In the annals of American restaurant history, this decade’s likely to go down as the era of cost trimming. Anxious restaurateurs have replaced people with self-service kiosks, swapped out pine nuts for walnuts in pesto, shrunk the amount of beef in their burgers, and nixed every nicety, including bread baskets and soda refills. As operational costs mount, customers feel lucky to get a seat and a drinks list.
World Famous offers neither. Yet the fleet of eight eggroll trucks, in near-constant circulation across Florida and Georgia, is the source of one of the most accomplished and satisfying dining experiences to emerge in this region since the onset of the pandemic.
