Message: | Renee,
We're trying to find out if there really is a Santa Claus. Actually, I was trying to make light of Jim's post quoted below. Seems it takes money to run a big site like this one. So, give generously, or at least the $15.00.
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Restaurants which are patronized survive. Those which aren't wither and die.
Those lesser-known places where food is cooked from pride and love survive when enough people like us recognize their value and support them. But if we just come every day and take their free crackers and ketchup and use the rest room without once in a while buying something, we are ensuring their destruction even if we claim to really like them, even if we smile a cheery hello at the staff, even if we consider them an important part of our lives.
If we just take the crackers and go down the block to Olive Garden for dinner, we've voted with our feet. Chowhound.com has always been about making such choices very consciously and carefully. I find it really sad and stupendously unexpected that our community (except for 86 of us) has made this resoundingly clear choice.
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