Many of the best restaurants we've dined at in San Francisco, Chicago, etc use a Prix-Fixe. It is very common in fine dining.
Same in NYC.
Ok so to be clear I'm not talking about a tasting menu or chef's table or "the best restaurants". There are many top restaurants that are not fine dining. I'm specifically talking about fine dining, because that's how Disney classify this restaurant. You've been to actual fine dining restaurants that flatly refuse to make substitutions, or don't allow you order an extra course, or side dish (for a cost)? You must pick 1 starter, 1 main and 1 desert with no flexibility? I'm not saying it doesn't exist - but this is not common practice because it simply is not fine dining. Out of interest, where have you seen this?
As a European, I don't confess to know the 'fine dining' scene in San Fran or Chicago. However, NYC I do quite well, and I never came across this. No-where in Europe would class this cattle approach as fine dining - the restaurant might try, but no one here that knows food would ever put it in that category. To be in the fine dining category, at a bare minimum it would have to be a "full-service restaurant" - There is nothing full service/fine dining about a completely inflexible and limited offering at a set price.
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