Jade Jackson may be the next big country-rock star. But first, she has some tables to wait
SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. - She pedals her vintage pink beach cruiser up to the entryway of the Range restaurant, drops the kickstand and, without pausing to chain and lock it to anything, opens a wrought-iron gate and directs a visitor through a foliage-covered archway onto the cozy patio of her family's dining establishment.
Jade Jackson is wearing the restaurant's standard issue brown T-shirt over blue denim jeans and oxblood Western boots. It's a couple of hours before she'll tie on an apron and get to work seating guests, informing them about the tomato bisque soup, arugula-grapefruit salad and sand dabs that are the day's specials, then taking their orders.
Soon her brother and head chef, Cheynn (pronounced Shane), arrives to take the helm in the kitchen of the eatery their mother and father, Jeff and Lindsay Jackson, opened 14 years ago in this rural Central California farming and artist community of 1,259 that occupies about half a square mile along El Camino Real roughly 30 miles east of San Luis
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