15
Apr
2026
The Big Occasions Are Getting Bigger, and Most Venues Aren't Ready
I had a genuinely poor Father’s Day lunch a couple of years ago. Not disastrous, just relentlessly average in a way that felt insulting given the occasion. A forty-minute wait for mains we’d pre-ordered. A manager who walked through the room twice without making eye contact with anyone. Dessert menus that arrived at two tables and were forgotten at four others, including ours. The food was fine when it turned up. The experience around it felt like the venue had sold 200 covers and hoped for the best.
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