{"id":273242,"date":"2015-05-04T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/worlds-friendliest-restaurant-serves-breakfast-lunch-and-hugs\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:32:00","slug":"worlds-friendliest-restaurant-serves-breakfast-lunch-and-hugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/05\/04\/worlds-friendliest-restaurant-serves-breakfast-lunch-and-hugs\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Friendliest Restaurant Serves Breakfast, Lunch And Hugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The atmosphere at Tim\u2019s Place, in Albuquerque, is so positive that patrons often call it the \u2018world\u2019s friendliest restaurant\u2019. OddityCentral<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n

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The owner, 26-year-old Tim Harris, wants his customers perfectly comfortable, so he personally hugs every one of them. Tim\u2019s hugs have become so popular that they are now listed on the menu as described as a \u201ccalorie-free\u201d, \u201cguilt-free\u201d treat that guarantees to \u201cimprove your lease on life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim\u2019s Place has been around since 2010, and Tim has given out over 19,000 hugs in the past five years \u2013 he keeps count using a special Hug Counter. \u201cI love giving all the customers a hug because I want them to feel comfortable and connected and being around friends,\u201d said Tim explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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But it\u2019s not just the hugs that make Tm\u2019s Place so special, but the owner\u2019s life story, as well. Tim is probably the only Down syndrome sufferer in the U.S. to own a restaurant. \u201cWe started to ponder when he was young about his future and made the choice that we wanted to create a life for him that was as close to typical as possible,\u201d Keith Harris, Tim\u2019s father, said. So he and his wife Jeanne decided to raise all their sons with the same expectations, without making any concessions for Tim. It turns out that their strategy worked beautifully \u2013 none of Tim\u2019s brothers are actually as successful as he is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The atmosphere at Tim\u2019s Place, in Albuquerque, is so positive that patrons often call it the \u2018world\u2019s friendliest restaurant\u2019. OddityCentral has more: The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}