“Soup to Nuts: In the restaurant business, tattoos tell tales” (Oct. 8) was an odd story, wasting two full pages in the Food & Dining section, both condoning and encouraging this current fad in some of Portland’s latest hip establishments.
It was tasteless and unappetizing. I can’t believe that the owners of the six businesses mentioned in the story approve, but then “any publicity is good publicity.”
Restaurateurs should consider what we patrons prefer. I find large tattoos along with facial metal a big turnoff; I use my nose and tongue to help enjoy the food.
Shards of metal protruding from a server’s face and creatures crawling down arms draw attention to the server, and that is not why we choose to spend up to $100 per meal. When the server looks like a freak show escapee, I’m walking out.
Your writer claimed “there are lots of theories” as to the reason for all the tattoos, but never really made any clear except to state “some people gravitate toward restaurant work because they know” a tattoo is OK there. “In a fancy office? Not so much.” Sad but true.
David Alexander
Gorham
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