Remember the last time you tried to book an Italian restaurant and got offered a table at nine forty five on a Thursday? Arizona has places that solved this problem by simply refusing to participate.
No reservations, no waitlist apps, no polite phone calls three weeks out. Just a door, a line, and a rule that has not changed in decades.
This sounds wonderfully casual until you arrive at seven on a Friday and discover forty people who read the same advice you did. So the strategy shifts…