Restaurants being rated with “Michelin stars” was created as a ploy to encourage people to buy cars and drive more to go on road trips to these restaurants so they’d wear through more tires and have to buy more
*Edited because I was a bit off base
That sounds like it could be plausible or could be a great story. Do you have a source?
Not quite middle class people, but otherwise correct:
In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars and, accordingly, car tyres, car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the Michelin Guide.
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Just because that is the origin, doesn't mean it was a scam then or now.
Restaurants being rated with “Michelin stars” was created as a ploy to encourage people to buy cars and drive more to go on road trips to these restaurants so they’d wear through more tires and have to buy more
*Edited because I was a bit off base
That sounds like it could be plausible or could be a great story. Do you have a source?
Not quite middle class people, but otherwise correct:
From Wikipedia
Thanks for the assist o7
Happy to help!
Thank you!
Just because that is the origin, doesn't mean it was a scam then or now.