#restaurants #dining #EatingOut #DigestiveDistress #StomachIssues #SpicyFood #OverpricedRestaurants
The well-dressed waiter brings out the pink elixir.
In an ad for Pepto Bismol, a patron at what looks to be a fancy restaurant experiences some digestive distress, and the waiter brings out the Pepto wrapped in a cloth napkin.
First, if one owned the restaurant, and a customer became distressed, wouldn’t you inquire about what he ate? Would you try to trace what might have caused the distress?
And, why, as an elegant restaurant, would you make it a point to have Pepto on hand for customers?
Finally, if you experienced digestive distress at a restaurant, how likely would it be that you would go back to that restaurant?
These are all questions designed to illustrate how farfetched the ad is.
But it also raises questions about dining out, and what you eat.
Do you frequently eat spicy food? Do you relish enduring as much heat as possible when you eat?
If so, digestive distress may be a regular occurrence, whether dining in or dining out.
If you stay away from spicy food, and you get digestive distress after an elegant meal, then you may want to determine whether that restaurant is suitable. If you pay a big bill – which could also give you distress – on top of your queasiness, then you should re-evaluate your dining options.
Restaurants, particularly elegant ones, often charge a premium. For that price, the food needs to be tasty, plentiful – or, at least, satisfying – and the atmosphere needs to be, well, elegant.
The food should never make the clientele sick, or give them distress.
Even less expensive restaurants shouldn’t give their diners distress.
If they do, and they’ve made an honest mistake, they should own up to it.
No one would expect them to do it deliberately.
Offering them medicinal relief upon distress is a sign that you might expect your diners to get ill.
That would not be good for business.
The bottom line is if you have a sensitive digestive system, you should be careful what you eat, and where you might eat it.
Some restaurants’ prices should indicate that they expect their food to be good, and distress-free.
By the way, some restaurants are overpriced for no good reason. Others are worth the splurge. Know the difference.
Bon appetit.
Peter
#economy #government #GovernmentEmployees #tariffs #inflation #eggs
Egg prices are soaring because of the bird-flu spread.
That is likely to affect prices diners will pay in restaurants.
If the market doesn’t bear those higher prices, restaurants could go out of business.
Then, if a number of federal employees lose their jobs, unemployment could go way up.
If those workers do not have paychecks, they won’t spend as much. It could put other stores out of business.
Will those furloughed federal workers find private-sector jobs? Perhaps some will. Perhaps others may have to take jobs that don’t pay as well as their government jobs, or do not have the same benefits they had with the government.
That will affect their spending, which could trickle down to other businesses.
When tariffs are added to the mix, they will raise the cost of many other goods. Most, if not all, of those increased costs will be passed on to consumers.
Much of this economic turmoil is government inflicted. Much of it is unnecessary.
Most people want to see government run as efficiently as possible. Many want to see less government overall.
Almost no one wants to see a broken government – particularly one that was broken deliberately.
The act of breaking government eventually will affect most, if not all, U.S. citizens and residents.
Even if you believe government needs to be overhauled, there are ways to do it that are both legal, humane and proper. They do not involve potential invasions of individual privacy.
Objections to what is going on are largely not objections to efficiency and lowering costs. They are over the manner in which they are being accomplished.
Perhaps some good will come from this turmoil. Perhaps we will be in a better place after the operatives are finished.
But, in the meantime, the economy – and the personal wealth and well-being of many individuals—could be adversely affected.
If you don’t like what’s going on, tell your representatives. Their jobs are on the line if the outcome is not good.
It’s easy to be frustrated, exhausted and demoralized by what is happening.
But, as with most adversity, one has to look for what is good in one’s life, what can’t be taken away and what each person can do to improve his or her own future.
It takes great personal strength to do that during these times.
Here’s hoping that everyone finds that strength and uses it to better his or her own life, and the lives of others.
Things are what they are, but they don’t have to be this way.
Peter
