Since I'm hungry I want to talk about restaurants for a second.
You can usually tell quality restaurants by a signature dish more than their napkins.
For example, Pho places have to have good Pho. Pho is a touch dish to make requiring lots of detail to assemble complex ingredients in the right proportions over many hours. Good places are famous, bad places die.
Around where I live the best Pho place is "Pho 75". However, eating there is like eating at a cheap cafeteria. There's almost no decoration, everybody eats at long, fold-up tables like you might see at a middle school. They don't really have much of a menu and it's printed as cheaply as possible and then laminated so they don't have to print more. Napkins are the $2/1000 type you get at institutions, the silverware is so cheap it's possibly dangerous, and the chopsticks and soup spoons are made of heavy grade, dishwasher safe plastic. There's almost no service from the staff, they get your order and come back to drop off soup.
There are fancier places, with better napkins and silveware, tableclothes and expensive statues of dragons and such in the area. There's a few places that try to make Pho hip and trendy with modern lighting and fancy, custom interior decorator designed decors and fancy napkins.
But Pho 75 regularly beats them all. The line at lunch is always out the door (even in frigid weather), usually giving you about 10-15 minutes to actually eat the steaming bowl of soup. Yet from appearances to new people, it's a dive.
Anybody who's asked says they go to Pho 75 instead of some other place because of the quality of the soup. Not because of the napkins.
You can usually tell quality restaurants by a signature dish more than their napkins.
For example, Pho places have to have good Pho. Pho is a touch dish to make requiring lots of detail to assemble complex ingredients in the right proportions over many hours. Good places are famous, bad places die.
Around where I live the best Pho place is "Pho 75". However, eating there is like eating at a cheap cafeteria. There's almost no decoration, everybody eats at long, fold-up tables like you might see at a middle school. They don't really have much of a menu and it's printed as cheaply as possible and then laminated so they don't have to print more. Napkins are the $2/1000 type you get at institutions, the silverware is so cheap it's possibly dangerous, and the chopsticks and soup spoons are made of heavy grade, dishwasher safe plastic. There's almost no service from the staff, they get your order and come back to drop off soup.
There are fancier places, with better napkins and silveware, tableclothes and expensive statues of dragons and such in the area. There's a few places that try to make Pho hip and trendy with modern lighting and fancy, custom interior decorator designed decors and fancy napkins.
But Pho 75 regularly beats them all. The line at lunch is always out the door (even in frigid weather), usually giving you about 10-15 minutes to actually eat the steaming bowl of soup. Yet from appearances to new people, it's a dive.
Anybody who's asked says they go to Pho 75 instead of some other place because of the quality of the soup. Not because of the napkins.