[benihana]

>Do you all just keep the system because it keeps so many people employed following the pointless bureaucracy of it all?

No, the main reason we keep it around is to give arrogant Europeans and Canadians something to feel superior about. It's not because in a nation with 300 million people in a space as vast as America, it's hard to get people to agree on how we should do things. Nope, it's cause we're idiots and we like inefficient things.