Several things you will know about Manuel Sagarbarria when you have stayed in Dumaguete long enough to start feeling like a native.

That he, for example, was once the traffic czar of Dumaguete City, easily transforming that sensitive position for a spot in the City Council on the strength of a name that has become, for better or for worse, a kind of a local "brand."

That, as the owner of the famous Scooby's chain of restaurants, he is the undisputed fastfood and Internet café king of the small city, surprisingly easily holding his own against the recent encroachment of more well-known national fastfood franchises.