What's CookingTwo brothers give customers a great environment to relax and just hang out in.
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Richie Cunningham had one; so did Jack Tripper. One of the mostpopular elements in TV history has been the "hangout."Much like that classic haunt, Cheers, the idea for Hard TimesCafé was to create a place where everybody knows yourname.
A former graphic designer, Fred Parker never had a place to hangout . . . so he created his own. In 1980, with no background in therestaurant business, he and his brother Jim became co-founders ofthe Hard Times Café by matching their family's chili withsome good beer and country music. The result was a bonafide hit."It became incredibly popular," says Fred. "We'dhave lines around the block. It was so successful we had to buildothers."
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