And when it’s boring, you’ll never return. That’s a maxim: Mark my words.

What exactly makes a meal boring? After all going out is fun and dining out is a special experience to take you away into another realm of excitement. When it becomes routine, either you dine out too much or choose places that merely deliver, as in drop plates at the table. Life is way too taxing to frequent places that cannot cater to the customer. Places that do not know how to communicate.

Dining out is a ceremony, a calculated dance of perfect timing and flavorful fun. When someone comes to the table with an armful of food and has no clue who has what or which item is on the plate–yeah maybe it’s the chicken, not sure, let me check–you are losing out on part of the experience. At the same time, the server who merely plops food in front of a diner is not making the evening out special. It needs to be special.

Dining out should not be a scripted performance. a rigid, sterile experience. Rather a careful dance, not a tango, much more of a waltz, with grace and precision. Then it is fun.

Then we are likely to return.