Second Generation Restaurants
New restaurants began popping up in the smaller towns surrounding Providence as they grew larger in size. Many of the new restaurant owners were younger members of the original families of the "anchor restaurants", but many were also immigrants moving from another field of work into the restaurant business. These businesses settled into new communities, carrying with them similar menus of "American Chinese food" and building deep relationships with local residents. The stories of the relationships between restaurant owners and regulars echo with those from the "anchor restaurants", including tales of customers coming in at the same time every day.
Chinese Americans did not often go to these restaurants, because of the Americanized Chinese food served which drew in more "American" (usually meaning Euro-American) customers than Chinese ones. But this time period also saw the opening or re-branding of restaurants that now served more authentic food, such as Cantonese dishes or dim sum, for both Chinese Americans and adventurous patrons of other ethnicities.