Word: hutto
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...deal, many chapters had developed their own local buying programs. Under Tucson's plan, in which restaurants buy in bulk at common suppliers, Luria's Café Terra Cotta saved $100,000 on food costs last year--3% of its total sales for the year--without changing its menu. Andrew Hutto, owner of Baxter Station Bar and Grill in Louisville, Ky., used the savings from his chapter's buying group to help pay his gas and electric bill, which more than doubled, from $2,500 to $5,100 a month last winter...
Meanwhile, in the town of Hutto, north of Austin, the construction on State Highway 130 is a sign of things to come. Farmers no longer gather at the cotton gin, but the town's first national chain, Home Depot, has moved in. Mayor Mike Ackerman drives by the construction site every day on his way to work and is sanguine about the changing face of his town. "Anything we can do to get traffic moving north and south, we need to do," he says. The question is whether the rest of Texas agrees with him. --With reporting by Hilary Hylton/Austin