If they can turn off simulation (and presumably other parts of the knowledge) then that solves the mc's problem of being able to know what food will taste like before making it lol all that knowledge seems like it'd be useful to have in a life and death situation
I love Saizeriya. We have it in Singapore and it's a popular place for students because it's so cheap. When we visited Japan, of course we had to check it out. It was so much better and we ended up going back there to eat a 2nd time.
A girl liking the handsome/cool type? Common trait I've seen in shoujo school series. "Falling in love" is probably not the right phrasing though, I think it's more admiration