# Tell us about your local/regional restaurant chains **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 17, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-local-regional-restaurant-chains/973392 "2022-10-17T22:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 182
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-local-regional-restaurant-chains/973392/182 "2024-09-09T21:18:34Z")
One of the more frequently encountered restaurants in SE England - though their range is extending - is Bills. It’s affordable and does things like avocado toast and scrambled eggs and …. Harmless things, really. Nice enough, but surprising that there was a gap in the market for it. But what interests me is this: I knew Bill’s before it was a restaurant, let alone a chain. Back in the day it was a trendy grocery store in Lewes (god, I have posted so many times about Lewes), on the south coast pretty much due south of London. Then they opened up a few tables selling amiable snacks as an extension of the grocery - we used to go there often back then, as it was cheap and rather good. And we have watched with a degree of puzzlement as it grew. Nearing 100 branches now. I would never have thought that would happen with such a simple idea. j --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-local-regional-restaurant-chains/973392)._