prime rib

Brandy Jones and Justin Patterson were hoping to find a restaurant with prime rib on the menu as they walked along the main street in this small Central Michigan town of about 1,750.

The menu has also expanded, with fancier-feeling dishes like Jameson crab bisque, a seared ahi tuna sandwich and a prime rib banh mi joining old AC favorites like poutine and fish and chips.

The South Korean team’s meal planning—a microwave appeared from a box to warm up bao one day, prime rib the next—kept up spirits despite the language barrier.

This notion is particularly powerful at Christmastime, when consumers buy 70% of all prime rib sold in the United States in a given year, according to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Lawry’s the Prime Rib, which still offers the “Diamond Jim Brady Cut,” was among the first of these restaurants, opening its original Los Angeles location in 1938.