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Re: Grilled Cheese restaurant wants to open as many as 20 Houston locations
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If there was a way to short this concept, I’d gladly do this. Seriously, can this market really support 20 grilled-cheese sandwich shops? I make my grilled-cheese sandwiches at home – and don’t need an audience to watch me.
In some places (like Phoenix) they use rubberized asphalt on freeways, and I can attest it is very, very quiet. Presumably not usable in this climate, and it would be extremely expensive to retrofit existing concrete pavement.
They put asphalt down on 59 and it’s significantly quieter. I always assumed though that asphalt vs. concrete was a cost/benefit decision, i.e. asphalt is cheap but doesn’t last long, concrete is expensive but lasts much longer.
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Phoenix is also hotter than Houston, so I’d be surprised if climate was a reason.