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A comment on Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the perfect lunch (2012).

Re:Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the p... by starbeast on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:12AM (#18374985)
>I also start to worry if many women in a restaurant are beautiful in a trendy or stylish way. The point is not that beautiful women have bad taste in food. Instead, the problem is that they will attract a lot of men to the restaurant, whether or not the place serves excellent food. And that allows the restaurant to cut back on the quality of the food.

There are issues this writer has with eating out, that no amount of good food will solve.

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Re:Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the p... by jbob2000 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:15AM (#18375704)
Hooters isn’t in business because of the quality of their food. They pioneered an entire genre of restaurants called “breastaurants” where this is the case - you pay premium prices not for the food but for the boobs.
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Re:Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the p... by starbeast on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#18375874)
Anything calling itself a 'breastaurant' is just a really crap strip club with a food fetish.

Besides, that isn't really what I was getting at. I don't think it is what the author was getting at either.

What I was trying to get at is that enjoyment of food is highly subjective and this writer says he gets himself worried if he sees pretty women enjoying themselves at the same restaurant he has just entered. He is basically setting himself up for a sequence of self-fulfilling prophecies that start from having an utterly ridiculous set of biases in the first place.

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