Reddit user Santa_Says_Who_Dis recently asked the question, “What is a business or franchise that is badly needed in the Cleveland area?” The responses flooded in, with answers ranging from supermarkets and fried chicken places to taco joints, wholesale store brand liquor, breakfast buffets and more. We rounded up the best responses and are sharing them here with you, because when it comes to knowing Cleveland and robust discussions, the Cleveland Subreddit can’t be beat.
IKEA
Via Spacetop-Odyssey/Reddit Credit:MRApplegate/Flickr CCBrunch buffet. Big spread with lots of options and an unhurried atmosphere.
Via Nomadt/Reddit Credit:LindadeMartinez/Flickr CCA place that makes good big breakfast burritos. Like Chipotle 10 years ago sized burritos with egg and cheese and bacon and some season potatoes.
Every place I try to get one from just microwaves some premade crap.
Via Kdogg573/Reddit Credit:JeffreyW/Flickr CCBuccees
Via Jar3D/Reddit Credit:Amy the Nurse/Flickr CCJack-in-the-Box and Del Taco.
Now that I think about it, they are sort of mirror images of each other: A burger place with taco stuff and a taco place with burger stuff. Work occasionally takes me to Detroit, where Del Taco has several locations, and I turn into a gross little fatty.
Via OriginalJBW/Reddit Credit:Thomas Hawk/Flickr CCH-Mart
Via The5thKidd/Reddit Credit:Kevin Chan/Flickr CCI’m begging for a fast casual chain that does build your own big ass salads. I am dying for some healthier options. I love core life and would love to see it expand. Or a Cava/Sweet Green/Jason’s deli. I should see those places more frequently than a McDonald’s every two miles.
Via 7054MB/Reddit Credit:Ehipien/Flickr CCTotal Wine
Via Ris12693/Reddit Credit:RetailRyan/Flickr CCSpent a week in Charleston, SC last year and was blown away by this place Vicious Biscuit and its’ efficiency + obvious profitability, and I think it’d kill up here. Gluten free buttermilk biscuits with fried eggs and bacon for breakfast? Fuck me running. And it was like $8.
Via Plumangus/Reddit Credit:Vicious Biscuit/FacebookHonestly – a good quality fast-casual salad place like Sweet Green. It’s so hard to find a good salad to just grab for a quick lunch!
Via UnlimitedMeatballs/Reddit Credit:Tony Webster/Flickr CCSince Portillo’s was already mentioned we also need Lou Malnati’s. Columbus is getting both soon.
Via Cubsguy81/Reddit Credit:Dale Cruse/Flickr CCCleveland proper NEEDS an IMAX theater. Preferably in tower city.
Via PatrzenoK/Reddit Credit:Willy Feng/Flickr CCTim Horton’s
Via DEEZRUNTZGOTEMM/Reddit Credit:Gardener41/Flickr CCWinCo Foods!
Via GameTillDawn84/Reddit Credit:Rick Obst/Flickr CCIn and Out Burger
Via GBuckeye67/Reddit Credit:Mike Mozart/Flickr CCKroger
Via Packman1101/Reddit Credit:Kipp Teague/Flickr CCIt’s criminal Cleveland doesn’t have a White Castle anymore. Especially considering the lack of late night food in this city
Via Space-Sailor4/Reddit Credit:Soupstance/Flickr CCLidl
Via Que-Sara_Sera44118/Reddit Credit:Klara_Bella/Flickr CCSince Portillo’s was already mentioned we also need Lou Malnati’s. Columbus is getting both soon.
Via Cubsguy81/Reddit Credit:Dale Cruse/Flickr CCNeed a cookout or Zaxby’s
Via Rough_Rip_953/Reddit Credit:Bob B. Brown/Flickr CCNandos. Why are they in the DC and Chicago areas? Bring them here!
Via Severe-Criticism3876/Reddit Credit:John K. Thorne/Flickr CCPei Wei
Via GBuckeye67/Reddit Credit:Pockafwye/Flickr CCWegmans grocery stores. Most you Ohioans don’t know what you’re missing.
Via TheLandFanIn814/Reddit Credit:Holcombe of Hidalgo/Flickr CCRecycling Centers
Via Heartbreakids/Reddit Credit: Scene ArchivesNot a franchise but I wish Costco was able to sell their Kirkland brand liquor in Ohio.
Via CruzeControll/Reddit Credit:Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr CCRoosters. Central and southern Ohio people know what’s up.
Via GGS2661/Reddit Credit:Kurt Wagner/Flickr CCSokolowski’s
And Lido Lounge (RIP)
Via B_Moss18/Reddit Credit: Scene ArchivesI’m begging for a fast casual chain that does build your own big ass salads. I am dying for some healthier options. I love core life and would love to see it expand. Or a Cava/Sweet Green/Jason’s deli. I should see those places more frequently than a McDonald’s every two miles.
Via 7054MB/Reddit Credit:Ehipien/Flickr CCPatiently waiting for a Bojangles
Via Morgan7446/Reddit Credit:Kazamustri/Flickr CCJungle Jim’s
Via Jokar1134/Reddit Credit:Julie Sweeney/Flickr CC