Almost Vader

A few weeks ago, burger chain Almost Famous went belly up – insolvent – and they sacked hundreds of workers without notice. It’s a shame, for the workers first of all, on low wages as it was, without being made redundant. But the burgers, from the one time I went, I recall were decent. 

Sadly that memory is tainted by circumstance: being stalked by a low-EQ older bloke and coerced into some kind of double date with him, his wife and a totally unsuitable girl who had been checking me out for months – even when she was in a relationship herself. The whole situation I detailed last July. I don’t speak to any of them any more. Lots of other, usually standalone, burger joints have opened and closed as the country recovers from the pandemic. Byron was another chain. Handmade Burger Co. Karen’s Diner. Gourmet Burger Kitchen. Jamie’s Italian. Plenty of other types of restaurants like fitness food joints: Kettlebell Kitchen, and a couple of similar ones in Oldham and Manchester that have long since fallen out of my mind. It’s tough out there. 

In other news, Spencer Wilding - Darth Vader in The Last Jedi – liked my picture of him on Insta. 

I also got 6K likes on this jokey comment.

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