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The rise of Salt Lake City pop-up restaurants

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Michael Lee Around the third time Quyen Pham held her Vietnamese pop-up Sisters, she couldn’t believe the turnout. Looking out the service window inside Liberty Wells’ Picnic Cafe, the tables were packed. There was a line out the door. It was like taking a peek at the audience from behind the curtain before a play.

And for Pham, it was a sign that she had made it. “That’s when I was like, ‘Oh, people are wanting something different, and that’s what they’re waiting here for,’” she said.

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