Counter service eateries thrive in the Vail Valley

By Melanie Wong

Sometimes outsiders notice things that longtime locals overlook. Sometimes they’re right, and sometimes their observations might be a bit inaccurate, but still drive home a good point.When Ben Solomon, aka #VailBen, left town after his time as the winner of Vail’s “America’s Best Summer Job” contest, he wrote a special “hits and misses” column for this paper. One of his “misses” was a lack of counter service restaurants in Vail. “When eating out in Vail, you have two options: cheap to-go or expensive sit down,” he wrote. “For the hundreds of workers who can’t afford $40 entrees, counter service is …

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