There's something endearing about small-town restaurants or cafés. The locals who frequent these businesses will continually return, or not, based on the quality, and to some degree the quantity, of fare being presented. If the wait-staff are friendly, reasonably prompt, and generally efficient in serving the customers, most folks will return when a meal outside of their home kitchen is desired. I’ve had the great pleasure of frequenting two of these excellent food purveyors.

Glancing around the room at Cowpunchers in Springville or Sea Shanty in Cayucos, during most anytime of the day, there's a tremendous similarity in the crowd, even though they're 150 miles apart. The early morning coffee guys, the morning breakfast crowd, or the daily lunch bunch are markedly similar. The only differ

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