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Chain restaurants are everywhere. How do they stay alive? : NPR
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Chain restaurants are everywhere. How do they stay alive? : NPR

Some of the nations largest restaurants boast of decades-long survival through economic downturns, stiffer competition, and changing American palates. And we still love them anyway. Why?