#Jungle

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Video thumbnail — 2003 Rainforest Cafe commercial
Trends 1994–present

Rainforest Café

A jungle-themed restaurant chain founded by Steven Schussler, with the first location opening in October 1994 at the Mall of America in Minnesota. Diners ate surrounded by animatronic animals, aquariums, fake tropical rainstorms with thunder and lightning, and the constant squawk of electronic birds. Rainforest Café epitomized 1990s themed entertainment and the mall culture experience.