Obscure Pasta Question

[dingdongyo]

Well. I'm not sure if it was worth starting an entire thread about, but I've got to know why this is.

I love Pasta, but in the past several years, it seems that at every restaurant only makes their pasta dishes out of Penne pasta. I mean, it was fun at first, but can't we have a little bit of variety out there?... or at least some regualar ole spaghetti noodles or something?

Why Penne? Does it keep better in a pot of water all day?

Thoughts?

a lot of restaurants also have lasagna and stuffed shells (i can make some effin mean stuffed shells). you could try that stuff.