"At City Hall (a Tribeca restaurant that closed in 2015 due to rising New York labor costs), Larry and Jeff watch in hungry frustration as their meals sit ready on the pass. This is probably not an uncommon dining experience — hungry diners watching food sit for a minute or two while a server is busy in another part of the dining room. But diners would likely not know for certain that it’s their food or if another table ordered the same dish first. There is an invisible line of protocol and hygiene that separates restaurant guests from the kitchen. Picking up dishes waiting at the pass to be expedited and taking them to the table, as fictional Larry does, crosses that line. “This man is a hero,” Jeff tells their server after Larry helps himself to the food. “He just revolutionized the way restaurants work, my friend.” Larry’s behavior is classic disruptor mentality — circumvent someone’s job, or standards for labor and safety, and call it innovation. Fictional Larry’s actions could reasonably warrant a lifetime ban. Instead, it results in the angry, eavesdropping server snitching on Larry for gabbing during Ricky Gervais’s play. Later in the episode, Larry, having learned nothing, continues to take his own food from the restaurant’s kitchen." - Corey Mintz
