No more restaurants

Eating together is an act as old as humanity itself, but culture-making restaurants were already in trouble before Covid.

Chains like Starbucks were offshoring their profits and using the proceeds to crush local coffee shops.

Extractor land-lorders were draining wealth from restaurateurs via hefty commercial rents.
Social anxiety rates were on the rise.

Vampire companies like Uber were creating delivery apps so people could eat at home.
For the next few decades, restaurant monopolies will continue to destroy the little guys, millions will go out of business as real estate costs soar to unimaginable heights, and dark kitchens will proliferate around the world.

Soon, the only options will be app-ordered McDonald’s cooked up by robots, or bleary-eyed delivery drivers dropping ghost kitchen meals at the doorstep of your overpriced condo rental.