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10 Restaurant Pet Peeves & Ideas for Better Dining

Not everything can be “tapas," using review sites as rage therapy, and overstimulation at experience restaurants—plus more food and drink grievances

By Jackie Bryant January 16, 2025

10 Restaurant Pet Peeves & Ideas for Better Dining

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In this episode of Happy Half Hour, hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant air their pet peeves, small and large and farcical. There’s some real info here (the cost of eggs is insane), they suggest a policy for “no interruption dining,” and Troy lays out the plans for his ultimate kid-friendly restaurants, which involves stadium seating at abandoned ice rinks across the city. Very specific hopes and dreams for a utopian food and drink culture in 2025. Check out the episode above.

About Jackie Bryant

Jackie is a long-time freelance journalist covering cannabis, food/restaurants, travel, labor, wine, spirits, arts & culture, design, and other topics. Her work has been selected twice for Best American Travel Writing, and she has won a variety of national and local awards for her writing and reporting.

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