There’s a reason restaurants everywhere are failing: Red Hen Syndrome

The Spectator ^ | 07/22/2018 | Rod Liddle

[MaxistheBest]

It may be that we’ve had all we can take, especially when these outlets are suffused with such self-importance. --------------------------------------------------------

The Red Hen is where the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, took her family for a bite to eat, and from which she was evicted when the homosexual staff recognised who she was. Her rude defenestration was supported by the restaurant’s owner, citing Donald Trump’s reluctance to allow transgender people to serve in the US military. It is, clearly, a liberals-only restaurant. They should write that on the front door, so that everything is clear, but as a sop maybe have a water fountain out front labelled ‘for conservatives’.

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But support for the horrible Red Hen was outweighed by about five to one by enraged conservatives, one of whom advised immigrants that the restaurant was offering free meals to illegal aliens and all they had to do was ring the number, which they quoted in full. My favourite, though, came from a local bloke who said that people in the area were disgusted with the Red Hen and that the owner was ‘a New York transplant’ and related to Meryl Streep. Enough said!

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Cooking is not terribly difficult. Nor is it an art. It is at best what Orwell referred to as a ‘half art’, like photography. We have undoubtedly benefited from the increased prestige conferred upon people who can put stuff in a frying pan and stir it quite adeptly, these past 40 years. But latterly it has also bred within the restaurateurs a distance from and even a contempt towards the people they are serving. So that they are now agreed that the feedback they receive from their customers is utterly worthless: they know what they are doing and nobody can tell them otherwise.

[elcid1970]

It’s simple: the same dish, prepared with equal skill to the same standards with like ingredients, will taste better with a restaurant wrapped around it, than it will at home.

Is that sexist?

;^)

[lee martell]

If Sarah had truly been defenestrated, Papa Huckabee would have been off the leash and on the air letting us all know about it.

[FLT-bird]

I hardly ever eat out. I like to cook, its not difficult, I can have more control over the amount of salt in my food (most people don’t realize how much salt is in restaurant food) and its a lot cheaper. I go to the best grocery stores and buy the top quality fresh produce, meat, bakery items, etc. Its still way cheaper.

The average American spends a bit over $3,000 per year at restaurants. I’d rather not spend it on that and instead buy nice things - like guns for example - with that same money.

[mikeus_maximus]

Look up “Defenestration of Catholics at Prague.”

[umgud]

I can name a large handful of eateries in my town that are packed with snooty, better than thou customers and staff. And guess what; their food is horrible, unless you’re in for humus covered kale.

[p. henry]

I usually think of the third defenestration of Prague: Jan Masaryk.

[Ken H]

There’s nothing better a good cafeteria with traditional food.

[waterhill]

Carrabas here in TX is Italian with a southern flair. I have only eaten there once, but I have a cookbook from them. A new look (for me) at cooking Italian.

Maybe I should say a southern Texas flair....

[p. henry]

Cost is becoming an issue as a consequence of changes in minimum wage laws, at least here in California. We’ve really cut back except for a good and inexpensive sushi place within walking distance of our home.

[Fiji Hill]

The author gets 45 free points for using “Defenestration” in a sentence. It means to throw someone out through a window.
Who knew we needed a word just for that?

The Defenstration of Prague, 1618--Jaroslav Bořita and Vilém Slavata and Filip Fabricius are thrown out of a window (they were all unhurt after they landed)

[Mears]

What on earth is Italian with a southern flair-—Italian is Italian?

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[I am Richard Brandon]

Isaac Asimov

[MaxistheBest]

“Carrabas here in TX”

My wife made country fried steaks parmesan with a 4 cheese red sauce...as good as it gets:)

[moovova]

Prices don’t seem THAT bad. You’d pay that much in a good restaurant in Charlotte. Food looked good too...at least on the menu. They shot themselves in the foot.

[MaxistheBest]

“What on earth is Italian with a southern flair-—Italian is Italian?”

see post 53

[tbw2]

What makes Red Hen more egregious was that after Ms. Sanders’ family left, the liberal bully organized a group to harass her at the SECOND eatery she entered.
She wasn’t just refused service. The liberal bullies then continued to disturb her after she moved on. That’s assault.

[Fungi]

Well said. Me too....

[jonrick46]

The Red Hen food offerings I believe are overpriced. My local seafood restaurant has comparable prices with a great view of the Puget Sound and yes, you can go out and eat on the deck. My favorite restaurant, besides incredible seafood, also has great beef that would make the Red Hen's look like overcooked leather. It is the cooking that makes a restaurant fail. The most successful ones also have a view like this:

[lee martell]

That method of executing one’s enemies was rather primitive.
Even barbaric. We ridicule Islamists for killing gays this same way in today’s world.
What if they survived the fall, were people forbidden to help them out of the street? We’ve come a long way from throwing people we don’t like out of high windows. I hope anyway.

[Ciexyz]

Somehow I thought ‘defenestration’ was to strip a forest clean. Oh well.