Just about the places we have eaten in over some 30 years who serve working people are extremely good at serving them their menu of the day within an hour. I am always impressed by those who can glide around a small restaurant seemingly calmly, but are actually working at a pace.
If they didn’t do that they wouldn’t get the custom. Some french may have two hours for lunch, but the manual workers who are the life blood of village restaurants only get an hour.
Well, here in Trivy, the workers are usually there first, but the builders always take two hours, the foresters just have their meal and go and the lorry drivers come and go.
We, who have our lunch in the restaurant side take our time.
I’ve not had any bad experiences.
Possibly, but have you also thought:
Music is no good nowadays
Everyone looks terrible
Fashion is ridiculous now
Nightclubs are no fun any more
Television is rubbish
What is TikTok?
Because maybe you are just getting old 
you’re probably right, pot kettle black.
You forgot to add:
People mutter and mumble instead of speaking clearly
Print is ridiculously small
HAHAHA actually I haven’t thought any of the things on my list or yours YET but my parents have said them.
No doubt soon I’ll be needing oldie specs and a hearing aid and possibly a zimmer frame too 
for the moment I can still do cartwheels and the splits but who knows what the future holds.
You are obviously still just a wee slip of a thing. I do need glasses and I swear my son mutters too much! We had a family zoom apero last night and my daughter was very amused that I couldn’t get my video working!! Grumpy old woman moment coming 
Other one repeated by elderly relatives, which probably also await us are
Never enough public toilets
Why do they make the buttons on … so fiddly
Chairs are too low these days
Oh dear - I think I am already saying quite a few of these… 
kids of today, don’t know they’re born.
I am really suffering with this!
How about the: such poor lighting these days nobody can read the menus properly
Or
Why do they play this terrible music. I can’t hear myself think
I find myself irritated by filming styles. Too much jumping about and crazy angles. Not like the good old days with David Attenborough talking straight to camera Bring back Valerie singleton !!!
And were we able to go to restaurants we could complain that the current trend to minimalism means that it’s like eating in an echo chamber!
However, sur terrace is just fine!
Ha ha, sooo true, try working behind the counter in a tabc with masks, screens and customers who mumble at the best of time!
Nor sure about France yet (have not really studied the labour relations here) - but in Germany it is the Unions that are strongly AGAINST opening on Saturday afternoons and Sundays and Bank Holidays…
If you cannot plan your shopping around closing times, you should perhaps get a bigger fridge, larder, storage and also improve time management.
Sometimes enforced leisure time is the only time off people get.
Great; if you’re lucky enough to have the space, get a bigger fridge (more electricity, more plastic, old fridge adding to waste needing to be treated) in order to get around the pointless ideology of disallowing willing workers from making a living on a Sunday.
Time management? Work all day Mon-Fri, want to see family in the evenings, dedicate Saturday to the kids’ activities…I have plaenty of time to manage on Sundays, but it seems others know better than me how I should be doing it.
What do you mean by ‘enforced leisure time’?
And me! I need reading glasses (and own about 6 pairs) but I have 2 issues - I either can’t find a pair (although just found a stash of 3 pairs that the man shape had ‘tidied’ into my bedside drawer) or I’m out and never think to take them with me! I think I need to accept I need them and start stashing them in the car / handbag etc!
How much time do you spend shopping! When working 6 days a week I managed perfectly well in odd moments here and there throughout the week. I certainly had no interest in shopping on a Sunday! In fact the last thing I wanted to do on my one day off.
And that is what enforced leisure time means, not being required to work 7 days and a day off a week being facilitated. I have certainly had bosses, and miserable pay packets, that would have meant 7 day a week work were it possible at that point.
For a family of four It takes a good part of a morning or afternoon…by the time I drive to the supermarket, shop, wait in the queue, get some petrol, drive home, unpack everything.
I don’t wish to go to the supermarket on a Sunday any more than I wish to go there at all, but my life would be easier if the state considered me grown-up enough to make that choice for myself.
There are already laws in France which guarantee minimum annual leave to workers; as for rest days, why force them to be on a Sunday when it would be so much simpler to stipulate one day off for every 6 worked (or a more generous variation on that theme)?