Posted on 12/15/2023 3:45:18 PM PST by Drew68
Gen Z's struggles with anxiety are affecting their dining habits with most admitting to dealing with "menu anxiety" in restaurants, a new survey finds.
British restaurant chain Prezzo, which serves Italian cuisine, surveyed over 2,000 people in the UK about how at ease they felt when they ate out and it found that 86% of Gen Z had been impacted by "menu anxiety" when dining in restaurants compared to 67% of all respondents.
Menu anxiety was largely trigged by the cost of the meal, not being able to find something they like on the menu, and regretting what they ordered. Over a third of millennials said having too many options on a menu was also a trigger.
38% of Gen Z and millennials said they wouldn't go to a restaurant if they hadn't looked at the menu beforehand. A third of Gen Zers also said they ask other people to order at restaurants because of this anxiety.
Another source of anxiety for almost half of 25 to 34 year olds is not being able to pronounce the options on the menu when ordering.
Young people are also largely influenced by their social media use. A third of 25 to 34 year-olds would choose items on a menu that would look best on social media.
The younger generation tend to have more hang ups about how they appear in public, and a recent Gallup poll even found that they're more likely to report experiencing negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, and loneliness.
NYU business professor Jonathon Haidt told the Wall Street Journal that a "performative" social media culture is partly to blame for the high rates of anxiety and depression amongst Gen Z.
"We have a whole generation that's doing terribly," he said. "You're not creative, you're not future-thinking..."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
It sounds like an admission they can’t read and need pictures to look at.
Over a third of millennials said having too many options on a menu was also a trigger.
first world problems writ large...
“An Asian American couple is having some very hot sex. In the middle of the act, the man starts orgiastically shrieking, ‘I want number 69! I want number 69!’ Replies the wife, ‘Huh? You want beef with broccoli now?’ “
Gen ELOY...
Restauranteurs better start adding Safe Rooms with coloring books and nappy blankets for the snowflakes.
I can understand this. I get “toothpaste anxiety” at Walmart. There are 159 toothpastes to choose from and all I want is “Crest” which is IMPOSSIBLE to find. It takes me 15 minutes to find plain old “toothpaste.”
Don’t get me started on the deodorant selection, either!
I’ll stereotype here, but this is the most medicated, syndrome-laden, and spoiled generation of young people in US history. Morons who fly their Gay Flag as they show support for Hamas. I’m looking forward to taking from them when society collapses and they figure out nobody will help them.
Most of them should be ordering from the child’s menu.
Pathetic, but this is where we are.
It says 67% of everyone has it.
That’s the take home.
I think this entire study is absurd. Making up crap and getting money to “study” it.
Menu anxiety.
Who paid for this?
I've never been to China, but it seems some Chinese restaurants over here serve "authentic" Chinese food. Several years ago, there was a Chinese fast-food restaurant across the street from the University of Southern California that served a dish labeled "beef," but its consistency was a lot more like chitlins. Nonetheless, their "beef" was a lot better than any of the dishes available at chains like Panda Express.
Thank goodness that is a perception of what they want us to believe and not reality. In reality most of America is strong and not like that at all.
“Menu anxiety was largely trigged by the cost of the meal, not being able to find something they like on the menu, and regretting what they ordered. Over a third of millennials said having too many options on a menu was also a trigger.”
It’s a real bummer.
First world, hipster Gen Z problems.
Claiming to be “triggered” is infantile
Not that it really matters. Generational stereotyping is for weak minds ...
First world problems.
What wusses.
The waiter called them brains. Barney’ can’t unhear that.
Freedom of Choice is what we got.
Freedom from Choice is what we want.
I have come to tbe conclusion that the human brain cannot handle the changes to it wrought by the devices.
Unable.
That is not going to get better.
Worldwide.
They must all cook at home... Hahahahaha!
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