Dead mall food courts tell you way more about a town than the anchor stores do

Jamie Ramirez · 2026-09-22T09:25:03.534893+00:00

Everyone posts the same pics of the old Macy's and the busted escalator, but the food court tells the real story. At the one in Lima, Ohio, I counted 9 spots and every single sign was a local place, no chains at all, which means that mall was the only game in town for people who wanted to eat somewhere that wasn't a diner. What's the weirdest local spot you've found still hanging on in a dead food court?

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