What are we going to eat today? One of the most difficult and perplexing questions in the world is a traditional daily question in every home and institution, and there are disagreements between family members, co-workers and friends who visit restaurants. I hear the question at home and hear it at work, as well as the complaints of co-workers about the confusion they have over their inability to determine the type of food.
I eat my lunch without looking at the details, because lunch is variable compared to the dinner that I always try to escape from home to eat by a friend, because I quickly saturate from repetition. Here's a routine that happens every day:
At work: A colleague raises his head in front of the computer screen and looks at his colleagues around him and says: Lunch? The group gets up and goes toward the car, and before they get there, one asks: What or where will we eat today? There is a strange silence and no one wants to answer, and some pretend to think even though they are actually waiting for the answer from others.
Perplexed causes:
First, lunch time is limited and the budgets of colleagues are also limited, and based on these two factors a decision will be made. Even if they have money and have three hours, the confusion will come after a while.
Second, the saturation factor, there is a wide range of restaurants selling limited types of food (five Indian restaurants, five Arabic, four fast food and three Turkish), and no matter how you try it will reach saturation, and this means that the mere thought of these restaurants after saturation plugs the appetite.
Third, there are conflicting tastes and choices because of the backgrounds of people, this wants Indian food, and those want healthy eating, and that wants an Arab meal. Even when the group members agree on a particular restaurant, the confusion comes back through the limited menu despite its variety, as it is known that the large number of options generate confusion.
Here you will see the waiter standing on the heads of customers waiting to make their choices, and see him or her go to serve the neighboring table, and then return to take the request of the confused group.
If we assume that all the restaurants around the premises are healthy, the confusion will inevitably come, because the person going to these restaurants will be overwhelmed by the absorption of information in all menus, because his memory is unable to absorb the vast amount of information, or fall into the confusion of choice.
We return to the poor group of co-workers, who are very puzzled and unable to choose, one of them turned to the neighboring tables to see something like him and solve the dilemma, while the other, addicted «Social Media» has decided to enter the restaurant account on «Instagram» to see the pictures.
When the owner of Social Media saw a picture of a meal that was frequently repeated, he decided to choose it because it was the best-selling. But what if he did not like the meal despite the repetition of pictures! Here puzzling will turn into a knot!
When I was in Scotland, last month, I ate a Mexican restaurant six times in eight days, which made me ridicule my family who criticized my criticism of repeating food!
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
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