Ever since I was a kid going to Target was a special event, and still is. The prices are great, they have everything you need, you go into the store for one thing and come out with twenty. Back in the year 1990, only thirty years ago, Target unveiled a series of cafe style restaurants in select stores, by the name of Food Avenue, today they are almost nowhere to be found and have been replaced commonly with a Starbucks or Pizza Hut, sometimes both. It’s sad to say after such a short lived experience, the Target Cafe in my local Target in South Portland Maine was closed around 2015 and replaced with a Starbucks coffee shop when there is a Starbucks location 600 feet away from the Target superstore. 

If there’s one thing missing in my shopping experience, that I notice every time, it’s those golden popped kernels, it’s those little red bags, it’s a Nathan’s hot dog all washed down with a perfectly chilled icee. Please, Target, these times are nostalgic to myself and many others. I hope you, CEO Brian Cornell, can consider reopening a few of these target cafe’s and help to fulfill my desire to eat a large bag of target popcorn in one big chomp by unhinging my jaw. Thank you.