{"id":199,"date":"2007-07-23T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/23\/gourmet-fast-food\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T02:31:08","slug":"gourmet-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/23\/gourmet-fast-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Fast Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants almost universally try to bundle cheap food with cheap service and expensive food with expensive service. Often this makes sense. But when I just want food, expensive service can be slow enough to be less desirable than McDonald&#8217;s style service. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I want cheap food.<br \/>\nA few weeks ago I ate at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesierraweb.com\/tiogagasmart\/deli.html\">Mobil station in Lee Vining<\/a> (just outside of Yosemite) with some fellow backpackers just before heading to the mountains. We each paid more than $25 a person for our dinner, and got food that looked and tasted like I would expect from a $25+ meal at a moderately fancy restaurant, yet the service was fairly close to fast food service &#8211; we ordered at a cash register, and picked our food up at a counter (although it probably took 3 or 4 minutes longer than McDonald&#8217;s does).<br \/>\nWhy haven&#8217;t I seen any other restaurants that imitate this style? It appears to work there (it was crowded, but since that was a holiday weekend, I can&#8217;t tell how typical that was). If there were such restaurants near my home, I&#8217;d expect to eat at them more than once a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants almost universally try to bundle cheap food with cheap service and expensive food with expensive service. Often this makes sense. But when I just want food, expensive service can be slow enough to be less desirable than McDonald&#8217;s style service. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I want cheap food. A few weeks ago I ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_univ_etc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}