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I read a article pre-covid about a restaurant owner in SF who'd closed her sit-down, full service restaurant and opened a counter-service/takeout restaurant ins

I read a article pre-covid about a restaurant owner in SF who'd closed her sit-down, full service restaurant and opened a counter-service/takeout restaurant instead. Less staff, less overhead, more customers, and she felt it was a better model for everyone involved. Even before Covid, the sit down restaurant service with it's hostess and waiters and 3 course menus seemed to be going the way of the movie theater. Who has time, who has energy, and who wouldn't be just as happy getting Doordash and eating in the comfort of their home and probably watching a movie at the same time? Fewer and fewer people it turns out.

commandlinefan 6y ago
> sit down restaurant service ... seemed to be going the way of the movie theater ... who wouldn't be just as happy ... in the comfort of their home and probably watching a movie Well, I'm just one data point, but I vastly prefer going out for dinner (and sitting down, getting a menu, having a waiter) and going in person to a movie theater to doing those things in my same-old living room that I see every night. I don't know just how in the minority I am, but there are some of us who think it's worth the extra money you pay to have the experience.
- rabuse 6y ago
  My family and I have been going to movie theaters as a weekly family outing for a long time (pre-covid), and I have always enjoyed that. You just don't get the same experience from home.
geewee 6y ago
I would much rather eat at s restaurant. The food hasn't gotten cold, and it just feels like a completely different experience
- nineplay 6y ago
  I like eating in restaruants but it just doesn't happen very often. Mostly when I do (did) it's lunch with coworkers. Otherwise - while on vacation or maybe the oddball anniversary dinner, but not much else. I doubt I'm paying their bills.
  - matthewowen 6y ago
    I mean, OK? But other people are: restaurants collectively were booming before the pandemic[0]. And even in the midst of a pandemic, many people are still going out to them! I think your anecdata is heavy on the anecdote and light on the data. 0: https://www.nrn.com/sales-trends/us-restaurant-sales-reach-record-863b-2019-nra-says https://www.nrn.com/sales-trends/us-restaurant-sales-reach-r...
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
That's great, until Doordash or Uber eats is having server problems. (Like Uber eats is in my area. Right now. When we're having an online lunch meeting, and the management bought everyone lunch for the meeting in the form of Uber Eats vouchers, and several people cannot get their food because the drivers can't talk to the servers for a couple of hours so far.) Who has time? I do, when I'm on a date. Takeout isn't the same. (When you're married, you can get takeout and take it home, but that's... kind of lame.) Also, when it's bad weather (hot/cold/rainy), takeout leaves me with the question of where I'm going to go to eat it. Not to the park when it's 35 degrees (whether Farenheit or Celsius). In my car? That gets old. At home? Where?

commandlinefan 6y ago

> sit down restaurant service ... seemed to be going the way of the movie theater ... who wouldn't be just as happy ... in the comfort of their home and probably watching a movie Well, I'm just one data point, but I vastly prefer going out for dinner (and sitting down, getting a menu, having a waiter) and going in person to a movie theater to doing those things in my same-old living room that I see every night. I don't know just how in the minority I am, but there are some of us who think it's worth the extra money you pay to have the experience.

rabuse 6y ago
My family and I have been going to movie theaters as a weekly family outing for a long time (pre-covid), and I have always enjoyed that. You just don't get the same experience from home.

geewee 6y ago

I would much rather eat at s restaurant. The food hasn't gotten cold, and it just feels like a completely different experience

nineplay 6y ago
I like eating in restaruants but it just doesn't happen very often. Mostly when I do (did) it's lunch with coworkers. Otherwise - while on vacation or maybe the oddball anniversary dinner, but not much else. I doubt I'm paying their bills.
- matthewowen 6y ago
  I mean, OK? But other people are: restaurants collectively were booming before the pandemic[0]. And even in the midst of a pandemic, many people are still going out to them! I think your anecdata is heavy on the anecdote and light on the data. 0: https://www.nrn.com/sales-trends/us-restaurant-sales-reach-record-863b-2019-nra-says https://www.nrn.com/sales-trends/us-restaurant-sales-reach-r...

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

That's great, until Doordash or Uber eats is having server problems. (Like Uber eats is in my area. Right now. When we're having an online lunch meeting, and the management bought everyone lunch for the meeting in the form of Uber Eats vouchers, and several people cannot get their food because the drivers can't talk to the servers for a couple of hours so far.) Who has time? I do, when I'm on a date. Takeout isn't the same. (When you're married, you can get takeout and take it home, but that's... kind of lame.) Also, when it's bad weather (hot/cold/rainy), takeout leaves me with the question of where I'm going to go to eat it. Not to the park when it's 35 degrees (whether Farenheit or Celsius). In my car? That gets old. At home? Where?