Reasearch the restaurant Din Tai Fung and analyze its values and features. Your goal should be to assess how it promotes specific values or attitudes (about food, morals, lifestyles, etc.) You will then use your observations as evidence in a thesis-driven, 4-5-page essay that argues how and why the restaurant promotes one of these values. I expect you to use a total of 2 outside sources to contextualize your argument. SOURCES PROVIDED. Does the restaurant value healthy eating—if so, what does its vision of health look like and how does its food fit into this vision? Does the restaurant promote any ethnic, regional, or national stereotypes—if so, does it use these stereotypes to celebrate certain identities or to deride them? Does it promote vegan or vegetarian options—if so, how and why? Does the restaurant cater to a specific demographic, and if so, which demographic and why? Does the restaurant promote particular habits, lifestyles, or politics? These questions may serve as guides as you shape your thesis, but you may also come up with interesting guiding questions of your own. This assignment does not ask you to explain why you like a restaurant or to explain the ways a restaurant fulfills its mission statement but rather to argue how and why a restaurant sells a particular type of experience or set of values along with its food.
