Breaking the Chain
A declaration of independents against chain restaurants
By Judith Potwora •
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As chain restaurants extend their reach into urban locales,independent restaurant owners say the best way to protect theirturf is to join forces against the chains.
"The independent restaurant share of the dining-out pie isgetting smaller and smaller," says Don Luria, president of theCouncil ofIndependent Restaurants of America (CIRA), which began in 1999and now has 15 chapters. He points out that the rise in newrestaurants, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs at anywherefrom 8,000 to 10,000 new restaurants per year, mostly comes fromchains and franchises.
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