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I'm with Ani. We rarely go out to eat anymore. But there's a nice little Chinese restaurant called Bamboo 7 that has good food & isn't expensive. When we do eat out we go there.
I highly recommend Joel's sushi in Mooresville off of Brawley School Road. Family owned and operated. They state on their website that they will not raise prices or lower portions due to the economy. Food is excellent! Prices are great! Exactly the kind of restaurant I want to support.
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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Just something wrong with the overall logic. Sure it's cool and all to support a local business, but aren't you inadvertently risking taking down the bigger business that probably employs more people?
If everyone decided to only buy their hammers, nails, and drills at a family owned hardware store that employs five or six people, aren't you running the risk of taking out a Home Depot or Lowes that employs how many people?
I have little loyalty to anything that doesn't help me retain a few extra bucks (double cheeseburgers aside). If you take the logic of "No more corporate business" and apply it everywhere, you're going to come out on the short end in a pretty big way. These days that's something you can't afford to do.
No Lowe's or Home Depot is going out of business because people support one little hardware store...they have a much more diversified business model than that, and I doubt that much of the profits come from small-ticket items.
Nonetheless, one of the argument for supporting locally owned businesses is that the profits stay in the community. There's nothing wrong with having both, but having locally owned businesses is what makes a community unique. When I go to Owen's Bagels, I know that the owners are invested in the community. Same with Dilworth Drug...the people running these places are not just business owners, but neighbors. I think that especially in terms of restaurants, you can get comparably priced meals at locally owned places that you can at at an Applebee's, Chili's or Olive Garden. Fast food is a little different story...
And, the additional problem is, there are not enough privately-owned restaurants (or any kind of store for that matter) out there....we are a city of chain stores...
Here are some restaurants making an effort to buy locally grown products:
T1 Tapas (Huntersville - Birkdale Village)
Custom Shop (Charlotte - Elizabeth Ave)
Fig Tree (Charlotte - 7th Street)
Big Daddy's Burger Bar ( Myers Park - East blvd - the ostrich burger is amazing!)
You should also check out the Know Your Farms Local Food Club. They support local farms and deliver locally grown food around Charlotte.
i'm just a few houses from fig tree. they may buy a few carrots locally, but most of their meats is flown in a few thousand miles at least along while being one of the snootiest places in charlotte. sorry for the hate parade, but i've tried to eat there twice and both were bad experiences.
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