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Restaurants
---Don't Forget to Tip
---Cellular Phone Use
---Fine Dining
---Sit Down Casual
---Coffee Shops
---Roadside Stops
---Franchised Fast Food
---Snackbars
---Cafeterias
---Convenience Eating
---Take Out and Delivery
---Ethnic Restaurants

Bars and Taverns

Hotels and Motels
---Many Types and Prices
---Hotels
---Motels
---Small Country Inns
---Resort Accomodations
---Campgrounds

Stores and Services
---Copy Shops
---Travel Bureaus
---Haircutting and Beauty Shops
---Cleaners and Laundries
---Video Rental
---Photo Developing
---Drug Stores
---Florists
---Hardware Stores
---Locksmiths
---Shoe Stores
---Stationary Stores
---Card and Gift Stores

Professional Services

Errand and Concierge Services

Consumer Issues
---Important in America
---Customer Service
---Dishonest Practices
---Telephone Solicitations
---Fraudulent Telemarketers
---Questionable Charity Callers
---Service Contracts
---Contests and Promotions

Public Toilets

Tipping

Introduction
Before moving on to miscellaneous retail stores, services and consumer issues, this chapter starts with America's wide array of restaurants. Restaurants and eating establishments are one area in which the United States is most nearly a free market economy. The restaurant business is highly competitive, and over the years, as a greater proportion of women take jobs (and thus abandon home cooking chores) Americans have been eating out more often. The restaurant business is booming, and incidentally, employs a high proportion of immigrants, both legally and illegally.


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