The "logical linking" alternative is to clone the references to each restaurant as subordinate to your article (article parent, clones, children).
If the article is for the internet, hyperlinks would probably be the way to make the connection. In a outliner-based database, it seems to me that the economy and elegance of a single approach--and the superiority of logical links in denoting relations more specific than that they are somehow linked--should take the front seat.
There might be a slight efficiency gain with hyperlinks in reading, but clones (or logical links) will be much faster to create. You just select the various restaurant references, discontiguously if necessary, and then drag together to subordinate their clone to your article.
But it should be equally easy to do the reverse--to send one restaurant as a clone to multiple locations at the same time.
Stephen Diamond
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