[PLUG-TALK] Open-Source Restaurants

[Galen Seitz]

On 04/29/16 08:29, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Chinese restaurants outside of China, and especially in the US, are the
> restaurant equivalent to linux while McDonald's and the other chains are the
> equivalent of Microsoft's Windows. Both venues have a consistency and
> predictability that is comforting (attractive, even) to customers but one
> achieves that by voluntary community contributions while the other by diktat
> from a single source. This theme is well documented in Chapter 17 of
> Jennifer 8. Lee's most excellent book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:
> Adventures in the World of Chinese Food."

Thanks for the recommendation.  Given your description, anyone that is
interested in this book would likely also enjoy the movie "The Search
For General Tso".
<http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com/>

Given the similarities, it's possible this movie is based on the book.


galen
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