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How chain restaurants lean into nostalgia

Chain restaurants are familiar, comfortable and everywhere. The food is not out-of-this-world, so why do these restaurants stoke such big emotions in us?

NPR’s Jaclyn Diaz and Alana Wise went to find out.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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