Boy, the HARD sell for specialty restaurants was more than annoying on our most recent Celebrity and HAL cruises. Servers in the MDR on both cruises said the cruise lines way over estimated the demand for the specialty restaurants, and under estimated the need for staff and space for the MDR. On our Celebrity cruise, they had staff from the specialty restaurants going table to table at the buffet lunch pitching the specialty restaurants, and by day 3 of the 7 day cruise, they were offering half off the normal fee to eat in all the specialty restaurants.