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Originally posted by alec
if one goes out to eat, try to go to independent run restaurants. chances are they will actually cook their own food, have fresher ingredients, and you won't be supporting some towering national corporation.
-alec
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I guess I had an oversight. I am lucky and live in Manhattan, the land of the independant food establishment. However, when I used to live in central New Jersey, such indepedant restaurants were non-existent. I fear many other suburban areas are the same. You can probably find an occasionaly restaurant that isn't franchised, but you will quickly get bored at the lack of variety. I fear outside of big cities, large chain and franchise restaurants are just squashing the little guys to death. That perhaps has something to do with "America's Obesity."