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Kate Hawkesby: The dining experience has changed - not always for the better
So our post-pandemic dining behaviours, according to this Herald article I read, talked about how much more expensive dining out is these days - $50 mains it quoted.
The upshot is we appear to be getting less food for more money, restaurants are getting tougher on turning tables, and people are dining earlier.
The reporter asked, ‘what’s happened to hospitality?’ and I take her point. It can feel like it’s not all that hospitable anymore.
The last time we dined in Auckland’s CBD at a well-known well-regarded restaurant we felt something was amiss - a new kind of disinterest in diners, a…
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