Mark Bittman
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Source great food, cook great food, treat workers well, make the food available to everybody.
You just need money.
It goes back to why there should be a subsidized department of food the way there's a department of education.
So I feel sort of it's like antithetical to the way I want things to be.
But they're also more expensive.
They're more annoying.
They're more precious.
There's fewer mom and pops that are really, really fun than there used to be.
You know, there's the chain stuff.
I mean, when we talk about restaurants, we think about, oh, there's this cool chef who blah, blah, blah.
But, you know, I don't know what the number is, but it's got to be 80% or 90% of restaurants are chain restaurants.
They're Applebee's and McDonald's and Papa John's and all of that stuff.
And, you know, you know what you're getting there.
We don't even have to badmouth it.
They're not sourcing well.
They're not treating workers well.
They're not cooking great food.