I travel a lot for work. As such, I eat out a lot. As such such, I look at a lot of places’ menus without physically being there (since I don’t know the area, I don’t know where to eat, so I look at the reviews and images posted online).
A restaurant’s soup selection will likely not be the thing that decides if I eat there or somewhere else, but sometimes soup is the only side dish that sounds appetizing, and if I don’t know what kind of soup the restaurant serves I’ll probably just pick somewhere else.
Or in a similar vein, they list soup on their menu, but it’s only one soup and it’s “soup of the day”.
On one hand, you know they HAVE soup, which is a slight improvement over not listing any. But you still have no idea what it is.
Reminds me of a customer complaining, “no, I’ve had soup du jour before and this is not it!!”
Also from Dumb and Dumber:
“Excuse me, what’s the soupe du jour?”
“It’s the soup of the day.”
“Oh, that sounds good, I’ll have that.”
If they only serve a single type of soup per day but listed all of them on the menu, the staff would definitely have to deal with disgruntled customers who don’t understand why they can’t order the thing they’re reading off the menu.
tbh if the menu is online they can just specify what today’s soup is
Not really. At least, not in a way that doesn’t require constantly updating the website.
“Soups of the day” are generally an outlet for leftovers or a way to use up less desirable parts of other produce without just tossing them, so generally they’ll make whatever they have with what they got.
In theory, sure,
In reality, I promise you no overworked restaurant staff wants to bother with updating a website daily on the off-chance someone needs to know the soupe du jour. You’d probably just get the wrong information because no one updated it.
If you absolutely must know the soup availability, you can always just call the restaurant. The employees will make fun of you behind your back, but they’ll pretend to be glad to inform you!
And most of them are fucking PDF anyway, so another layer of editing and likely a layer removed from daily management
That’s when you gotta pick up the home and call but is it really worth the effort?
Nope!