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>Restaurants are mentioned three times, but restaurants are a relic of class divisions from around 1900, where a patron is pampered by servants, while leaking m
by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Restaurants are mentioned three times, but restaurants are a relic of class divisions from around 1900, where a patron is pampered by servants, while leaking money in all directions. So their continued existence is surprising,
Huh? Restaurants have been around since ancient times, in societies across the globe. Here's a Wikipedia link for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant#History
Modern-format restaurants have been around since the late 1700s, but there's plenty of records of people eating in food-serving establishments in ancient Greek and Roman societies. I'm sure other, even more ancient societies had similar things, which are now lost to history.
- card_zero 2y ago1900 because that was when "the servant problem" arose, the problem being that nobody wanted to be a servant any more. But in some contexts the dynamic is maintained. I may be off by plus or minus three decades. Maybe 1930.
- shiroiushi 2y agoWhat are you talking about? Restaurants don't have any trouble hiring people to work there, as long as they pay enough. No one minds being a servant if they're getting paid enough. Of course, it's not a terribly glamorous profession, and you can get more pay doing something higher-skill, but that usually requires much more education and training, so working as a server appeals to people without that. I'm sorry, I just don't understand the point you're trying to make here.