Mr. Baguette, Challenger To Lee's Sandwiches, Opens in Little Saigon

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 17, 2015
If Lee's Sandwiches is the McDonald's of banh mi, Mr. Baguette would be its Burger King. That is, if Burger King only did business in San Gabriel Valley and didn't expand to more than three branches. But let's rewind 11 years when Pulitzer...
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