When you walk into a restaurant, you’re bombarded with signals that tell you what kind of place it is. But what happens when those signals bring certain people in, and keep others out?
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As a middle-aged dad, writer Bill Buford moved his family to France to see if he could cut it as a chef in a high end restaurant. He learned that the French love rules — and so does he.
Can tweaking one table turn around a restaurant's prospects?
The comedian and podcast host tells us how to navigate a big meal in tight jeans, who should pay on a first date, and what it’s like to go out to eat when you’re in an interracial relationship.
What judgments do we make about a restaurant's food based on how the people working there look?
Football announcer Howard Cosell played an unlikely role in popularizing nachos, as we hear when Dan sits down with his friend Mike Pesca, host of The Gist podcast. And Mike rants about restaurants.