> making people more willing to step into shops with very little prior vetting After eleven years in Japan, it works the other way around for me too; if there

> making people more willing to step into shops with very little prior vetting After eleven years in Japan, it works the other way around for me too; if there are no plastic samples out front, I'll just mentally dismiss restaurant and keep looking for somewhere else. Even the restaurants that can't afford plastic samples for whatever reason will often make popular/common dishes and just saran wrap them to put them outside to show what's on the menu.