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Cook Out expands its Columbia footprint — no store in Chapin, but a signal about where the chain is growing

Cook Out is expanding again in Columbia — a seventh Midlands store at 1331 Roberts Branch Parkway. Chapin still does not have its own location. But the chain's clustering pattern says something about where growth in the Midlands is happening.

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