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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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