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Something like the Les Routiers restaurants might be an idea. Except that you used to have similar places generically called "Mom and Pop" restaurants, which the fast food places destroyed.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 10:34:45 AM EST
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As people get sick of McDonalds, they will come back. We need a visionary here.

by shergald on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 04:00:53 PM EST
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It's the other way around. As people grow up with McDonalds, they become incapable of understanding or appreciating real food. I know many, MANY people for whom the notion that some food is better than others, on quality grounds, is completely alien, even snobbish and offensive.

People getting tired of McDonalds is like someone getting tired of crack. It just doesn't work that way.

by Zwackus on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 07:06:50 PM EST
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Especially when considering that McDonalds is made to build some withdrawal symptoms. When I ate less in order to lose weight, I still sometime ate at McDonalds - and the high sugary content made me go into hypoglycaemia a few hours after the meal...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 07:21:07 PM EST
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