And that restaurant was smack in the middle of one of about a dozen Texas counties that has been receiving a greater per capita share of the pandemic-fighting vaccines than just about every other region of the state.
The disparity did not go unnoticed by Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Laredo, who just a few days earlier had complained to reporters that he had "to beg the governor's office" to get what he called a fair share of the Texas-bound vaccines to the counties in his district.
"Webb County hasn't been getting what it should be getting," Cuellar said in a recent interview about his home county along the Rio Grande. "Similar areas like Lubbock or Smith County (in East Texas), they're around the same population ... but Lubbock gets double the number of people who are fully vaccinated.