Transparency Alleviates Anxiety in Restaurants


Skift Take

Comfort food needs to go beyond a warm dish of mac and cheese. Diners and travelers are demanding more from their fine dining and their fast food, and smart restaurants are responding.

Skift launched the latest edition of our magazine, Travel in an Age of Permanxiety, at Skift Global Forum in New York City in September. This article is part of our look into the current state of the traveler mindset through the lens of the pervasive state of anxiety felt worldwide. Download the full version of Skift’s Travel in an Age of Permanxiety magazine here. People everywhere need to eat. Red state, blue state, traveler, or local. Food is necessary to sustain life, but that doesn’t mean eating — or dining out— doesn’t come with its own particular anxieties. As well-known restaurant chains make the news with headlines of contamination, foodborne illness, or just plain grossness (i.e. the McDonald’s pink slime incident of several years ago), co