A Columbia restaurant is ahead of the pack as businesses across the country change the way they prepare food to address the national obesity epidemic. Since it opened two years ago, Chick ?N Friends, an American-style carryout restaurant, has used trans fat-free oils to prepare its food ? a move that has paid off handsomely both for the bottom line and customers.
“We?re ahead in sales about 27 percent, from November and December 2005 to November and December 2006,” said Rhodney Lloyd, who owns the business with his wife, Cassandra; son, Jarrod; and daughter, Kemberly.
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