Before ‘Ratatouille,’ We Had the Rat Kitchen of ‘Muppets Take Manhattan’ | Eater

"Presented in the third Muppets movie, this modest diner is run by a harried older man and his kind daughter and staffed by a crew of short-order rats led by Rizzo. Customers complain about rats as waiters, so they are reassigned as cooks, producing comic yet surprisingly efficient scenes—rats serving fried eggs, forming an assembly line for pancakes, and even buttering griddles by skating on pats of butter. The sequence plays the gag about being barred by the Health Department while also underlining that kitchen work is labor: the rats work for tips and survival rather than artistic recognition, serving as a humorous reminder to respect everyone who brings food to a table." - Jaya Saxena