The background on this card is a wrapper from fast food chain Chipotle. I don't much like fast food chains, but I make a sometimes exception for Chipotle. Their ingredients and practices, while not always perfect, are a gazillion times better than other fast food chains.

However, on a recent visit I experience a bit of a surprise that I want to address. The prep staff brushed the excess filling from the stainless prep surface back into the serving bins! So, I am sending this postcard to the general manager of that particular restaurant just to let him know it surprised me. It am all for not wasting, especially food, but I think a line needs to be drawn at reusing food. I know the stainless surface was not dirty, but, still, it was a bit weird. I'm glad my sandwich had already been made at that point.

My message to the manager is upbeat and supportive. I don't think this is a practice at the restaurant, I think it is was just the staff not really thinking what they were doing. It happens. If it happens over and over, I might get upset, though.

Since I didn't want to waste the rest of the wrapper, I made five more cards on the same theme. I thought it would be cool to send to mailart friends, who do reuse every day, but then I thought "I'm preaching to the choir." Not sure what I will do with the others ... perhaps use them to encourage non-mailart friends to try mailart? The others are on my Flickr page, English set and International set. Please note ... it has been many years since my university Japanese classes.