Raising Cane’s Plans to Expand into NE Arkansas with Jonesboro Location Popular American fast-food chain Raising Cane’s has its sights set on northeast Arkansas. The company has plans to open a new location in Jonesboro next year, a source revealed…
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The Chick-fil-A located in North Little Rock’s McCain Mall closed on Saturday after 37 years of serving the location. A note on the food court restaurant’s door offered no explanation, but simply read, “Permanently Closing. Saturday, 7/31/2021, will be our…
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Custom Craft Poultry Opens New Processing Plant in Little Rock
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffCustom Craft Poultry will be opening a new poultry processing plant in Little Rock on Asher Avenue. The Arkansas-headquartered company has remodeled the former Odom’s Tennessee Pride plant located on Asher Avenue as part of a $10 million project. In…
By Curtis Lanning Not far from Damascus sits Rabbit Ridge Farms. Just how rural is this place? Alan Mahan, who runs the farm with his wife, says it is seven miles away from a traffic signal, and getting a jug…
- February 2019MagazinePeople
Hall of Famer: John W. Tyson 1905 – 1967
by Caleb Talleyby Caleb TalleyBy Caleb Talley |Â Historic photos courtesy of Shiloh Museum of Ozark History John W. Tyson was born in the northwest Missouri community of Mound City. In 1931, during the height of the Great Depression, Tyson moved his family south to…
- January 2019Magazine
Playing Chicken: Fayetteville’s Slim Chickens Takes on the Big Boys
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaBy Dwain Hebda | Photography Courtesy of Slim Chickens Five years ago, Thrillist.com posted a graphic in the shape of the U.S. identifying the most iconic fast food brands from each state. Just to the right of Texas (Whataburger), south…