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GIVE ME A MENU AND GET THAT QR CODE OFF MY RESTAURANT TABLE

by Larry Levine | Sep 15, 2022

There’s an elegance about a restaurant menu. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Michelin-starred, white tablecloth spot or a neighborhood burger joint. You’re greeted, led to a table and handed a menu. It may be styled in brilliant red with gold embossed lettering. Or it may... Read More

AS MORE RESTAURANTS CLOSE, LET US NEVER FORGET THIS DIDN’T HAVE TO HAPPEN

by Larry Levine | Aug 12, 2020

  By Larry Levine – Measured on a scale of more than 165,000 dead, the loss of some of our favorite restaurants doesn’t seem like much. Until we remember the people whose lives are invested in those restaurants. The owners who operate on slim profit margins. The... Read More

I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOUR BUTT CRACK / and other sartorial transgressions in an America that lost its couth

by Larry Levine | Jun 5, 2018

By Larry Levine – She was wearing a nice dress, dark with a muted floral print. Tasteful ear rings, hair well dressed. Totally appropriate for a Saturday night dinner at a nice restaurant. She looked to be about 30 years old. The man with her appeared to be about the... Read More

WHO’S CRAZIER, DONALD TRUMP OR THE FARMERS WHO SUPPORT HIM?

by Larry Levine | Jul 5, 2016

By Larry Levine – Suppose a candidate for public office told you that your biggest problem didn’t really exist and you knew he was either misinformed or lying. Suppose that same candidate promised that if elected he would do something to give you an even bigger... Read More

THE ANNOYING SNOBBERY OF TOP 50 RESTAURANT LISTS / don’t tell me it’s the best until you’ve tried them all

by Larry Levine | Jun 18, 2016

By Larry Levine – I really don’t like the word “best” when it comes to describing food or restaurants, or much of anything else for that matter There are too many great restaurants serving great food around the world for any to be designated the best, or the 50... Read More

WHY THE CMT (CORPORATELY MODIFIED TASTEBUDS) GENERATION LOVES FAST FOOD BURGERS / part three of three

by Larry Levine | Aug 30, 2015

By Larry Sheingold – Ever wonder why burger chains use near-naked models as their sales images? Why not run ads featuring goggle-eyed mad scientists instead? Yeah. Silly question. But the truth is today’s Dr. Frankensteins have more influence over your burger-buying... Read More

CAN RESTAURANTS SURVIVE IN THE PROCESSED FOODS ERA? / part two of three

by Larry Sheingold | Aug 19, 2015

By Larry Sheingold – “Devour food that’s good for you, the same way you devour food that is not good for you.” That’s the ad copy for a recent Panera Bread TV campaign – and the core of the restaurant chain’s marketing strategy for surviving the Corporately... Read More

CMT / what it is and why it’s a more immediate concern than GMO – part one of three

by Larry Sheingold | Aug 11, 2015

By Larry Sheingold – Are you OK with frog DNA in your corn chowder? Provocative topic no doubt, especially for vegans, but no less compelling than: are we regularly eating the food equivalent of lead paint? Extreme? Perhaps. But those were the kinds of... Read More

TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME ON INTERNET REVIEWS / when restaurant patrons get it wrong online

by Larry Sheingold | May 12, 2015

By Larry Sheingold – I’m at Alfred’s Steakhouse in San Francisco. Having precisely the dining experience I came for. And wondering about the on-line “real people” reviewers who saw Alfred’s differently. The cult of Internet tastemakers keeps growing. As does... Read More

FOR RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS / it’s time to can the ap and pick up the phone

by Larry Levine | Jul 17, 2014

By Larry Levine – ATTENTION: All you folks who think an ap button is human contact If you have come to rely on aps and the internet to make restaurant reservations: STOP. Go back to the old fashioned way; skip the online reservation services and call the... Read More
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    • FOR RESTAURANT RESERVATION / it’s time to can the ap & pick up the phone
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      • Give me a menu and take that QR code away
      • I Don’t Want to See Your Butt Crack
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    • Turning Down the Volume on Internet Reviews
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    • CMT / what it is and why it’s a more immediate concern than GMO
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