“Your time is up, we’ll have to pick you up, unfortunately” – The phrase is heard right at the end of the two-hour time slot in the dinning restaurant, when the third glass of Pinot Noir joins the senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What can 120 minutes of an hour do for you when you have to meet your girlfriend in a few months and you want to share news, tastes, snacks and the joy that mutual coexistence offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where does all this fit into an innovative, well-tuned, marketing approach code-named “time slot”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new era of timed reservations essentially began during the pandemic, when projected space distances and staff shortages created conditions that the average restaurant couldn’t cope with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reasons why this counterculture practice has persisted are simple: the limited time a group can spend at a table helps a restaurant sell more food to more people. It also makes it easier for staff to deliver a streamlined and predictable experience\u2014and gently push latecomers out the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big, leisurely dinners are fast becoming a thing of the past, and time – which melted and disappeared as people raised their glasses to say ‘cheers’ or ‘chin chins’ depending on the generation they belonged to – now looks like a terrifying beast. that all he wants is to devour everything he finds in front of him. Mainly the sweetness of intercourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who can really feel peace and contentment over a cool ceviche while looking intently at their watch lest they spend a few more minutes than they should as if they have to meet some suffocating deadline, as if they have to complete and deliver a project ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The experience became a transaction and the transaction became a routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hospitality, the basic principle of restaurant culture is changing its sign and with it is changing the way we perceive some of our basic pleasures, such as food and drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This new fruit of internalized anxiety that overwhelms our being every time we sit around a restaurant table with small or large company, requires an extra effort of management and certainly takes us away from what is wanted – this, of absolute surrender to the feast of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’re so sorry, we need your table” is the definition of passive aggressive. “Too bad”, as the female companion says, packing her bag with reluctance and some annoyance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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