What "Original Locations" have you been to?

In My Humble Opinion
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Waffle House: Come in Hungry, Leave on Probation

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I went to Dreamland BBQ’s original location in Tuscalosa AL, now they have 10 locations in AL and GA.

Ain’t nothing like ’em nowhere.

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I’ve been to the original Dunkin Donuts in Quincy (more than 50 years after it opened) and the original St Louis Bread Co. now Panera in the first year or two of its existence (in 1990). It was a small chain at the time and very, very good.

I’ve been to Cafe du Monde in New Orleans’ Jackson Square. I believe it has multiple locations now but not in the same format as the mothership. I know there was one in Atlanta in the late 1990s, but was just a counter service place next to the MARTA (Transit) station. It’s no longer there. The only locations appear to be in New Orleans and suburbs.

I also went to the original 99 Ranch Market (Asian Supermarket) in 1995 or 1996. I was amazed to see an Asian market in the format of an American supermarket (over 40,000 square feet, wide aisles, proper signs and price labels, a dozen cash registers). There are a whole bunch of them now, but it was quite unique 30 years ago. At the time they had a few locations in Los Angeles area and the Bay Area. Apparently they are now in 69 locations.

I hear that Five Guys has “reopened their original location” but the whole shopping area that they were in has been torn down and the new location is in a mixed used (residential/office/retail) building that has replaced it. I have not eaten there. I’ve actually only been to Five Guys three times, and each time it’s because I was outvoted by my lunch companions. I’m not sure of going to that “original location” would qualify in the spirit of this thread. But the “Original Dunkin” was also torn down and rebuilt, but as far as I know was only closed for a short time during construction, not for years or decades like the Five Guys one.

I used to regularly eat at the original KC Masterpiece restaurant in Kansas City when they were a small chain with locations in St Louis and Chicago as well as KC, but I see they are long gone.