This Restaurant Gives A Gift With Each Meal, And Nerds Love It
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Back in 1970, a restaurant called ‘Traveler’ opened its doors, offering not only delicious meals but books that you can take home with you for free. Sounds unbelievable, right? Who on earth would give away stuff for free? Well, as it turns out, the creator of this lovely little restaurant was a huge book lover, and after his house got completely filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his restaurant’s customers.
In 1993, the owners of the restaurant changed, but they continued this beautiful tradition and even made it bigger. “We give away 1 to 2 thousand books a week. We have expanded it to three books per person. The books come from many sources. Library book sales are our best but our customers are a very big contributing factor, not a single day goes by that someone doesn’t bring us books. We have given away approximately 2.5 million books since we have been here.” The owner told Bored Panda.
Yes, you heard it right, over 2 million books, and they are not planning to stop! “We have a horse trailer that we pick up books with. Some weeks we can go to 4 different libraries to pick up books. There is about 9 thousand books on our shelves for them to choose from.”
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Back in 1970 a restaurant ‘Traveler’ has opened its doors, offering not only delicious meals but also free books that you can take home with you
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The founder, who’s a huge book lover, decided to give them to his restaurant’s costumers, since his house was completely filled up
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In 1993 the owners of this restaurant have changed but they continued this beautiful tradition, and even made it bigger
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“We give away 1 to 2 thousand books a week. We have expanded it to three books per person”
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“We have given away approximately 2.5 million books since we have been here”
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“There is about 9 thousand books on our shelves for them to choose from”
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Turns out, many people have already visited this lovely restaurant, and here’s what they had to say
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Restaurant of my dreams! Where is it exactly?
'Traveler' is located in Union, Conneticut
One of the few disadvantages to not living in USA, I guess.
Aw man...
I hate when I’m reading an article and the don’t mention the location. Yes, I could google but it seems like an important part of the story is being left out. Great idea, wish I had one in my area!
1257 Buckley Hwy # I-84 Union, Connecticut 06076
Yayaya mixing 2 of my favorite things :D
What a lovely idea, and it's wonderful that the new owners have kept the tradition! So often do people want to change things, and only end up ruining what made it a great business in the first place!
Restaurant of my dreams! Where is it exactly?
'Traveler' is located in Union, Conneticut
One of the few disadvantages to not living in USA, I guess.
Aw man...
I hate when I’m reading an article and the don’t mention the location. Yes, I could google but it seems like an important part of the story is being left out. Great idea, wish I had one in my area!
1257 Buckley Hwy # I-84 Union, Connecticut 06076
Yayaya mixing 2 of my favorite things :D
What a lovely idea, and it's wonderful that the new owners have kept the tradition! So often do people want to change things, and only end up ruining what made it a great business in the first place!