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It's right beside Peace College Campus at Seaboard Station, facing Peace St. It's set back from the street a bit, and you actually drive around back to park and enter the restaurant. The food is awesome. Jason Smith is the owner and chef.
Chains, whether franchised or company-owned, provide considerable local economic plusses.
Property tax revenues to local municipalities.
Payroll to local employees.
Revenue to local service providers.
Many franchises are owned by local community members, and owner profit stays local.
Large corporate hospitality brands may distribute profits or charity to a local level. http://www.goldencorral.com/about/IM...ng_Program.pdf
I think consumer choice should logically be based on quality of food, service, and convenience as much as ownership model.
I eat at Chilis in Cary about once a week, since it is 250 feet from my office door. Chilis is definitely a "chain," and an arm of a publicly traded corporation. With some of the de rigeur arguably terrible menu selections.
My typical lunch is half a turkey sandwich, and a house salad, with a large side of broccoli.
$6.00 It is one of the Lunch Combo specials
+$1.75(I think) for coffee
+ a checkin on Foursquare gets me free chips and salsa, should I desire. + Local sales tax $8.80 total gross bill
+ $2.20 gratuity for $11.00 total
Out of that $11.00, I know that about $3.00 directly stays local.
I know that Chilis or their landlord pays local property tax.
I know that local landscapers tend the grounds.
Sysco, or their competition, pays their local driver for delivery.
Etc.
Some margin goes to the corporate owner, Brinker International, but may also be distributed to state and municipal pension funds via their holdings.
Regardless, there is a huge local component in my payment.
Yes, all those things you mentioned are true, but they would be true for a local business as well. If you replaced that chili's with a local restaurant, they would still pay taxes, pay a landscaper (actually, whoever actually owns the property would be the one paying the landscaper, chili's likely rents), take deliveries of food. So in that way it's a wash.
However, hopefully the local restaurant would have connections to local farms benefitting you and the farm owner/workers. Supposing the business was successful, the owner(s) would buy (a) large house(s) in town and pay taxes on that and also dump more money into the local economy.
Yes, all those things you mentioned are true, but they would be true for a local business as well. If you replaced that chili's with a local restaurant, they would still pay taxes, pay a landscaper (actually, whoever actually owns the property would be the one paying the landscaper, chili's likely rents), take deliveries of food. So in that way it's a wash.
However, hopefully the local restaurant would have connections to local farms benefitting you and the farm owner/workers. Supposing the business was successful, the owner(s) would buy (a) large house(s) in town and pay taxes on that and also dump more money into the local economy.
With chains, the big money leaves town.
Sysco delivers to Mom and Pop, too.
"Hopefully" and "Reality" are often divergent.
"Big money?" I quantified my expenditure to some degree.
How much is "Big money" out of that 11 bucks?
Technically, Daylight Donuts is not a franchise. The operators don't pay an up-front fee to open a store, and they don't pay a percentage of their sales to corporate. Instead, the operators (who are technically licensees) must carry the Daylight product line, must buy the mix from Daylight, and must prepare them per Daylight instructions.
I did not like Daylight Donuts. They didn't seem very high quality. But my husband liked them, and I am sad that they closed.
Donuts don't seem to big very big around here. Now that this is gone, I don't know where in or near central Cary one would purchase donuts (besides the grocery store).
Depends on how far you're willing to drive but there are two newish doughnut bakeries in Durham. Near Southpoint there's Rise which is owned by the fellow who started up OnlyBurger and in downtown Durham Monuts Donuts has opened a brick and mortar location. I'm not sure but I think they may still be doling up donuts at the Durham Central Park Food Truck Rodeos too.
Depends on how far you're willing to drive but there are two newish doughnut bakeries in Durham. Near Southpoint there's Rise which is owned by the fellow who started up OnlyBurger and in downtown Durham Monuts Donuts has opened a brick and mortar location. I'm not sure but I think they may still be doling up donuts at the Durham Central Park Food Truck Rodeos too.
I'd go to the Dunkin Donuts in Cary before I'd drive 30 minutes for a doughnut. And I've never been inside the Cary Dunkin Donuts so...
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