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            Restaurants can be a great way to get away from the everyday normal.  They allow us to have an off-day from cooking and cleaning.  They are also an easy way to have a party or family get-together.  At the same time, you are dining with people you don’t know and your food is being prepared by cooks you never see.

            We can go out-to-eat and relax.  It allows for everyone to choose their own meal and prevent arguing over what to eat.  All of our food is prepared for us, the table set and drinks brought to us.  Restaurants can also give us time to talk to those we have with us and catch up on things that are new in their lives.  The food is then brought to us and when we are finished eating, you don’t have to clear and clean your own table and dishes.

            A party or get together can also be done at a restaurant to prevent the need for cleaning.  A restaurant generally allows parties and may even allow you to rent out the whole restaurant or a room.  This way, the food is prepared for you and you don’t need to worry about anything except inviting the guests and showing up like they do, oh and of course the bill.

            However, when dining in public, you don’t generally know those at the tables around you.  There may be a screaming baby or toddler running around.  I’m sure we have all been in a booth when the person behind us is bouncing and that’s all we can feel.  Then there are the giggling, loud, teenagers that are disrupting the whole restaurant with their loud chatter.

            Many times while dining out, you never meet the cook or cooks that prepared the meal you ate.  The cook may prepare your food differently than you would prefer, and you also never know if that food was prepared after you ordered or was done that morning and just reheated.  Then there is the chance that they may have not washed their hands as often as they should be, which really could bother some of those germ phoebes that we all know.

            However, dining at a restaurant allows us all to get away and enjoy a meal without all the added work involved in preparing it at home.

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