Restaurants in France for example generally pay their interns (there's quite specific rules for unpaid internships and they must last less than 2 months) and ho

Restaurants in France for example generally pay their interns (there's quite specific rules for unpaid internships and they must last less than 2 months) and hours are much more reasonable for everyone (still rough compared to tech and other professions). The result is that French fine dining restaurants offer less courses and less elaborate cuisine than Noma while charging similar amounts. They also largely survive off regular clients (billionaires, rich politicians, etc...) who can afford to eat there regularly and buy big bottles of wine. Paris is a bigger city and more of a financial hub than Copenhagen. Noma specifically probably couldn't survive as they thrive mainly on tourist traffic (ie. one-time visitors on a budget) as most people agree it's more "interesting" than tasty. They've also taken the complexity to an extreme because they've had access to unpaid interns for so long (versus France which mandated better working conditions over a decade ago).