Delicious, Delightful Dining
Lake Osceola, Winter Park, Florida
Picture credit: Hugh C. Leighton
Two stories on our local news this morning, are reason for Florida food lovers to celebrate, as both involve great food and great places to eat it.
As if they were reading the collective minds of all of their customers, one of our favorite places to eat, Chipotle, has announced that they are now serving zero GMO foods at their restaurants.
Chipotle has become, after living in California for over 30 years, my favorite place here for Mexican food.
They have many excellent, healthy choices of great food that is carefully watched over and most delicious.
This is just a beginning, hopefully many, or all Global eateries will soon follow their exemplary example.
Those in the food serving industry can no longer afford to insult or offend their customers and this latest move by a big chain member, is a positive response for the greater good, unlike the negative one last year by Subway, when they were accused by a Blogger with a terse expose concerning the quite nasty rubber mat ingredient, azodicarbonamide, which was found in their bread, forcing them to quickly back pedal and remove the foreign substance.
This latest move by Chipotle is in keeping with the company’s long time mantra of serving clean, safe, healthy food.
It is becoming increasingly apparent, that when we the people, speak with one loud and clear voice, companies DO respond!
Locally, the trendy and elegant town of Winter Park, a favorite dining and shopping destination for so many, has announced that they are petitioning all restaurants in the town to go ” Smoke Free.”
The voluntary initiative called “Breathe Free Winter Park” is already quite a success, with roughly 25 eateries already on board.
This is a very smart move for all involved, as absolutely no one should have to breathe smoke when they are eating.
Clean air, is better for the consumers and better for those who work in the industry.
My only complaint about this delightful, little shopping paradise, which I find on par with many of the best in California, is the ugly parking situation.
The town fathers simply must find a solution to this, somehow.
Yes, there is a Chipotle in Winter Park on the corner of 17/92 and Fairbanks and once the parking issues are solved and our food no longer has any GMO’s in them, we can all enjoy delicious, delightful dining!
Places to learn more:
Chipotle Completes Plan to Remove GMOs From All Ingredients
Chipotle nixes genetically modified ingredients from its menu
Winter Park aims to be first city in Central Florida with all smoke-free restaurants
Winter Park program would make restaurants entirely smoke-free
Winter Park wants restaurants to offer ‘smoke-free’ patios
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