‘Sit up straight and relax’, ‘never waste any food’ and ‘wait for permission before you sit down’. In some restaurants it’s the diners who take orders … Check out our blogpost for more tales of cheffy rudeness
In last week’s Soapbox, David claimed that the dearth of ready-to-order buttons and order-memorising waiters was what he’d most like to change about eating out. Correction: he forgot about tasting/sniffing the wine. Awkward, pointless and if done by anyone, should be done by waiters – who actually know what they’re sniffing for
This week David turns his attention to ordering in restaurants. But rather than ranting about it, he has a brilliant idea: buttons in restaurants that tell the waiters when you’re ready to order! Not only are they efficient, they take away the awkward trying-to-catch-the-attention-of-a-waiter period. What’s not to love?
(Source: Guardian)
A bunch of stories, photos, quotes, video and audio from guardian.co.uk/food curated by Rick Peters and Susan Smillie
A beautiful video about barrel making, via Core77:
“At the Brown-Forman Cooperage in Kentucky, coopers—actual, burly-looking guys with hammers...
