While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit small businesses hard, the restaurant Mr. Fries Man has been able to expand and franchise. Craig Batiste wanted to start a unique business. "It started in my ...

Mr. Fries Man is a family-owned restaurant that got its start in Gardena, California. Now, it's franchised across the country and here in Utah! We checked out the location in Jordan Landing. The ...

Batiste carries some 50,000 Instagram followers, and has for years been operating out of a home kitchen doing delivery and pick-up plates of loaded fries. There’s always around half a dozen different ...

There are lots of places in Los Angeles where you can get great loaded fries. But one home chef is carving out a niche for himself in Gardena. Craig Batiste goes by the name Mr. Fries Man. His menu, ...

My first encounter with Mr Fries Man happened on Instagram. Scrolling through my feed one day I came across a photo he had posted of a giant mound of French fries covered in a shrimp and lemon garlic ...

Throughout South Los Angeles and the surrounding neighborhoods there’s a growing community of underground home chefs who sell food on Instagram. One of those chefs, a guy who goes by the name Mr.

Craig Batiste isn’t your typical culinary superstar — he doesn’t have a résumé that includes staging at any of the city’s best restaurants, he’s adamant about the fact that he isn’t a chef, and his ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit small businesses hard, the restaurant Mr. Fries Man has been able to expand and franchise. Craig Batiste wanted to start a unique business. "It started in my ...