What about Bob?? What about Dave?? What are they doing in Folsom??

 

    What is Bob from What about Bob?? and Dave who defeated Goliath in the Bible, have to do with these new businesses opening in Folsom. Well, Bob just opened a furniture store, so he meets the demand Marvin has to buy a new couch for his office and Dave is opening a new chicken restaurant to meet Jimmy Gourd's craving for some fried chicken (for those who know the VeggieTales rendition of the David and Goliath account). 

       Even though it isn't Bill Murray or King David opening these places, these are really new businesses opening in Folsom. Bob's Discount Furniture recently opened in the Broadstone Plaza shopping center where Stein Mart was formerly located, and a new chicken restaurant called Dave's Hot Chicken is opening in the Sam's Club, Best Buy, and REI center right next to Chipotle and Lazi Cow. 

Bob's Discount Furniture has been aggressively expanding across the country, opening stores and filling many popular retail spaces many of the stores that have closed or cut back operations operated at. They have also opened two other stores in the Sacramento area in Roseville and Elk Grove. Bob's Discount Furniture sells Furniture, Mattresses, and Home Decor. Their Folsom store opened in May of 2022. Bob's Discount Furniture started in 1991 by Bob Kaufmann in Newington, Connecticut and has expanded to currently operate 150 stores across the United States. They are one of the few low-cost furniture companies in the United States and they do this by "buying straight from the manufacturers and by not offering brand labels," according to Housing Digest.

Dave's Hot Chicken has also been expanding rapidly, along with the apparent craze of the Nashville Hot Chicken scene with many new chicken restaurants opening in our area- Mom and Pop Chicken Shop in Cameron Park, Roostarz in El Dorado Hills, and Von's Chicken Shop in Folsom, all during 2020-2021. My own personal experience with Dave's Hot Chicken was when we went to San Bernardino to visit my brother Caleb. My family and I didn't eat there, but we witnessed a line out the door at the restaurant similar to those at a Best Buy or any store on Black Friday. I was wondering, is this place really good and really popular and likely to become the next KFC or Chick fil A, or is it a new fad that will dissipate after the grand opening and close in a few years?? Only time will tell when I see the Folsom location. Maybe I will need to try it if there is anything I can eat there to judge that. Dave's Hot Chicken was started by Dave Kopushyan, who was a chef trained by Thomas Keller of the French Laundary, Arman Oganesyan, and Tommy and Gary Rubenyan, at a stand in a parking lot in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 2017. Their goal is to create the perfect (the best) Hot Chicken with their juiciness, tenderness, and the spices made in the process. They plan to open the restaurant location in 2022 and there are two other locations in the works in the Sacramento area, in Arden Arcade and Fair Oaks. They currently have 61 locations and plans to open 500+ locations according to Vetted Biz. 

         For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.                                 

                                                                                                               John 3:16.

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