Certainly we all would care about our area and community and support our local businesses yet it is the rare occasion that one could purchase fast food here that is worthy of the price charged.  Overcooked biscuits, cold fries and sloppily prepared burgers and sandwiches are not worth a penny.  When people visit our area for the events held here, do we realize that our fast food restaurants make a horrible impression of our area?  Are there no incentive programs for developing excellence in local employees?   Is there a person alive that enjoys eating a taco with extra grease?  Do the Columbus restaurants think that interstate traffic will be long gone down the highway before they realize they have been ripped off and that even their animals will not eat what was purchased?  Have things come to the place where we each should take the bags of slop back into the various chains and demand our money back?  After complaining to management, do we need to further report the rip offs to the police?

Julie Perkins, Tryon, N.C.