I thought the premise was great, and it's a perfectly nice story, but I wish it had more to carry it than flat dialogue and extreme detail about each restaurant's menu. The story being written in vignettes worked against the main idea of the plot to me, making the unique characters feel disjointed from the story and forgettable. Nothing really stood out and the ending came with no real reflection at all. I would've liked more showing rather than blunt telling. It all felt very blunt throughout, which isn't my cup of tea in storytelling.

The main character exists in a sort of paradox of having an extremely distinct voice, but the voice in question is almost indistinguishable from a snarky Saturday morning cartoon character. There are so many moments of cleverness and wit that have to fight past the disaffected class clown voice to shine through. They do though, anyway, and there's quite a lot of great humor in the form of quippy anecdotes and callbacks.

I didnt dislike it, but it felt unfinished. Nice concept but somehow even with a rotating cast of characters and quippy anecdotes, the story felt empty. Would love to see it get its feet under it.