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Fat Ho Lakita Evans

WACO (March 24, 2011)--Lakita Evans, 23, whose just-opened Fat Ho Burgers restaurant in South Waco is receiving nationwide attention, said Thursday she doesn’t know why she’s getting so much criticism about her choice of a name for the business.

"I don't know why they are talking bad about the restaurant, I mean all this is my money and I struggled," Evans said Thursday.

"I had to sell my car, my tires, my television, my laptop, and my computer to get this up,” she said.

Evans is one of six children reared by a single mother in Waco and Marlin, and the only one of the six to graduate from college.

"She's been working ever since she was 16-years-old and had to walk to school and walk home late at night," Evans' mother, Shirley Evans said Thursday.

The restaurant opened Tuesday to a crowd of curious diners and business was so good on Wednesday that the cash-only business first ran out of cash and then used up its supply of beef.

Lunch-hour diners waited in line for 30 minutes or longer Wednesday and for most the attraction was the new restaurant’s provocative name.

"I just wanted to see what all the talk was about,” one diner said.

The restaurant on South 11th Street near Interstate 35 got plenty of press ahead of the opening thanks to its name, which Evans said was inspired by the movie “Phat Girlz.”

"I was watching “Phat Girlz”…and they had like a fat ass burger and skinny ass fries,” she said.

The Fat Ho menu includes such choices as a “Supa Fly Ho,” which is a single-patty burger, and a “Supa Dupa Fly Ho,” which is a double.

Not all of the buzz has been positive, however.

One former Waco resident has created a Facebook group asking Evans to come up with a different name for the business.

The group, Keep Waco Positive, sent a letter to Evans that said, “Naming your business Fat Ho Burgers is neither funny nor cute.”

The group says the name glamorizes misogyny or the hatred of women.

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