28 minutes ago, AlaMoi said:how many seats?
how many entrees?
if you have 40 seats and three entrees, that's a max. demand splatter of 120 "portions" to be "on-hand"
not everyone orders the same thing.
Um, if it is a tasting menu, as almost all places that use this system would have (like the aforementioned Next Restaurant and Alinea, in Chicago; as well as gfron1's intended place) --- then there is no choice of entrees, or maybe a very limited selection from two (or three, in very rare cases). There is a single menu of what you will be served, (with limited choices, as mentioned, if any; and the price will be the same for the overall meal; and places that even offer these choices would be few, if they use this system) and everyone gets the same series of dishes. There may be a selection on your part when you first book of which tasting menu you wish to have (or you might contact them to see if you can have an alternative menu - say, a vegetarian one) but you will not have the ability to sit down once there and peruse a menu of all sorts of choices and make your selection from dishes from different categories with different individual prices. If that is not how you ever will eat out, then this model is not for you. Ever. On a different food board I used to post on, one particular poster said that he would never eat in some restaurants where you had to eat what the chef placed on the "menu" for the day and where you did not have the ability to choose from a wide array of all sorts of dishes - as it turned out from subsequent discussion, because that poster felt strongly about "giving up control" in any way whatsoever.
