12 Businesses Patch Readers Want In Fredericksburg ICYMI

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Is there a certain kind of business that is missing in Fredericksburg? A type of restaurant you can't find in town? An activity you have to travel miles away for? Or is there another specialty store you could use?

Fairfax Patch recently asked our Facebook followers which businesses they want to see open in town. Lots of you had food in mind, with suggestions for both chain restaurants and regional eateries. Easily the most requested business, however, was Trader Joe's, the eclectic specialty foods stores.

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Marilyn Allen was the first to point out Trader Joe's, and many more followed suit, some with simply the single word, "Traders."

Types of foods on the wish list included such things as places that sell soup, sweet tomatoes and pretty much anything in Whole Foods.

You told us, and we rounded up the most popular responses. In no particular order, except for Traders, here's what readers said:

• Trader Joe's
• Container Store
• Dave & Busters
• McAlister's Deli
• PF Changs
• Hard Rock Cafe
• In-N-Out Burger
• Sam's Club
• Zaxby's
• Cheesecake Factory
• Whole Foods
• Church's Chicken

One reader had something of a different take as to what she'd like to see: "Better city planning, additional high traffic way across the river and shoulders on roads so there is room for emergency vehicles to get through."

Image via Trader Joe's