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CA. has its issues, but its positives still greatly outshine the negatives for a lot of businesses. I had dinner the other night at the "soft opening" of a new restaurant, (not open to general public yet). The owner and his partners already have 5 or 6 absolutely hopping places running, they are talented and hire the best people to cook the food but the point is that you could not do what these guys are doing in fly-over America. THere just are not enough people who go out to eat and are willing to pay for great, interesting food outside of NY and LA to support this many businesses.

Before someone jumps down my throat over that statement, my home town of Minneapolis could support maybe one or two of their places but not 6 of them. There are creative people, (I count restaurant entrepreneurs as creative), with brains and guts making $$ hand over fist in CA.