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A 4 page paper on how restaurants around the world and through time have stood as status symbols for social interactions and interpersonal identity. Particularly addressed are celeb restaurants which provide their patrons with a various set of identities related to social status. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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385). She continues: "Restaurants in our society . . . seem to reinforce the impression that special-occasion meals are more often than not symbolic affirmations of relations of
power and obligations." (Coward 386) This is why celebrity restaurants proliferated in this decade. Although these same restaurants are experiencing a downswing at the moment, it should
have no long-term effect on the importance of restaurants and other settings to the status associated with them. Restaurants are and have always been status symbols.
Christian Espiritu, writing for the Filipino Reporter in 1996 proclaimed that a new "hot spot" cafe, called the "Fashion Cafe" was opening in New York.
The basis of his report was that the people the reader could observe eating at the restaurant (who the reader could rub shoulders with) included a list of celebs such
as Cindy Crawford and architectural designer Tonichi Mendoza. But it goes beyond mere celebrities. He writes: "To the cognoscenti, those people in the know, the cafe in
New York is the favorite hang-out of the young, the hip and those who are really with-it." (Espiritu PG). So, even if you go and dont run into
a celeb, you are still "hip," "young," and "with-it." (Espiritu PG). The Hard Rock Cafe just finished celebrating 25 years of popularity.
Although it is receiving a lot of competition from Planet Hollywood and other celeb hangouts, it is still a status symbol to be seen wearing a Hard Rock t-shirt or
ball cap. The importance of the clothing tie-in is that clothing is already an established status symbol. Wearing a piece clothing with the names of fashionable restaurants on
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