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Diners Are Too Expensive
Hamilton Nolan · 03/01/16 10:57AMRats In Restaurants Are Not a Big Deal
Hamilton Nolan · 10/21/15 02:17PMThe Best Restaurant in New York Is: The Tenement Museum
Caity Weaver · 01/21/15 09:07AMFoie Gras Is For Assholes
Hamilton Nolan · 01/08/15 09:54AMThis Valentine's Day, Show Your Love By Ignoring Valentine's Day
Ken Layne · 02/14/14 12:05PMWith dull eyes and open mouths, they crowd the streets and fill the restaurants. Some are teenagers, some are straight, some are gay, and far too many are married adults who would usually be found at home watching the television at night. They are the zombies of St. Valentine's Day, and they're just as miserable as they look.
The Restaurant Put the Fork and Knife There In Hopes You Might Use Them
Ken Layne · 01/13/14 11:35AMOf course you should use silverware when you're eating dinner at a restaurant that has provided silverware, right there next to your non-paper plate. Nobody believes otherwise. But here's our important new populist debate about whether New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is too fancy because he used a fork and knife to eat a pizza dinner in a sit-down restaurant.
Restaurants Are Full of Old People Now
Hamilton Nolan · 12/12/13 12:43PMWorld's Coolest 103-Year-Old Man Eats Fancy Dinner Every Night
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 09/29/13 09:30AMHamilton Nolan · 09/18/13 03:09PM
Americans Are Consuming Breakfast at an Unsafe Speed
Hamilton Nolan · 05/13/13 01:26PMWhen "fast food" was invented back in the 1950s or whenever, we were cautiously optimistic. A ground hamburger patty and french-fried potatoes served in less time than it takes to raise and slaughter a cow, plant a field of potatoes, and build a fire? Sure, why not? But today it seems that Americans have forgotten how to take their time with their food.
Daft Americans Pay More For the Privilege of Eating Less
Hamilton Nolan · 02/07/13 02:50PMThe Future of Food Is Williamsburg, Basically
Hamilton Nolan · 11/12/12 12:12PMThere was a time, Ad Age tells us, when canned soup or cereal were considered "easy" foods to prepare and consume. Can you imagine? The package-opening, the pouring-out, the adding of milk or water—if that was "easy," people in the olden days must have had it rough! Kids these days know better. For America's Greatest Generation—the Millennials—the future of food is a simple process of raising the Tater Stuffer™ from the rotating 7-11 heating case into one's mouth in one smooth, painless motion.
The Choice of a Fast Food Restaurant Is a Very Meaningful Choice
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/12 03:15PMFast food restaurants: do you think they're "all the same?" Sure, and I guess human beings are "all the same" too, right? That's what Hitler thought, as well. For the rest of you, who know better, America's fast food establishments beseech you to take into considerations all the important factors relevant to your choice of a casual dining establishment. Once you purchase that McGriddle, there's no going back for a Croissanwich. This choice is forever.
Dead Malls Will Soon Be Really Depressing Restaurants
Hamilton Nolan · 09/19/12 01:25PMThe American mall is dying, and dying, and, let me check... yep, still dying. Not just big huge malls, but big-box stores, and strip malls, and everything else that consists of chain stores shaped like boxes, made out of plastic, selling crap. America, in other words. Now our national landscape is littered with the only thing worse than big box stores: empty big box stores. Hey, ho, is there any solution?
A Guide to America's Worst Restaurants for Workers
Hamilton Nolan · 06/13/12 11:03AMSince we're on the topic of basic fairness for the working people of America, here is a useful thing: a pro-worker group called Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has produced a handy pocket guide to many of America's most popular restaurants, to let you know exactly how badly their employees are treated. The short version, below.