I don’t understand...who doesn’t make restaurant reservations?

What a strange post! Do people not understand this basic concept?

Wait, when did reservations go away? I always did made them at restaurants I knew would be busy.
This sounds like it might be a regional thing, and the author doesn’t know that other places are different.

Why wouldn’t you make a restaurant reservation if you can? I don’t know anyone that thinks it’s better to just show up. Calling in to make a reservation also lets the customer gage how busy the restaurant is. It goes both ways.

wait, reservations were “old fashioned”? since when?

I’d love to know what prompted this article.  Before the pandemic I was part of a group that went to a new restaurant monthly, so I knew a ton of foodies.  Most of us wouldn’t have dreamed of going to a restaurant nicer than Chipotle without making a reservation. 

The article also seems to if anything make an argument against reservations in certain circumstances, if it’s considered bad etiquette to make one and then only order drinks and apps. Which seems silly to me (no one would say it’s bad etiquette to make a reservation just to order the cheapest entree and no alcohol,…

Also, I’ve never heard of the idea of reservations being “old-fashioned” from the customer side. If anything the more common situation I’ve found is where I want to make a reservation, but the restaurant isn’t doing them. Which I can understand if they for whatever reason aren’t signed up for services that require a…

So what is the counter argument? Who out there is saying “you know, dinner reservations are a bad idea for the restaurant/servers/patrons”?

Re: Into The Wild, author Dana Stabenow calls this “suicide by Alaska.”

A common theme here is movies that intend to satirize or condemn masculine violence are instead interpreted as totally earnest celebrations of it. And it’s an evergreen problem: how many people think Walter White is genuinely aspirational? How many people left Joker thinking Arthur was totally justified?

Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in 1963, Mohamed Bouazizi in 2011. How does that add up to “two years after Thich Quang Duc protested and died in Saigon”?

Stirring them into a bowl of raw batter can cause them to burst, coloring your entire pancake. And, even if they make it through the stirring portion of the recipe, a hot pan can cause them to rupture on contact.

“Begging the question” is really a tautology. Example: Lifehackers is the best website ever because it has the best article. It is important to note that a fallacy is not necessarily false.

“Donald Trump is a moron” is an ad hominem attack. It is also true.

This does beg the question as to how to prevent people from misusing ‘begging the question’. 

Fair enough, I just don’t think it’s required for everyone to shut down a bodily function just because. 

Or, how about not bothering with it. Unless you can’t shower daily or live someplace where you’re sweating all day, it’s rarely necessary. 

I am also surprised and confused by the banana. I’ve never heard anyone mention the smell, positively or negatively. It’s so mild to me that I doubt I’ve ever really noticed, and I’m a low level perfume nerd. 

I have never noticed that a banana skin gives off an odor before. Certainly not in the few minutes it would take to dispose of said carcass. On my recent cross country trip, it seemed that one of the attendants was walking up and down the aisles collecting trash pretty regularly. Unless you are stuffing the peel down…

I’ll defend bananas, but I’m with you on the others. (Come on - nature gives you a tasty, healthy snack with slow-release energy and a built-in carrying case? It’s the perfect airplane snack, delightfully mild odor or no.)