Abolishing Restaurants?

A friend just shared a link to this provocative piece on abolishing restaurants.

I've not actually read it in full, so I'm basically just bookmarking it here, but it certainly looks interesting. I've never really seen such an argument made before, but it has parallels to arguments that might be made in other contexts.

For instance, in discussion of prostitution, there seems to be a difference between 'ordinary' sex - whether it be in a committed relationship or a one-night stand - and commercial sex. I've heard people make an analogy to cooking. Is there a similarly important difference between cooking for someone else as part of a caring (not necessarily romantic) relationship and cooking for them simply as part of some paid transaction?

Food for thought, perhaps.