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> Because restaurant owners are barely figuring out what email is. That seems a bit condescending to restaurant owners? Rather, perhaps, they are so much in th
by trop 16y ago
> Because restaurant owners are barely figuring out what email is.
That seems a bit condescending to restaurant owners? Rather, perhaps, they are so much in the real world, dealing with suppliers, cooks, kitchen equipment, waiters, decor, etc., that navigating the virtual (websites) is antithetical?
- japherwocky 16y agoMy experience has been kind of like this. The owners are pretty smart people but don't have the time/energy to figure out website tech.
- bdclimber14 16y agoI don't think it's condescending, I think its accurate. I didn't say they are too dumb to figure it out... I just said they are barely figuring it out, probably because of all the things you listed.
- trop 16y agoOK, point taken! I like what you say about an anti-CMS. I feel like the old Google Pages (and maybe new Google Sites?) were aimed this way, along with the what other posters mention (Let's Eat, Squarespace). The step of getting one's own domain name is a whole other thing, of course. But I do really love the idea that there's a dialectic between the virtual world of websites/internet and restaurant work -- which is so deeply grounded in the physical. And that there's some meaning here, that these things do not reconcile well, and the lameness of the web presence of restaurants is a living manifestation of this disjunction.