Restaurant failures

[mtbc]

A curious issue here with restaurants is that it is not uncommon for many items from the menu, perhaps most, to be unavailable. One discovers this only when ordering. Some chains do fine, others are reliably poor in this regard and I am learning simply to avoid them. An additional frustration is that, not only do they not mark what is no longer available, but interaction with the staff often fails to reveal the whole story: instead we have interactions like, sorry, only X and Y are available, what about Z?, sure, we have that.