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Article: Paper towels increasingly take place of napkins at mealtime.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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Byline: Matt Kempner
Mar. 2--For much of the last century, Americans have settled down to their dinner tables with paper napkins tucked under forks, spread like umbrellas in their laps or hung over shirt collars.
But diners are shifting how they wipe crumbs from their faces and fingers, and increasingly it doesn't involve tissue-thin napkins in pastel prints. Home use of paper napkins is on a slide, down more than 8 percent in three years.
It isn't only because more people eat out, according to Georgia-Pacific, one of the nation's leading napkin makers.
"People are using paper towels more today as a substitute for napkins," said Mike ...