Philly Eats Magazine Second Edition 2017

FOOD
TAKE BACK OUR FOOD
[ By Bob LePage — Publisher ]
As a person who is a food
enthusiast, one thing I really
enjoy to do is to go
out and eat a good meal.
I really do not enjoy going
to a restaurant that claims to be
something that it isn’t. When I go out
to eat with my wife and my family I
want a good meal and a fair price.
What I don’t want to see happen
is when you walk into a restaurant
that claims to be family friendly and
is a national chain. We have all seen
it our televisions full of commercials
claims to have a menu that is family
friendly. The next thing you know
you have just paid $14 for your son
to eat the salad bar and have a piece
of diced chicken that used to be included
in that salad bar. Or you order
a burger that looks like it should come
out of a drive-thru on a roll that was
fresh the week before and they claim
it to be gourmet.
It is time to take back our food
I can appreciate the quick meal or
when you’re in a bind and you have
to stop at a restaurant, I always appreciate
the business owner. But in
today’s restaurant world what needs
to happen is consistency and value,
when I go to a national chain I do not
see either. One of the reasons that
we started Philly Eats Magazine is to
point out the great local restaurants
that are in our area so that our readers
can appreciate not only the food
that they produce but the effort to
the ingredients that are chosen in the
recipes that the chefs use.
It really is time to send a message
to the national chains that a $14
burger on a steel roll is not the answer
to what we are looking for in a
meal. That same restaurant that we
paid $14 for the salad bar and $14 for
the burger that looked frozen when I
still received it, is one that advertises
all the time on television. Calls to
the franchise and the franchisor
were not returned prior to
this article being published.
Send the message
and demand better
food for your restaurant
dollar!!!!
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Philly Eats Magazine July 2017