Apps, influencers, and hypebeast culture are turning dining into an elaborate TikTok skit,
And the food is just a prop. First you gotta yank out your phone to check the app to see if there's even a table. Then the waiter is basically a hand model holding out dishes for everyone to snap pics of like they're auditioning for Food Network. Dining out stopped being about the food ages ago - now it's just another exhausting performance for the internet's benefit.