England's largest cities have a shocking number of food chain restaurants on their 'high streets' as they call them- but these aren't your typical fast food chains, the way America has Arby's and Wendy's. These are chains pretending to be nice/posh restaurants, and charging pretty steep prices, such as Zizzi's and Browns.
I'm not against chains in general, and i don't think 'corporations are evil'. But there's something fundamentally wrong with these places pushing out other medium-priced restaurants, leaving space only for high-end boutiques. Fast food chains aren't much better, but at least they occupy a different bracket from family run restaurants that are being forced to shut down by this variety of food.
Do we really want to eat mass-produced meals? Already, we're starting to dress the same around the globe- but are we going to conform when it comes to food too? It's important to encourage sustainably sourced, locally produced food more than ever now- and while a few of these restaurants profess to do this, it's beginning to seem like a variation of the empty 'fair-trade' labeling Starbucks and other chains around the world now propagate.
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