Genuine question for NO natives. If it's sacrilege to eat at Chipotle in NO, how is it even still open? Somebody must like to eat there right enough for it to remain open and it can't just be out of towners eating there.
It’s a broader question of local culture vs suburban living
Even when I lived in Denton, tx, I was able to find 3-4 ‘local’ haunts that I preferred so much more than say the vast chain restaurant wasteland of something like Richardson, Tx
If you’re in a city where chipotle or outback are your best options, that’s completely sad
But if you move to a place and don’t bother to actually integrate into the culture, you’re just a permanent tourist
And that’s just problematic on a variety of levels