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(This is a biography I wrote for Giant Noise.) Patrick Terry Owner of P. Terry’s Burger Stand In the midst of an ever-changing city, one man strives to maintain originality and simplicity. Patrick Terry is a self-proclaimed creature of habit. He begins his... More

(This is a biography I wrote for Giant Noise.) Patrick Terry Owner of P. Terry’s Burger Stand In the midst of an ever-changing city, one man strives to maintain originality and simplicity. Patrick Terry is a self-proclaimed creature of habit. He begins his day by stopping at the Lamar location of P. Terry’s for the usual: coffee and banana bread. He knows this routine well; he performs it seven days a week. But his days did not always begin with the comfort of banana bread. Terry and his wife donned the official P. Terry’s white uniforms right alongside employees from 7 a.m. to midnight during the first 2 and a half years of the store’s opening. The beginning set the tone and helped launch the business that has six Austin locations with two more opening in 2013. While having always dreamed of opening his own burger stand, Terry took the plunge in 2005 after reading a critique of the industry, “Fast Food Nation.” Unable to swallow the realities of the typical quick-grab American meal, t Less