A particular presentation is not important to me at all. I've watched cooking shows where they curl vegetables and drizzle the gravy like an art form . It looks like way too much trouble. For me, the essential is a clean plate and table.......and food that tastes good.
Preparation and cooking are absolutely a must for me to enjoy a meal. Presentation not so much as long as it doesn't look as though the food was just slopped on the plate floating in sauce or gravy.
Clean and cooked about it, fancy meal to me as a sharp clean knife, cheese and crackers with some milk fancy=costs more, most of my weekly lunches are from an ice chest sitting in a boat or on a pickup tail gate, not much importance here to me how served nor appearance of the dishes, paper plates or paper towels are just fine, next Tues night we are expecting close to 100 to eat here 1st time for that many, our cutlery is all plastic, paper plates and news paper for table cloths, all easy clean up, faster the better. Just thankful we can do it. figuring 250 plates total so many asked to bring them also all will be expected to bring food that do not bring extras or ice or drinks. We serve on a pool table with a shower curtain over it. Works great. We will have more than they will eat. No to answer OP topic not at all- NO.
No, the presentation has never been important to me. I grew up with Dagwood Bumstead. Nothing Fancy. A good sandwich will do, presented any way you choose.
Presentation might be important, depending on what's being served. Of course, a Cheeseburger Under Glass may be a bit ostentatious. Hal
I don't concern myself with fancy presentation so much, but I do like a balanced looking plate. I also like to always have something green on a plate of food. Just a quirk.
For myself, not so much but.... The axiom to live by in the restaurant business is that “people first eat with their eyes”, so presentation is an all important item but........ When restaurants go to such great lengths to make a plate look like it belongs in an art gallery then forget about the quality of the food I get a little ticked and............ When folks throw stupid stuff on my plate for garnish like kale, dyed sweet and sour apple rings or other fruits and weeds that are not actually complimentary to the palatability of the meal, it sorta aggravates me and.......... On the opposing side, when foods are so crammed together that one cannot distinguish one item from another then the whole experience is a useless endeavor just like all the conjunctions and dots I put at the rear of each sentence in this post. It may work and might serve a purpose but who the heck knows except for he or she who prepared the meal.