I'll go first this time.
Thank you for recognizing that.
We've done some projections, and between 2007 and 2010, food service sales are projected to grow by an average of 0.5% after inflation and population growth. This is a sharp drop from the average per capita growth of 3.5% between 1997 and 2000. Our projections show there will be a decline in individual food service establishments, particularly those small independents that are so important to communities.
You have to look at how a food service operation is structured. Food and labour are our biggest input costs. Those costs continue to increase; so these small operators are continually being squeezed. So if there's anything we can do to alleviate those labour and food costs from increasing further, it would make a difference to those independent operators.