BAKER >> In this Mojave Desert stopover halfway between Barstow and Las Vegas, Luis Ramallo has carved out a niche in the bustling billion-dollar-a-year beef jerky industry with his Alien Fresh Jerky ...

With some 750,000 annual visitors to the storefront, the jerky there has become so popular that owner Luis Ramallo is banking on a little extended marketing to bring the alien branding to a full-sized ...

Luis Ramallo is a dreamer — and now he wants you to back his dreams for a UFO Hotel in Baker, Calif. The owner of Alien Fresh Jerky has launched a Kickstarter campaign to persuade you — lots of yous — ...

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