Letter: Support local eateries, or do it yourself

I am writing in response to fast food needed in Maxwell (Letter to Editor, July 31).

I would like to point out to the young lady who wrote the letter that food businesses don't just appear for convenience or because someone feels entitled to them. They come to areas because someone invests their personal money to become self-employed and provide the community a service in the form of business in exchange hopefully for the chance make money.

For a town the size of Maxwell, it is really hard to get the volume of clientele needed to make any business profitable. I would like to commend all three food businesses in Maxwell. I know personally Kim's Deli not only fixes a really quality meal, but there are really great school year specials that include chips and a drink for way under $8.  My daughters will both be having some of their lunches there this year.

I also frequent Mimi's. She has many choices under $6. She could have made one of those choices. It amazes me that someone orders something out of their budget and then complains about the prices as if the business forced them to order the higher priced item. Mimi's also fixes huge plates of quality food reasonably. 

The Maxwell Inn is a dinner house. It takes longer to fix meals, yet, not a complaint on it's prices?

My suggestion to this young lady is to be grateful for what is here and support them. You probably have no idea how much they are all struggling just to stay in business right now. It costs a lot of money to open and maintain any type of business in California. 

With California's current business climate, you are probably going to see less and less investment. But I do have a solution she could try. It's the old fashioned tried and true method. Buy food at the grocery store and fix it for herself. Then she is completely in charge of it's cost, availability and preparation time.

Cristy Edwards

Maxwell