Chaos, while I disagree with you, the way you say things somehow makes whatever you say seem like the only thing that makes sense. Maybe that's the slave protocols you installed back when you made me your puppet talking though.
Restaurants have been around quite a while. Certainly longer than firearms, which were invented but suppressed by TLR. Then again, the progression for different societies is often radically different. Maybe in a world where some people can make high speed projectiles out of coins, creating a similar ability for the normals would take precedence over fine dining establishments. The commoners in Mistborn certainly had public dining, but that was more of a mess hall than a restaurant.
I don't know, I was just thinking that the societies themselves in Warbreaker seemed more advanced, again I have no real reason or idea why... Thats just how I felt haha. It does make sense the way you said it though.
You may have been noticing the nods Brandon was giving to Victorian-era England (esp. Oscar Wilde). I also remember some feminism, which is a rather recent development in our world. The societies Brandon creates may be purposely (I hope) anachronistic to remind us that the worlds we (Hoid
) are visiting are very different from the one we live in. I may be wrong! I'm improvising!