"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:11:49 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>
>> Hop Jacks serves their food in a pie tin. Yep. A lightweight, slippery
>> bottomed metal pie tin that wants to shoot across the table as you try to
>> eat.
>>
>> What is with this stuff? Can we not serve our food on plates? And why
>> do
>> we throw the trash on the floor? Am I being a stick in the mud? Or do
>> people really like this?
>
> I don't get it either, but people like it or they wouldn't be in
> business. Japan is worse.
> http://piximus.net/others/4-amazing-...awesome-themes
> http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/1...taurants/3861/
> http://www.theguardian.com/travel/20...nts-japan-food

I don't mind some themed restaurants but I prefer having my food served on
plates. This place also used the plastic baskets with the paper liner. I
don't really get that either.

I do remember dining at the Madonna Inn.

http://www.madonnainn.com/

I guess the big draw there were the themed rooms and it does look like it
has changed a lot since we were there. The restaurant we dined in had life
sized moving...uh...mannequins? Not sure what to call them. There were
several but the only one I remember well was a woman on a swing who swooped
back and forth above our heads and between two rows of tables. This was not
a cheap place. The food was good and it was very clean.