If I Ruled The World - Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner is an award-winning British journalist, broadcaster and writer, best known as the restaurant critic for the Observer

- Eva Mackevic

I would ban the serving of food on anything other than a plate.

It would be illegal to use slates, let alone dustbin lids or trowels or tiles, or God forbid, anyone would put a cocktail in a jam jar. Plates are brilliant, they’re really good at holding food and they’re much easier for front-of-house staff to pick up. If your food only looks impressive to you when you put it on a dustbin lid or hang it from a washing line, there’s something wrong with your food. We don’t need anything other than a nice piece of crockery. God save us from mini fryer baskets for chips. I hate them with a passion.

All waiters in restaurants would have to take your order with a notebook and a pen.