Achilles heel...
If no one buys, however, production of a medication or additive is dropped like a hot potato.
For example, choose only foods at a buffet that have no corporately-prepared sauce mixes, breadings, or broths.
Ask for broths and sauces made from scratch, by the chef...if you can find a translator to speak for you.
Chefs are trained to prepare food from scratch. Broth is made from simmered vegetables and takes 10 hours to make. They know how, but use prepared mixes, only for speed.
And then there are those three-inch round, red, sticky signs on the hood over the steam table...'No Added MSG!'
'Added' by whom???
At our local buffet restaurant, those sticky signs disappeared rapidly...and the restaurant owners (chefs) don't even speak English!
The battle for the whole truth is being fought on many fronts.
Reserve your dollars for those who take a stand for wholesomeness. At the very least, choose only items from the buffet WITHOUT pre-made, powdered, broths, sauces, breading mixes, etc.
The chef wants you to be satisfied, and to return often.
At our buffet restaurant, I pick egg fu yung that has no sauce; white rice; sour cream and wasabi; pickled beets; boiled eggs; black olives; and salad with sour cream, before I add little bits of things with sauces and breading.
I am not ravenously hungry or thirsty within an hour of eating there.
Now to communicate with the health food store which has a deli and juice bar...over-priced.
Better to sell 100 prepared organic carrots at $1.00 each, than 10 at $2.00 each.
Lower the price and go for volume!
A retailer could
inch the price down, a few cents at a time, and see what price convinces the consumer to buy...without advertising. Customers are very aware of things like that.
'Build a better mousetrap, price it appropriately, and the world will beat a path to your door.'
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