…but this time at your favorite restaurant. In an earlier post I wrote about CSAs and buying local produce to eat at home. Now I want to encourage people to eat at their favorite local restaurant, which hopefully is not a chain, but rather locally owned and operated. Too many small eateries are suffering due to the economic times. The price of gas and groceries are keeping many at home, and if they do eat out, it may be at a fast food outlet.
Although not completely opposed to fast food, I try not to eat at those places unless I am with my high school students on a fieldtrip and we make our bus stop there. As I tell my students, eating fast food occasionally will not kill you, eating it everyday will. Nor am I advocating eating at the local diner everyday, either. But an occasional meal out helps us to feel less deprived, and it can certainly help our local economies.
So think of your favorite local dining spot, and go out to eat.
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