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…When you talk about permits, famously, a lot of cities make it harsh to open a restaurant. San Francisco people have a lot of complaints. One of the innovations that you see these days in restaurant culture is the food truck gardens and food truck collections. I always find those bittersweet, where often you have really cool new concepts and stuff, but we have societally lost the ability to allow people to open restaurants and therefore, we're reduced to a collection of food trucks in a parking lot somewhere. Are permits getting better or worse? I think in general, similar to building things, they've gotten largely worse on average. That doesn't mean there aren't cities who aren't green-lighting and making it a lot easier. In fact, if you look at some of the fastest-growing cities in the country, they tend to also be the fastest-growing cities for restaurants. Not a shock. It's probably not San Francisco. Phoenix and Austin, these places are doing a good job of permits.…

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