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I think both restaurants in the US and US restaurant goers take themselves too seriously to get stuff like munchie boxes. This pic is from a fast casual ramen place that's in an absolutely terrible strip mall in a terrible location in a terrible little-mexico town. All that and they have suede backed barstools for fast casual ramen.
I think Americans go out to eat rarely enough that they expect every dining experience to be something special, and they're tipping too so they get to act entitled. I think for at least right now Americans are a little too self aware to large scale eat fried slop out of a cardboard box but with the way the economy is going it may become much more normalized as people drop their expectations.