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Makes me think of Jacks Diner in Chico. Cheapest, best after bar food.

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I worked at Jack's as a bus boy for three months. Not my favorite job, at all.

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This brings back a lot of memories about the greasy spoon that, for many decades, was the only restaurant open year round in our small New England town.

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I've only gotten food poisoning at Country Clubs.

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I think of the disappearance of these places as yet another sign of the decline of civilization, plus where are wayward teenage girls and boys going to be hired, able to eat leftovers in the kitchen, and learn the fine art of hating your job?.....(and p.s., thank you so much for recomending my newsletter! It's never happened before. Got kind of teary.)

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