Twenty-five years ago my new boyfriend and I were busy working in entertainment production. We had crazy schedules for rehearsals and show shifts. Our paths were going in the same direction, but not often crossing to give us time to really know each other. One evening the stars aligned and we had a few hours around dinnertime to share a meal. Hooray! But as we drove from nearby restaurant to increasingly distant restaurant, we were shocked at the long waits and lines out the door on a weeknight. As we sat in his car outside a normally empty Applebee’s with an hour wait, we saw a couple walking past with…