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Restaurants live or die based on their ability to keep customers in the seats—and yet 46 percent of new customers to a Chuck E. Cheese’s pizza restaurant will never visit a Chuck E. Cheese’s again after their initial visit.8 Almost half of the new customers the restaurant worked so hard to acquire appear to dislike the experience

The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.

One restaurant that asked people to pay what they wanted for a meal found that people paid less than the restaurant would have charged normally. That might not sound good for the restaurant owner, but more people came to dine at the restaurant and almost no one paid nothing or very little. In total, the restaurant made more money.5 This relatively