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My childhood was well before K-Mart came along, at least in my town. The Woolworth lunch counter was really good, but part of that was probably because I was a kid. There eventually were several K-Marts where I live now, but I don't recall them having a lunch counter.
As far as I know, all the K-Marts that were here are closed now. There are about 15 Walmart Super Centers though.
I said Woolworths, but we also had Grants and Kresge’s. All had yummy lunch counters.
We had Woolworth's, Newberry's, and Kress all downtown and on the same block. In Meridian, Mississippi. This was in the days before everything moved to the suburbs (suburbs didn't really exist when I was a child, at least in my town).
Woolworth's used to have ballons you could pick, to get a discount on a banana split or black cow float (aka root beer float). Inside the balloon was a price from 1-55 cents or 1-45 cents. 55 cents and 45 cents being the regular price for banana split and root beer float, respectively. I thought I was really lucky because on 2 occasions I got the 1 cent prize (one of each).
We didn't have a K-Mart near us where I grew up (suburban Essex County NJ) so I only visited their restaurant as an adult. Not as impressive as when you're a kid winning prizes!
I really remember the Woolworth lunch counter and the prize balloons. We did not go there very often. There is a largely intact Woolworth's lunch counter in a civil right's museum in Greensboro, NC.
I do not remember K-Mart having a cafe. What I do remember is that they sold a package of five or six cheap lunch meat sandwiches that occasionally, we would buy in lieu of school lunches.
Mom and I would go and pop a balloon to find out how much our banana splits would cost.
That was back when we lived in Ma. and Maine, 1960's.
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