I like to visit local neighborhood restaurants to give these places hope because I hate seeing another retail location taken up by a franchise or worse of all -

I like to visit local neighborhood restaurants to give these places hope because I hate seeing another retail location taken up by a franchise or worse of all - banks which are just basically dead space. To digress - they just opened another WF near me so there are now five total. Each is essentially a huge empty building with a huge empty parking lot. It's like the city decided they didn't want any useful commerce happening in this area and zoned it entirely for banks. Sad. Meanwhile within walking distance there are like two restaurants and a coffee shop and I count myself lucky I even have that and visit all of them at frequently because I so treasure them. Even if their food isn't that amazing they at least somewhat contribute to the community of their surroundings.