could find (and I've never seen anyone ask for an Internet cafe anyway, plus 2005--on the verge of being irrelevant for our purposes), Burger Boy (owners retired and sold out), Crazy Cajuns' (went through several changes of hands, food deteriorated under last management), Texadelphia (which closed in 2003 due to rent and parking issues, but 2003 is so far back in demographics, it's kind of irrelevant for our purposes), Nipa Hot (again, which closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant), and TJ's Laser Tag (again, closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant for demographics today).

The Holleman H-E-B? Well, there was Gattitown, which you might be able to make an argument for. By the time Gattitown had closed, I hadn't been there in years, and by that time, Chuck E. Cheese's was open, which is essentially the same thing and frankly, I haven't heard of any moaning and groaning about another kid's pizza emporium, nor was it well missed. What else around the Holleman H-E-B? OK, there was Goody's, which went out of business chain wide and goes with the whole "chain wide issues". Blockbuster too, but the whole category has shrunk (and again, who's said recently "We need a video store"), Long John Silver's (drug bust).

All things being equal though, you can't have it both ways for "restaurants going out of business due to lousy food" and "B/CS has no taste, that's why fried chicken is popular".

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I guess all those places that closed just weren't the type of food people want even though they say they want it.

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Are you trolling, being sarcastic, or are you really that dense?

Do you honestly think that's the only reason businesses close?

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So they closed despite making money from everyone on this board going there? They just decided after 4-8 months they didn't want to be in the restaurant business now?

People can scream from the rafters they want certain restaurants. But they don't support it and cane's thrives.

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You're using imaginary examples. Like how the "Denial of service" crowd have seriously convinced themselves that they're fighting against people who believe that discrimination against the blind people is okay and that Martha's Bloomers did nothing wrong, you are using examples that don't exist.

For example, please list a real business that people on this board (in the last 10 or so years) have "demanded", then didn't support, and it went out of business.

And while we're on imaginary examples, one of the businesses that doesn't support your Theory of Vast Oversimplification on Businesses was Taz Indian Cuisine, which closed in downtown Bryan because of one of the families that owned the business moved out of town and the remaining family couldn't manage both.

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How cute.
I guess you have not lived there for 15 years and watched everything that opened and left.

People claim they want ethnic foods. They usually don't stay. I loved Taz, but you really want to use that as an example?

So things people claim they want?

There was a Mediterranean restaurant on Welch that opened and closed. Everything in the Lacks center: Indian, Hawaiian, Homestyle, Cajun. The plethora of everything on Northgate. The things that have opened and closed around Holleman HEB.

I understand you feel obligated to pretend these people just wanted to stop having a restaurant, but no. People don't go to them and they close.

I live in a place now, the same size as CS, that does have the variety that people like you claim CS wants.

If CS wanted it, it would be there.

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Like I've finally conceded, the college student demographic doesn't look good on paper, as it shows a bunch of people who are very poor, even if reality is different. While you're acting smug, I may remind you that I have also lived in this area as long as you have, and unlike you still live here, bound by circumstances.

The Mediterranean cafe on Welsh closed in an era before MyBCS and was completely hidden with almost no roadside sign.

The Lacks center had...a Quizno's, which closed, and a replacement sandwich shop, plus Kebab & Curry (which has FIVE one-star reviews on Yelp, and none of them are made by you know who), Spice Bowl (which again, wasn't very good and was functionally replaced by Taz anyway), and Prospector's (which was just a bar and did not pay rent, while the owners made up some BS about family issues). Northgate had...nothing spectacular. I devoted at least three years of my life to a blog nobody read as I attempted to research Northgate. OK, what was in Northgate?

There was Play Gaming Cafe, which I remember reading about but never could find (and I've never seen anyone ask for an Internet cafe anyway, plus 2005--on the verge of being irrelevant for our purposes), Burger Boy (owners retired and sold out), Crazy Cajuns' (went through several changes of hands, food deteriorated under last management), Texadelphia (which closed in 2003 due to rent and parking issues, but 2003 is so far back in demographics, it's kind of irrelevant for our purposes), Nipa Hot (again, which closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant), and TJ's Laser Tag (again, closed so long ago it's kind of irrelevant for demographics today).

The Holleman H-E-B? Well, there was Gattitown, which you might be able to make an argument for. By the time Gattitown had closed, I hadn't been there in years, and by that time, Chuck E. Cheese's was open, which is essentially the same thing and frankly, I haven't heard of any moaning and groaning about another kid's pizza emporium, nor was it well missed. What else around the Holleman H-E-B? OK, there was Goody's, which went out of business chain wide and goes with the whole "chain wide issues". Blockbuster too, but the whole category has shrunk (and again, who's said recently "We need a video store"), Long John Silver's (drug bust).

All things being equal though, you can't have it both ways for "restaurants going out of business due to lousy food" and "B/CS has no taste, that's why fried chicken is popular".

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I don't live in a college student town? One that is 2 hours from both of the largest cities in the state?

You don't remember the places in the Lacks area,
Holleman, or Northgate as much as you pretend to remember if you just mentioned the few you did. Maybe you did exactly what I said and never went there like most others.

I get you need to pretend people want the stuff. But they don't.

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The BBQ place, the whatever place the owners of the chicken were doing, Asian food, sandwiches etc.

Lacks area

Hawaiian, Cajun, Indian, Comfort/Homestyle (whatever you want to call it), Sushi, and Sandwiches.

Around the Holleman HEB, a salad/sandwich/healthy food shop, Vietnamese, Sushi, ice cream and Korean.

By the SW Parkway Kroger, wraps, sandwiches, ice cream.

I understand. You need to feel they want something more than burgers and tacos.

But most places that don't serve those close.

Look at everything that was where Fontana's was. It was good food. But didn't serve Fried with a side of Ranch. So yeah, its gone.

I understand wanting to defend CS. But it isn't what it wants to be.

We can't all be CoMo.

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understand wanting to defend CS. But it isn't what it wants to be.

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Congrats for living in Missouri. Why are you on this board again?

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understand wanting to defend CS. But it isn't what it wants to be.

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Congrats for living in Missouri. Why are you on this board again?

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Because I posted in here for years before I moved and many of our closest friends live there.

Do you never comment on places you don't live in but once did?

I am simply pointing out being a college town is no excuse for the lack of variety if people want it.

Have a nice evening. I have to hide from tornados now.

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Um Northgate.
The BBQ place, the whatever place the owners of the chicken were doing, Asian food, sandwiches etc.

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Oh yeah, Church Street Blues & BBQ! The place that was never open at lunch or dinner. And there was that Korean food place at Kyoto Sushi. I guess that was okay, too. I'm not too sure why it went out of business, but that doesn't mean "the market can't support it". Happy Yogurt, that placed sucked. It was just microwaved crap (and not real Asian). Go to H-E-B, buy potstickers, heat them in the microwave in paper plates, and you get the exact same stuff Happy Yogurt served at a fraction of the price. Jin's Chinese Restaurant burned down (the one on Church, not the one that caught fire last summer).

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Hawaiian, Cajun, Indian, Comfort/Homestyle (whatever you want to call it), Sushi, and Sandwiches.

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Since you can't bother remembering any names, how do I know that you didn't just extrapolate something else? Sounds like you didn't know enough about any of them to make a judgement if they were actually any good or not, just assumed that if they went out of business, the community can't stand Indian food (or whatever).

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Around the Holleman HEB, a salad/sandwich/healthy food shop, Vietnamese, Sushi, ice cream and Korean.

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OK, the salad place was Doc Green's. According to a comment on my blog for someone that actually worked there, claims it was run by "disgruntled former Freebirds managers who thought they could run a restaurant better than Freebirds", and was a mess, constantly changing orders so the menu was inconsistent, never did the most basic things for restaurant use (like installing paper towel dispensers), etc. The sushi place is still there.

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By the SW Parkway Kroger, wraps, sandwiches, ice cream.

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Honey-B Ham & Deli closed a while back, and there used to be a TexAgs thread on it about Honey-B Ham & Deli closing from the owner, but I can't find it. It was in spring 2009, I think.

Roly Poly Rolled Sandwiches closed even earlier, and same with 32 Degrees. But we're talking things that closed 15 years ago now. Again, is that relevant anymore?

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Look at everything that was where Fontana's was. It was good food. But didn't serve Fried with a side of Ranch. So yeah, its gone.

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Actually, immediately following Fontana's was Fowl Digits and the attempted rebrand to Sully's. Foul Digits was in fact fried chicken (with a side of ranch, natch), and the food at Sully's added hamburgers and others and still wasn't very good.

Still not sure if you're trolling or not, but you are vastly, vastly oversimplifying things and jumping to somewhat absurd conclusions.

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http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/survey-shows-business-is-picking-up-at-b-cs-businesses/article_ec576bb8-f3db-5f14-81e4-c1910f86780f.html

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According to The Eagle, the BCS Chamber thinks the area is doing ok. They asked the businesses.

Everywhere I go in BCS, they are building and expanding like crazy.