There’s a reason restaurants everywhere are failing: Red Hen Syndrome

The Spectator ^ | 07/22/2018 | Rod Liddle

[T-Bone Texan]

Great vocabulary and its use is a lost art.

It is yet another metric denoting the increasing crudity and dullardry of our culture.

[RegulatorCountry]

I've laughed about the original Windows logo for decades because it looks like a shattered window flying through the air. Apropos, I suppose. Windows is broken frequently. Microsoft have never been marketing geniuses.

[T-Bone Texan]

Stop, stop. You had me at

"...spray painting the inside of an airplane with explosive diarrhea ...".

[Cowgirl]

Everything is a lie, it’s really amazing.

[ELS]

Defenestration - Ridding yourself of Microsoft products.

I like your definition.

[entropy12]

I should have made it clear, we are retired, and have lots of spare time. Actually we will linger over coffee and conversation after eating the food in restaurants.

OTOH if one works 40+ hours with a long commute as I had during my job in Chicago for 25 years, it was 1 hour drive each way, time is limited! We seldom went to restaurants on week days.

This another reason why I love cruises of 7+ days. No need to drive, no need to park, no need to cook, no need to clean, order any food on the menu without a bill because all you can eat is included in the cruise ticket.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’m visualizing Sarah Sanders, ass-over-tea kettle, somersaulting from a second-story window. Really, she was defenestrated? Someone wasn’t paying attention in Latin class.

[elteemike]

Me, too, also...

38 years a firefighter doing routine annual fire inspections to businesses including local eateries...IMHO the public would be appalled by the filthy conditions in the kitchens/food prep areas, and the slovenly personal appearance and apparent (lack of) personal hygiene of the help in too many of the chic high end establishments...

I found in general the Mom and Pop places had the cleanest kitchens, the best food and the reasonable prices...But gradually lost my enthusiasm for dining out...I got exposed to more than enough just doing my job without paying for the exposure...

[Radix]

Yup, but the one where the DIL gloats to his face about who really sired the heir to his Kingdom as he lay virtually paralyzed was pretty good too.

[jonrick46]

In certain places in Washington State, The outdoor eats are an tempting place to take a few tokes of weed as an appetizer. I smell it all the time. However such an offense in public can have the law cite you with a class 3 civil infraction. The penalty would be $50 plus court costs. Usually it requires the restaurant to call the police. If it was a place like the Red Hen, there would be no action. The restaurant staff would be getting high on their breaks and customers would be smelling it. In that liberal state, the smell of weed would be the smell of progress.

As for cigarette smoking out on the deck, I would suppose it would be permitted as long as it is done 20 feet from the nearest door. At the Red Hen, I suppose no one would notice the smell of tobacco smoke because their stoned cooks would be broiling their steaks to a crisp and the smoke would mask the scent of the tobacco. LOL!

This Lefty state is getting big money from the pot tax which is 37% on the sales price. A pack of cigarettes costs $8.00 a pack with $3.00 for taxes—37.5. A pack-a day-habit would cost you $56/week. That’s money up in smoke.

[Bonemaker]

” A pack of cigarettes costs $8.00 a pack with $3.00 for taxes—37.5.”

That’s confiscatory and evil.. We fought a war for a helluva lot less than that.