ANOTHER EFFECT OF DECLINING READERSHIP?

I'm all for recycling but I don't quite get the conceptual underpinning of restaurants using old or antique books--with tendency to the classics for upscale marketing?--for presenting their fare. There's a restaurant I know which uses open books for presenting appetizers -- it was a recipe book so when I was confronted by this practice, I thought, Huh, but soon forgot about it.  But more recently, William Faulkner's GO DOWN, MOSES was used for presenting our dinner bill--see pics below. I think it's disrespectful.

Per the third photo, were we supposed to write how much we enjoyed the shrimp scampi? Poor Faulkner.  Apologies for this impoverished culture.