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Always thought it was just a coincidence of two families having the same name and engaged in very different businesses
Also the tire guy is named Bibendum 
TL;DR Two Fr*nch men start a tire company. To encourage more driving, they made a road guide which had instructions on how to care for the car, and restaurants to visit on the road.
Only bougie frogs could afford vehicles, so they started giving stars, Michelin Stars, to restaurants that were worth the drive. That eventually spun off into its own thing, which we now know today
https://thestrategystory.com/2021/03/05/michelin-star-restaurant-story
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Very cool, I always assumed it was a coincidence too.
That said fine dining is subculture of insane r-sluration where lunatics cokeheads lose their shit constantly over gasoline for your body that will be shit in mere hours. I will continue to rate restuarants I go to based on the most important metric: did i have to see "people" when eating there? 0 3 quint stars 1-2 2 quint stars 3 or more not fit for dining in.
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There's restaurants for introverts in like, Japan where your table has a fricking blackout curtain enclosure and the fricking waiters never see you directly. Maybe you'd like that, b-word?
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Restaurants in japan were almost always 3 quint stars, they have favorable demographics.
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Japanese autism is always a glimpse of what's in store for socially r-slurred young Americans
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I get that in one of my local restaurants but that's because they like me and give me a private room without having to pay for it.
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This is true, and it isn't true. There's plenty of overrated, pretentious shit in the category, but there are some highly rated places like Le Bernardin where if you are willing to dump your money into trying it, you will eat something that is so unlike what you're used to that it blows your mind.
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