I’m putting this in Los Angeles because I don’t know what food trends are anywhere else for it to be in non-regional.
What food or trend do you wish would go out with the old year? Your thoughts? I’m curious.
I will start…
PLEASE… NO HOT HONEY!!!
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Smashburgers
Give me a thick burger over them anyday.
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POS terminals defaulting to 20% tip no matter if you order in, take out, to go, or whatever else.
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mandatory gratuity with an “additional” tip line
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Out:
N/A drinks costing as much as Alc ones.
In:
More places offering half portions for small parties to try more dishes!
More mid-range tasting menus (Give me some 100-125$ tastings! Looking at places like Corima and Acru in NYC)
Walk-In friendly restaurants (or more transparency on if you reserve seating for walk ins)
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Maybe this could be a separate thread but I 
agree
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LOL you’re right. I’ll reword:
Out:
Not offering half portions for small parties
Only 300$ + Tasting menus, more short tastings for 100-125!
Reservation only restaurants or no transparency on if you take walk-ins
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If people like hot honey I don’t mind but I’m never ordering it. I don’t want honey on my pizza period.
Dessert menus with chocolate in everything from pumpkin pie to cheesecake.
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Agree with all other but would wish that every restaurant only has reservations - I don’t want to go to a restaurant and now knowing if and when I could get a table or place at a bar (I al fully aware that these reservation systems are at a cost for the restaurants and that’s why some are not using it but we tend to avoid them even though they might have very interesting menus
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I don’t mean walk in only so much as letting me know “we take reservations but most of our tables are held for walk-ins” or “the bar is all walk in” a lot aren’t clear about it. Then, you at least ahve the option of making a reservation (even if it’s harder) to know you’ll get a table. I miss a sense of spontaneity when I’m in a neighborhood and can’t figure out if we can even TRY to walk in somewhere.
That, or just enable the join waitlist feature on Resy/Yelp/OT! I’ve used this at restaurants and then I get there and they have no idea what I’m talking about which is infuriating
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I don’t mind people liking what they like either, but it’s just one of those things that’s like everywhere. So… annoying lol. And yeah, on pizza no way.
I have a thing about honey anyway. 
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Agree with this!
So played out.
Cured meat (pep or sop), and jalapeños with hot honey is in on alot of new school NYC pizza spot. I kinda like it but still prefer a regular slice.
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Both my parents have waited tables to provide for me so I try to be a very generous tipper when dining in BUT.
20% is wild for a to-go bill. They know most people will default to the pre selected options for tip so give you the options of 18% plus and above.
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Chawanmushi
Scan the qr menu and read on your phone
All natural wine list
One scallop dish (I mean, there is just one scallop in the therefore sad dish)
Can’t cancel reservation because I bought a ticket
Move around from one room to another (fancy restaurants)
Incomprehensible mumbling descriptions of every aspect of every dish
More generally, pre-packaged spiels as opposed to conversations
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Homie, I didn’t think about it til you said but the obligatory chawanmushi course needs to go. I could live without the scallop+caviar+sauce crutch too.
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Way too many people make reservations and never go to the restaurants or cancel the reservation. It’s the only reasonable way for restaurants to make sure to still get money from those idiots (which often make multiple reservation for the same day and time just to “have a better choice”$
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People do this?!? Never heard of it, but that’s fucked up.
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A prepaid ticket is not the only way to combat this. A financial penalty if canceling within a certain time of the reservation works just as well. OpenTable and Resy both support that. Many restaurants in Japan use a refined version of that whereby you can cancel without penalty until some defined time before, then the cancelation penalty increases as the reservation gets closer.
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For sure. See it all the time. Especially on holidays like NYE/Valentines when there’s a special menu. Knew a person that was some rich dude’s assistant, and they would make multiple reservations at different hard to get into restaurants just in case that person wanted to go out that night. Restaurants can charge a cancelation fee, but many of the ones that say they charge don’t actually go through with it because then they’re dealing with bank disputes and angry calls from annoying people who don’t read the cancelation policy.
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