Right, but I just feel like the "everyone's a critic who can't hang when their mouth is on the line" is better targeted at the likes of the food critic? Like, it's hard to blame patrons who are ultimately kind of regular joes for being excited about what they're eating and liking food, especially if they generally try to see where the chef is coming from. And for the record I'm not denying that maybe you could put someone from the general foodie archetype in the room, but to make him specifically the worst person (bringing his date to die, etc) feels remarkably off in terms of the hierarchy of shitty people. It's almost like the writers knew that his own sin wrt the chef wasn't enough to die, so they needed to give people something else to latch onto to kill him off.