Are you a trucker? Maybe 0.3% of my meals come from highway exits. Most of my meals are from near my home.

> They can't effectively compete with major chains

I don't think they were suggesting a couple Mom & Pop shops become national chains. I think they were suggesting that collectively Mom & Pop shops could compete against the chains. If everyone replaced 50% of their chain fast food meals with mom & pop shops then each mom & pop shop might only see a small bump in orders but that would be devastating to the chains.