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The rich can afford to eat at restaurants with routines that simulate a robust meal without truly ingesting too many calories, and because it's healthy to do so
by redwood 14y ago
The rich can afford to eat at restaurants with routines that simulate a robust meal without truly ingesting too many calories, and because it's healthy to do so, this is precisely what the rich do. This is why portions are so tiny at gourmet restaurants so the middle class balks at them as a total rip-off. In a sense you pay to be given pomp and circumstance and less food!
- yummyfajitas 14y agoTheories like this fail to take into account that the children of rich people don't get fat, even if they are poor themselves. Consider, grad students, interns, artists, etc, none of whom can afford to eat at gourmet restaurants.
- 2muchcoffeeman 14y agoWith a degustation you'll probably have quite a few courses. 9, 10 maybe more. Maybe matching wines. If you are just fine dining you will get larger portions but will still go starter, entree, main course, dessert. The portions are small because you cannot eat that much. The prices are high because at a good restaurant they are serving food that is hard to make and they do it well. A lot of fine food can be very rich. So I am not sure about not ingesting too many calories. Perhaps relative to eating an entire pizza on my own. But not to eating a regular balanced meal.