Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 10, 2023

I agree with Arlo. Something about sitting with a menu instead of standing in front of one makes it worthwhile.

What is the silver lining?

I remember a Tumbleweeds comic taking place at the Pemmican Burgers 15c booth. A customer asked to look over the menu, and the clerk pulled out a ladder.

QR code menus turn me off, too.

Sit down restaurant with menus?

Just about anything is better than a QR menu.

Are they dining at the Lobster Shack?

I’m glad they finally left the house! I was getting worried about them.

Let’s hope Arlo’s wallet has some silver as well as lining.

No lamination allowed.

Went to an upscale place for our anniversary this year (49) and husband kept complaining about the guy in his line of sight wearing a backward ball cap.

If a restaurant doesn’t have a real menu, I can’t eat there. I don’t have a smart phone…..no plans to get one, either.

High priced restaurants are food snobs. And the portions they serve are never enough to actually say afterwards, “I’m full” After the last place where dinner for 2 came to $175, we decided never ever again. The experience wasn’t worth the cost. Plus, I had to wear a suit, which I really hate, and wife had to wear a fancy dress, which she hates. The best steak house/restaurant I ever ate at, was the The Red Barn in San Antonio Texas. Prime aged beef, the menu was a big sign placed high up on a couple of walls, the tables were picnic tables with benches for seating. Could easily seat a couple of hundred people

There was a news story on my local news a few weeks ago about Millennials in the Seattle area starting to prefer restaurants that have physical menus instead of QR codes.

I work for a non-profit that deals with the blind and visually impaired. The term “tactile menus” means something else there.

Pages you can turn is actually a better way to browse, objectively.

At first I thought Arlo meant a sticky menu. I’ve eaten at many of those places.

Arlo is probably talking about having to scan a QR code on his phone

Menus with little pieces of dried food from the previous diners stuck to it.⁵

…as long as they don’t have tassels (sure sign of high prices for poor food)

Arlo you missed your opening, “I like going to a nice place with you, besides your worth it.”

And I don’t like digital menus or ones you have to look at on your phone!

And every silver lining has a cloud.

Even Mickey D’s getting outrageous. All that technology to replace $15/hour help must cost money. But they DID warn us, I guess.

What’s a ‘tactile menu’? Printed on rough paper?

Tactile menus always seem to come with a 45 minute wait for your food. Dairy Queen brings my chicken tenders to the table in five minutes and even lets me refill my drink.

“We, the elite, have our standards.”

(Nothing that’s been on the floor longer than one day."

We can still find good restaurants most anywhere worth going. Our son in Vegas likes a place called Bootleggers. Sinatra ate there. ‘Nuff said.

I only eat in restaurants with decimal points in the prices.

I still forget and ask waitperson to wrap my leftovers. Their look says, “Ok Boomer!” As they turn to get me a box.

We are not rich by most definitions but we don’t have to worry at all about money yet my wife is an erstwhile Janis — always remarking about the high price rather than (like me) just saying “I want this for dinner” without looking at the $$. Overall it is a good balance

I rarely eat in very expensive restaurants. I won’t enjoy the meal if I know it costs more than $30. There are a couple of exceptions for special occasions.

And then there are the restaurants which don’t print the prices in the menu. Message: “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

The last time I went to a very expensive restaurant the food was great but serving size tiny.

Insisting on a sitdown restaraunt doesn’t seem very Arlo and Janis