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An old boss of mine had a rule - he never ate at a restaurant that had pictures of the food, either on display, or in the menu. Interesting that the study cite
by philjohn 5y ago
An old boss of mine had a rule - he never ate at a restaurant that had pictures of the food, either on display, or in the menu.
Interesting that the study cited says that pictures of the food make you mentally taste it.
- tyingq 5y agoWas the rule meant to, for example, help your boss lose weight? Hopefully it wasn't a rule that he/she thought meant better food. Ruling out restaurants with pictures of the food would zap quite a lot of my favorite places across my lifetime.
- philjohn 5y agoI think it was him being a bit tongue in cheek - and maybe assuming food on menu's = less good.
- avalys 5y agoIn most of the US, “pictures of food on the menu” is associated with low-end but highly marketed national chains that serve large amounts of unexceptional food - Applebees, Cheesecake Factory, etc.
- tyingq 5y agoAh, ok. But it's also true for all the various strip-mall mom-and-pop Thai, Viet, Lebanese, etc, places I go to.
- mdoms 5y agoYour boss arbitrarily ruled out entire categories of food. All of the best Chinese and Malaysian restaurants, for example, will have pictures. It's just how they do it.
- JimTheMan 5y agoAnd Japan will have wax food representations of what they are about to cook for you! And their food is on the whole, amazing. Guess it goes to show how localised some of these rules are.