Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/14/michelin-starred-inn-uses-mann.html
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How is this less weird?
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It isn’t in D.C. It’s in a small town roughly an hour and a half outside of D.C.
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It’s like a Museum of the Before Times, for our descendants to wonder at the people’s exposed faces and close proximity. 
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“I’ll have what he’s having.”
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Ah. That’s what struck me as odd about the article. Much less weird now 
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I ate there once, on a corporate dime, and can testify that that food is very very good, and dinner will run over $200/plate, probably more with alcohol. At those prices, I suspect they can afford to run at half capacity.
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Aw, the cities are so quiet now, the mannequins are wandering out of the Twilight Zone!
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Those seem to be some fancy duds they just had kicking around.
Totally unrelated note: I would love to take my wife there, and make them sit us at a table with a mannequin couple. It would make for some great dinner schtick.
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Apparently the mannequins are getting table service:
“According to Washingtonian, servers will be expected to interact with the mannequins, including speaking to them and pouring wine for them — likely not the vintages priced at several thousand dollars on the Inn’s wine list.” -WTOP
Careful the mannequins don’t stiff you on the tip!
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My first thought on seeing the headline: “this is straight out of the Twilight Zone”!
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Well, since retail is dead, we may as well recycle the mannequins. Fill the theaters, concert halls, stadiums…
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If I lived anywhere nearby, I would storm through the door at peak dinner hour, stride up to the most glamorous mannequin, shout “It’s over between us! OVER!” throw a glass of water in its face, and storm back out.
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Dinner and a show!
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Cynthia and Lester Gaba would feel right at home.
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I immediately thought of the “jackpot” as described in William Gibson’s “The Peripheral.”
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The ‘woman’ on the left is lvanka.
They won’t let you in if you don’t resemble a glamorous mannequin.
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