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Upscale Restaurants Shun Bottled Water
Back when he banned the bottle, Mindel recalls other restaurateurs raised their eyebrows and asked if he knew what he was doing. In fact, said Mindel, he did.
"It's not like we've got bad water here. Our water's terrific," Mindel said. "I don't think we've had one single person that's said, `Oh, can't you bring me Perrier.'"
  Antonio Macaluso, general manager, of the Poggio restaurant, sits at a table with carafes of the restaurant's own sparkling and plain filtered water in Sausalito, Calif., Monday, March 26, 2007. Bye-bye bottled water. Hello eau de tap. A new trend is in the pipeline with some upscale restaurants ditching packaged H2Os in the name of conservation. Poggio has been serving filtered tap water since the restaurant opened in 2003. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (Eric Risberg - AP) Partnership
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• Customer Joan Nitis certainly endorsed the no-bottle approach Wednesday as she lunched at Poggio with Anita Pira.
"I love that," she said. "Usually I don't have water in a restaurant, but here I do. It's just refreshing."
Pira appreciated not having to pay extra for water.
"We can buy more wine," she said with a smile.
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