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Food Court Favorites From The '90s That Barely Exist Today By Jay Wilson Oct. 19, 2025 6:19 pm EST
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For people of a certain age, nothing evokes a feeling of nostalgia quite like a mall food court. These days, food courts are not quite a thing of the past, but they're definitely spaces that are seeing their last days. As consumer habits have changed and people spend less time in malls and more time shopping online, there's less of an emphasis on the kind of quick bites you'd formerly find in food courts, and more weight is given to full-service restaurant experiences. Back in the '90s, though, things were very different. That decade was the age of fast food, and there was nowhere better to find all of those greasy, sugary, sal