{"product_id":"mise-02-the-restaurant-issue","title":"MISE 02: The Restaurant Issue (Pre-Order: Ships 8\/11\/26)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-orders are open. Ships Tuesday, August 11, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMISE 02: The Restaurant Issue is the second issue of MISE: On the Future of Food. It takes one industry — the restaurant business — and looks at it from fifteen years out, when the pressures shaping it today have either intensified, evolved, or broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe labor force that built American restaurants is shrinking, and in some places under active threat. Technology is moving fast on the parts of the kitchen it can automate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe climate is making ingredients more expensive and less reliable year by year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe economics that have always made restaurants precarious are getting harsher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in the middle of all of it sits a question nobody has cleanly answered: what is a restaurant for, in a society that can deliver a meal to any door in forty minutes and doesn't need to leave the house?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMISE 02 builds four distinct versions of the year 2040 to investigate. Each version is shaped by a different combination of economic stress, political decision, technology, and environmental pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach contains two pieces of original fiction paired with an analytical essay examining the forces driving that world. Some chapters celebrate what makes restaurants irreplaceable. Others examine what we lose when we stop trying to keep them alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeculative writing and full-page photographic illustration throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by Mike Lee. Published by The Future Market LLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MISE: On the Future of Food","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48613395267835,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/2487\/5771\/files\/01-cover-front.png?v=1775372414","url":"https:\/\/www.mise.market\/products\/mise-02-the-restaurant-issue","provider":"The Future Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}