The Restaurant Files: What Really Happens Before Your Food Reaches the Table

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We eat out often. We order from restaurants. We admire beautifully plated food, complain about prices, compare ratings and wonder why something tastes so different from what we make at home.

But how much do we really know about what happens on the other side of the dining table?

This September, Petpuja is opening The Restaurant Files.

It isn't a restaurant-review series. There will be no star ratings and no lists of the "best" restaurants.

Instead, we are going behind the menu.

Why does restaurant paneer taste different?
Why do buffets make us eat more?
Does beautiful plating actually change how food tastes?
How do restaurants decide what a dish should cost?
Can online ratings really be trusted?

And what exactly happens inside a busy restaurant kitchen before that plate reaches your table?

Over the month, we'll look at restaurants through the lenses of food, science, psychology, business and good old common sense.

Some things may surprise you. Some may make you look at your next restaurant meal differently.

So pull up a chair.

The Restaurant Files begin in September on Petpuja.