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Article: Tapping into greener dining, eateries table bottled water
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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At the restaurant T.W. Food, a black-clad server circulates,
pitcher of water in hand. "Good evening," she says to a table of
diners. "Can I offer you a glass of Cambridge filtered?"
At Small Plates in Harvard Square, the menu lists "Individual
Bottled Water," but instead of a price you'll find this message:
"Not sold here because plastic bottles are BAD BAD BAD for the
environment & that water is really no better than tap water."
Boston-area restaurants are beginning to climb aboard the no-
bottled-water bandwagon rolling in from California, where big-name
establishments such as Berkeley's Chez Panisse have sworn off
bottled and Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco decreed last summer
that ...