Espacios del consumo alimentario

The little big rituals of eating out help to mark our daily routine, to define our way of socialising, to say who we are, what our propensities are (gustatory and otherwise). In restaurants, a plurality of actors are involved (maître. chef, waiters, customers), disparate and more or less articulated objects come into play (tables, chairs, cutlery, crockery, culinary equipment), the different spaces are easily recognisable (entrance, dining room, kitchen, paying area, wine cellar, possibly smoking room). The restaurant is, in other words, a complex device orchestrated to offer a gastronomic experience. This contribution focuses on this theme with the aim of offering an insight into how (and what) the restaurant space manages, more or less intentionally, to communicate.