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At least for my family, especially as delivery packaging has improved, restaurants have become an inferior experience unless they are fairly high end. Grandpar
by MattGaiser 3y ago
At least for my family, especially as delivery packaging has improved, restaurants have become an inferior experience unless they are fairly high end.
Grandparents used to take everyone out to dinner regularly. Now we eat at their house. They have more comfortable chairs at home. The environment is much quieter. You don’t have to wait for refills. They personally have better cutlery. We aren’t really the types to like being waited on.
So unless we explicitly want something social from the restaurant or we need a table as we are travelling, the reasons for actually going in one have disappeared.
- oceanplexian 3y agoThe packaging might be better but it doesn’t solve the problem that the food arrives cold. Especially since the drivers pick up multiple deliveries and it can be 30-40 minutes before you get your food.
- chipsrafferty 3y agoI've never had food arrive cold.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAbove all, the probability of a restaurant being able to provide a meal with sufficient quality is too low. If my family gets together, we can bang out a multiple course guaranteed high quality meal in one hour, having fun while we do it. But a lot of that is due to cooking knowledge that the elders in the family pass down and refine over many, many decades.
- wkat4242 3y agoThat works if you have a family and enjoy cooking. For me neither applies. And I'm sure restaurant chefs get some kind of training to replace the passed down knowledge :)
- toyg 3y agoIt also works for very narrow sets of dishes. Nobody is an expert in every type of food in the world. Parent poster was just humblebragging.