{"id":4666,"date":"2013-12-08T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2013-12-08T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:44:55","slug":"todays-vegas-pet-peeve-please-chefs-stop-touching-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/todays-vegas-pet-peeve-please-chefs-stop-touching-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Pet Peeve: Please, Chefs, Stop Touching Our Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>You see it happening everywhere, including on cooking shows and in restaurants up and down The Strip. Chefs, celebrity and otherwise, are touching our food. You might say they&rsquo;re &ldquo;hand-crafting&rdquo; it, but we just call it gross.<\/p>\n<p>When did food-touching by chefs get to be not only OK, but even touted as a selling point in restaurant advertising?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4667\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chef_touching_food.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-4667 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Chef touching food\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chef_touching_food.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Vegas restaurants should offer touched and untouched menus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We don&rsquo;t care how famous you are, or how French you are, or how award-winning you are, you&rsquo;re still putting your &ldquo;Chef of the Century&rdquo; bare hands on our food!<\/p>\n<p>Are you with us, or are you on board with this food-touching trend? Let&rsquo;s hear what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see it happening everywhere, including on cooking shows and in restaurants up and down The Strip. Chefs, celebrity and otherwise, are touching our food. You might say they&rsquo;re &ldquo;hand-crafting&rdquo; it, but we just call it gross. When did food-touching by chefs get to be not only OK, but even touted as a selling point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegasrestaurants","category-las-vegas-wtf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Las Vegas Pet Peeve: Please, Chefs, Stop Touching Our Food | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today&#039;s pet peeve is chefs touching our food.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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