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FAST FOODS ALTERNATIVES
Exki - has branches across Belgium and in Turin, Italy. Although using the fast food concept, it offers healthy bio-organic and tasty dishes instead, from seasonal soups to Indian noodle and chicken dishes. [www.exki.be] YXC
Fast Good - a Spanish restaurant (based in Madrid) created by NH Hotels and Ferrán Adriá. It works by adding gourmet ingredients to traditional fast-food menu items and by offering a quality fast food service in order to satisfy the demands of the modern client who has little time to eat but isn’t willing to compromise his or her health or the quality of the food. [www.fast-good.com/en/home.htm] YXC
Sens - a new restaurant concept. Keeping the idea of a fast-food restaurant, what it offers are either take-away meals or meals to be enjoyed on the spot, seated or standing up. Another innovation is a small grocery corner, which offers original products such as ‘ventrèche de thon’, ‘millesimed’ sardines, and fish soup: a judicious selection of affordable specialities. [www.jardindessens.com/us/olivier-chateau.html] YXC
Slow Food - a unique international movement devoted to “the protection of the right to taste”, as their Manifesto humbly declares. Slow Food is, in fact, much more than that; or, maybe, we must underline that the ‘right to taste’ concerns fundamental issues that go from the right to good tasty food, to safe food and, last but not least, respect for both people (who make what we taste) and the planet, and future generations’ rights…
[www.slowfood.com] YXC
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