Two hours left on my 12 hour day of driving and I was exhausted, had to stop at the next rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, 9PM on this Saturday two months ago. I was pleasantly surprised, you could immediately see it was newly renovated with snappy brands all in a row, Panda Express, Shake Shake, Chick Fil A. I end up seated directly…
Two hours left on my 12 hour day of driving and I was exhausted, had to stop at the next rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, 9PM on this Saturday two months ago. I was pleasantly surprised, you could immediately see it was newly renovated with snappy brands all in a row, Panda Express, Shake Shake, Chick Fil A. I end up seated directly across from Panda Express Nursing a Diet Pepsi watching as a number of Hispanic Families filed through the Panda Express service line ordering their "Chinese" dinner, in Spanish, to the Hispanic servers working on the other side of the steamtables. I thought it was a wonderful, hopeful snapshot of America 2023, but I guess to others not so much.
Two hours left on my 12 hour day of driving and I was exhausted, had to stop at the next rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, 9PM on this Saturday two months ago. I was pleasantly surprised, you could immediately see it was newly renovated with snappy brands all in a row, Panda Express, Shake Shake, Chick Fil A. I end up seated directly across from Panda Express Nursing a Diet Pepsi watching as a number of Hispanic Families filed through the Panda Express service line ordering their "Chinese" dinner, in Spanish, to the Hispanic servers working on the other side of the steamtables. I thought it was a wonderful, hopeful snapshot of America 2023, but I guess to others not so much.
I often say...only in America do we have Koren Japanese restaurants staffed by Mexicans serving something no one from Japan or Korea would recognize.
At my local Pho restaurant, you tell the staff a level of picante.
Having mastered pho, the staff now sells tamales and pozole as well.
The American Dream!
OMG I love that so much!!