I was just talking with someone about the old restaurants and cafes that would have the faded pictures of the food up in the light boxes.

No professionally staged, meticulously lit promo shots of impossibly perfect burgers. No AI slop. No looping video screens of people tearing and squeezing food in weird ways. Just a faded old photo that someone snapped exactly as it comes from the kitchen.

Stopped partway doing dishes?

Japan has the peak method of restaurant dish advertising for restaurants: Sanpuru

When will restaurants realize the ideal restaurant doesn't even have pictures of their food. A crinkled laminated text only paper menu, torn upholstery, and faded window paint is what the ideal restaurant looks like

That looks a little too spicy for me

I was at a restaurant that was doing a professional photo shoot for their food, it looked incredible.

Is that the famous bread and water soup?

This thin gruel could have presentation & sugar added to it and be sold as a $14 aperitif

Is this wanton soup?

It looks like a soggy cracker in water.

You're supposed to boil that until the water is gone, bro.

Prost.

"Food" Ahh food