Patrick Henry would be happy to know that the downtown Charlottesville outpost of Planet Kluge is an all-American restaurant, Fuel Co., probably the only place you'll ever use the words "sleek," "stylish" and "gas station" in the same sentence.
Easy access to fresh-grown everything makes cooking at home a pleasure, although the cutting-edge restaurant scene, fueled by some of the country's most progressive chefs, provides plenty of competition for appetites.
In the hyper-competitive quick-service restaurant space, fueled by hyper-convenience-seeking consumers, it is now incumbent upon brands to offer an abundance of accessibility – drive-thru, pickup, catering, delivery, e-commerce, retail, whatever.
An original feature of the turnpike, later widely copied, was the provision of restaurant and fueling facilities.
From owning and operating our favorite neighborhood restaurants, to fueling the creative fires at some of our largest think tanks, we are America.
But of all the gas station restaurants where I fueled my body, not my car, the one that impressed me most was way, way out there in Leesburg, requiring an obscene amount of petrol to visit.
Campanile, the California-Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles, is fueled by robust food and assertive breads - onion anchovy, Greek olive, rye currant, chocolate cherry and fig anise, for instance - made in La Brea Bakery next door.
The growth of the restaurant group is also fueled by chefs with rock star status and restaurateurs who have become the golden children for investors and developers of hotels and commercial properties.
When the tobacco industry tried suing cities to stop restaurant smoking bans, it fueled public anger and resolve, not a resurgence of puffing.
About 30 families bring their food waste for the farm's compost heap; an additional 1,000 pounds comes from the four Rice restaurants in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, delivered in a van fueled by the restaurants' used vegetable oil.
