Rather than fine dining, the show focuses on high-quality comfort food like yakitori, tonkatsu, and ramen [1.11].
Here is a breakdown of the subject for research purposes:
However, if you are looking for or a "solid" paper regarding this topic, the subject of study would be the TV series itself.

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