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 # Mutual Benefit Model for Restaurants and Communities
 
-### Problems:
+### Problems
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 * Small business restaurants
     * are shuttering en masse as their dining rooms become uninhabitable due to the possibility of virus transmission,
     * causing thousands of people to lose their source of income and ability to sustain themselves and their families.
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     * In order to suppress the rate of infection, people should be staying within those households as much as possible, ideally only leaving to replenish necessary supplies.
     * As available spaces for households to get their supplies (ie grocery stores) grows increasingly limited, those spaces become increased vectors of virus transmission.
     * The current shelter-in-place reality may be our norm for the next 12-18 months.
-### Collaboration:
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+### Collaboration
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 * How might small business restaurants serve the needs of their communities and simultaneously maintain their businesses and workers?
 * Can we alleviate the dependency on grocery stores and decrease peoples’ need to leave their homes and potentially spread the virus?
 * Can we provide relief to households who are having to juggle too many tasks while living through a fearful situation?
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 A neighborhood focused model could be adapted and used in a multiplicity of contexts to incisively develop sustained communities that might push back against the spread of the virus. 
 
-### Benefits:
+### Benefits
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 * Small business restaurants
     * A subscription service could provide more consistent and forecastable income.
     * Cooking larger serving sizes of food would allow more exact product orders and less food waste.
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     * Reduce kitchen injuries and food handling issues to keep people out of hospitals.
     * Increased access to safely handled food with a reduction in the amount of touches on food products.
     * By organizing as a community to support a small business restaurant, individual costs go down when compared to ordering takeaway food on a per-meal basis.
-### Considerations:
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+### Considerations
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 * Could multiple restaurants work together to share workload and provide variety for their communities?
 * Could the week’s provisions be a combination of prepared food and essential grocery items?
 * How might this system meet a multiplicity of dietary needs and restrictions?