Tyler Cowen: preference

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…Yes. Here’s another question from Twitter, then. @perrosi1980 says, “Food question: delivery and takeout during lockdown — is it a temporary blip or a permanent change to eating out?” Permanent change. To some extent, I think maybe a third of that shift will stick. I don’t myself like takeout. I think the food tastes much worse. I would just do whatever is possible to make it fresh, served at the right moment at the right temperature. If that means I cook it, so be it. If that means eat outside when it’s cold, so be it, but eat food properly. But I know the world does not agree with me. I’ve had a small number of dining-in episodes, but I’m always going at 11:00 a.m. when no one else is there. There’s only a small number of places I’ll do even that. Show up at 11:00, order, no one else is there, leave by 11:20. That works in two or three places I go to. Jared Sylvester from Twitter asks, “What is the post-pandemic outlook for ethnic restaurants? Are any of your heuristics for finding good ones different now?”…

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