Mama's Snack Shack Compton

The burgers at @mamasnackshackburger, Addy Pool’s tiny walk-up counter in Compton, are designed to taste like they came from her home kitchen. It’s the way she learned how to make burgers when she started working at the now-closed Three Bears Burgers in Vermont Vista as an eager 19-year-old in the early ‘90s.

Later, she perfected her technique at the Original Snack Shack in Central-Alameda, where she worked for more than two decades until the restaurant shuttered.

Last summer, she opened Mama’s Snack Shack in the former Bludso’s Bar & Cue space in Compton.

“We make the chili and everything else every single day,” she tells @jenn_harris_. “We make the fries to order. Every product I have is fresh. I tell my customers that the only old thing in the kitchen is me.”

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