Alan King once wrote a book about the dining experience, and as I recall, he refused to eat in restaurants because they lacked the dining experience. Now that COVID-19 has forced almost everything to be redefine does this mean a return to the dining experience and an abandonment of restaurants?
Hm. You mean he refused to eat in restaurants that lacked the dining experience? Or that all restaurants lack the dining experience? Because... to me restaurants ARE the dining experience...
The poet Olin Miller was credited with saying the memory is smoothest of all liars, so I hope I have this right.
What I recall of Alan King, promoting his book about the dining experience, was that restaurants were about fast and fast food: in and out. The dining experience was not. The dining experience for him included examples of eating out - as in outside; and that meals took several hours because there was a leisurely pace to them instead of his experience with a restaurant, where you had restaurant staff lingering nearby, waiting to clear your table because they needed it for the next customer.
With COVID-19 many eateries are serving out of doors, and with that, it seems, the dining experience - of having time to enjoy the meal. So: the dining experience instead of a restaurant experience.
Alan King once wrote a book about the dining experience, and as I recall, he refused to eat in restaurants because they lacked the dining experience. Now that COVID-19 has forced almost everything to be redefine does this mean a return to the dining experience and an abandonment of restaurants?
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Hm. You mean he refused to eat in restaurants that lacked the dining experience? Or that all restaurants lack the dining experience? Because... to me restaurants ARE the dining experience...
The poet Olin Miller was credited with saying the memory is smoothest of all liars, so I hope I have this right.
What I recall of Alan King, promoting his book about the dining experience, was that restaurants were about fast and fast food: in and out. The dining experience was not. The dining experience for him included examples of eating out - as in outside; and that meals took several hours because there was a leisurely pace to them instead of his experience with a restaurant, where you had restaurant staff lingering nearby, waiting to clear your table because they needed it for the next customer.
With COVID-19 many eateries are serving out of doors, and with that, it seems, the dining experience - of having time to enjoy the meal. So: the dining experience instead of a restaurant experience.