Twenty-six city restaurants have banded together to create Eat Charlotte, a group promoting independent, locally owned restaurants in the area and looking to gain some economies of scale in advertising and mutual promotion.
Founder Briana Cohen -- general manager of the restaurants Press, Pie Town and Sonoma -- said that in a tough economy, independent restaurants "can't just leave the market like corporate ones can. How do you advertise and bring new people in when it's such a stretch on your advertising budget?"
Eat Charlotte member restaurants will put in equal amounts of money to buy advertising, produce a by-neighborhood dining guide that will be available in each restaurant, and pay for a Web site -- EatCharlotte.net, slated to go live Friday.
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