>>41447851not him but diners as a concept in the US are kind of .. old? Passe? At least around here they are. Fast-casual like Chipotle are the new "it's not fast food and not a fancy restaurant but is a chain" meta. Also doordash/ubereats has blurred the line further, even local burger places I go to it's like half the orders are ubereats drivers coming in picking shit up.
In Japan the whole family-restaurant/diner type thing is still alive and well it seems but not really so here. Stuff like Sizzler here? Went bankrupt in the 90s. Yet it's quite similar to what they still do a lot over there. That's.. kinda nice actually, fast food/fast casual just dominated over diners here generally, they usually don't get big enough to operate as chains anymore and are local mom and pop efforts. The only local one I went to was literally just drunk food with friends because it was across the street from a bar and stayed open late for our business. And guess what, even that one closed years back.
So to me it's kinda bittersweet seeing Japan have fun with this kind of idea still because we sort of don't really have it now. Of course their diners are better - we don't really do those anymore. Japan's Western tastes got picked up from like 1950s America which was at least as far as I can tell around the peak heyday of diners.
