This article will cover the reasons why restaurants are important. Some individuals may see restaurants as only a convenience or unnecessary establishment in their usual life, however, they are very important for many individuals and businesses. We will use real life examples in this article to explain why restaurants are very important. Even when certain catastrophic events occur, restaurants are even considered an essential by governments, that need to stay open when other businesses are ordered to temporarily shut down.
Reason #1: Businesses need to eat too.
In case anyone didn’t know, food is very important for survival. Some individuals would think that a restaurant is only a place where people go to eat food as they please to just have something different than what they usually have at home, but for some people at certain times, it is all they have.
For example, businesses sometimes have to conduct their work on a daily basis in places where food isn’t readily available to them. The employees of that business may be called out of their homes to work their work shifts miles away from places where food can’t be easily prepared and made. For this reason, special restaurants are sometimes made exclusively for these companies to operate near (or even in) the business’s establishment.
We have seen this happen for miners or for slaughtering facilities, where all of their work is conducted in remote locations. Restaurants will be set up inside of these facilities to feed the employees when they are eligible for a break. Without these restaurants close by or in their establishments, the employees could possibly have to go the whole work shift without eating, which would obviously cause problems. The closest place to get food for them may be hours away, and guess what, that place might still be a restaurant.
These restaurants have to be there, else it would make life very hard for the businesses that need them. Even businesses that are set up near or in urban areas need restaurants, as they may only have a short amount of time before they have to return to work once their break starts. A good example of this is a parademic. This is where fast food restaurants become extremely valuable, as they specialize in preparing food in minutes for individuals that work for these businesses that are in a time crunch.
Some individuals might be thinking, “well why don’t they just bring their food with them from home to work?”. Well, depending on the type of work that people do, this isn’t always an option. Some individuals working in certain businesses aren’t even allowed to bring luggage with them into the facility. Also, for the places that they work, they still have to have a place for the employees to store the food so that it doesn’t perish during the work hours. Not every business has this available.
Even if they did, sometimes people forget to bring their own lunch with them to work. The importance of having restaurants is just as important as a cafeteria is to kids at a school. In some cases, it is even more important. Many individuals going to restaurants to eat don’t do it because of convenience, but because they have to. It may be the only source of food they have in the vicinity.
Reason #2 People need to eat when they are traveling.
Restaurants are essential to individuals that have to travel to places too far from their home. Without restaraunts along the way as they travel, some individuals can be left with nothing to eat but the chips available at a nearby convenience store, if there even is one nearby. Again, food can be prepared and brought with them when they travel, but in the case that they underestimate how much food they needed for their trip or something happens to their supply of food, restaurants are able to pick up the slack in an emergency and provide it to them.
This is where restaurants expanding their profits by making more establishments in different places locally, internationally, or nationally becomes valuable to the public, especially if individuals travel a lot.
Cooking equipment, such as an oven or microwave, may not be available to certain individuals that travel. A restaurant has this equipment and better usually at their establishments, so an individual is able to have access to foods that have to be cooked, almost anywhere they go.
Reason #3: Restaurants are essential during pandemics, natural disasters, and other emergencies.
Again, restaurants can be very important in cases where natural disasters have recently happened. They can end up being the only place (or one of the few places) for people to get their food. If a person has no way of cooking their food at home because of a power outage or no electricity at home, a restaurant that still has power may be the next best option. They can serve food to individuals in this situation until they are able to prepare their own food at home.
In some cases, like in a pandemic, food can be stripped out of a grocery store by people panicking, or it could be limited. This means that restaurants can once again provide food to people that need it in these situations.
Also, if a person forgets to go to the grocery store before it closes when they have no food at home, it is a relief to them to know that a restaurant may still be open. Some restaurants will still be open, or open for a short time on certain holidays, while other places with food may be closed before or on these holidays. Some restaurants are also open really late on certain days, or everyday, while some even stay open 24/7. Depending on the location, restaurants that do this may be the only ones feeding the hungry people in the wee hours while everything else is closed.
Conclusion
Restaurants are important to certain individuals, because of their location, time available throughout the day, and other factors that can happen in life unexpectedly. Even the individuals that fall within the reasons provided above may not understand the importance of a restaurant in these situations until they realize that it really is their only option when they are hungry and need to eat at times. Either way, restaurants will continue to expand and feed the people, whether the people have to go to restaurants out of necessity or not.
