

The writer Adam Gopnik has noted how “the restaurant is the primal scene of modern life. Most modern urban people mark their lives by their moments in cafes and restaurants… we are courted, spurned, recruited, hired, fired, lured to a new job, or released from an old one at a table while a waiter hovers nearby.”
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