... the best answer I found was this: Restaurant sites are the product of restaurant culture. These nightmarish websites were spawned by restaurateurs who mistakenly believe they can control the online world the same way they lord over a restaurant.
via slate.com
Interesting analysis of unusable restaurant websites. There is some hope given in the final paragraphs - that the need to get websites to work on potential patrons mobile phones may be a force motivating more usable sites in future.
