This oral history needs real interview material before it can be publication-ready. The brief explicitly requires verified excerpts and permission; inventing six guests, their remembered moments, or their disagreements would undermine the piece.
Please provide:
- Six repeat-guest interviews across two or three restaurants. Transcripts, recordings, or accurate interview notes are suitable. Each should begin with “What made you come back a third time?” and include neutral follow-ups such as “Can you describe a specific visit when that happened?”
- Publication permission for each guest. Include the approved name or pseudonym, attribution preferences, and any restrictions on identifying details.
- Basic reporting context. Restaurant names, interview dates, and enough visit history to establish that each participant is a repeat guest.
- Separately attributed owner comments, if included. These will be presented as owner interpretations—not explanations of what guests “really meant.”
- Accessible links or excerpts for the Resy and Toast 2026 Regulars Report and Orbit’s collaboration findings. The citation markers in the brief don’t provide source text I can verify here.
With those materials, the post can weave the six accounts into an 800–1,200-word thematic oral history: preserving conflicting preferences, distinguishing remembered experiences from broader claims about why restaurant regulars keep coming back, and closing with two service habits supported by the interviews—not a retention promise.
Please send the interview material and permission details first; no polished substitute can stand in for those six guests’ actual accounts.