I have a love for good homemade Italian and Southern cooking, both of which my wife does as good as any eatery. Neither of us care for the fancy "New Wave" shops out there....we prefer a place that can make good gnocchis or country fried steaks (or anything in a cast iron skillet)
That is good eating and usually much less expensive!
Never a good business decision to alienate 50% of your potential customers...
The author gets 45 free points for using “Defenestration” in a sentence. It means to throw someone out through a window.
Who knew we needed a word just for that?
Cooking is not terribly difficult.
No, but the cleaning and sanitation part seems to elude more and more restaurant operators. I patronize very few dining establishments, less and less lately. That and the Hep-A problem puts me off.
I used to deal with a lot of businesses. A few of them were restaurants.
Most were fairly clean but a few were dirty enough that I wondered how they had passed inspection.
I recall a Mexican restaurant in Dodge City, KS. It was run by a classy looking Hispanic lady. It may have been even cleaner in back than in front. Basically spotless.
Another one in Western Kansas that I would never have eaten there after being in back. It looked nice enough in the front dining area.
For the last 30 years, I have just about quit eating out because of my experiences.
4 chan?
The best part...
“Anxious to find out what food they served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, I clicked on the relevant site and was transported immediately to a discount motorcycle website entirely in Korean, or Japanese, or maybe Chinese.”
My favorite restaurant review story https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor
I’m a Yelper and I do my best to damage liberal places. Of course, Yelp is run by libtards so I always make sure to “mix” up my good reviews with the bad so they wont kill my account..
They had the best swiss cheese, mushroom and bacon omelette I have ever had. And I've had a lot of omelettes over the years.
Correct, however cleaning the range, cooking pots and pans, dinner plates and silverware, and the dining table is what we do not care for. Not to mention forays to the grocery store to buy food items. All that is avoided by going to a restaurant. That is why we eat out several times every week.
The “new wave” places are fine and have good food, but they’re generally small and the other problem is that they’ve gone to the new non-service model, which in my opinion makes them uncomfortable and overpriced. I would suspect that a lot of them will change back, since people honestly don’t want to line up and order at a counter in a decent restaurant. But fundamentally, this situation is all because different states and cities now require such an insane wage for tipped service personnel that no restaurant can afford them. Thank you Obama.
That said, the problem they’re talking about in this article is that some older restaurants are going down. But there are reasons for that, normally that the owners are older and the children don’t want to take it on, and the important fact that the streets or even the entire town has changed in the space of half a century. That’s to be expected.
But we’ve got to look at the insane regulatory mania for imposing totally ridiculous demands on small businesses, to the extent that they can’t even stay in business.
If you’re in the area, try Lorenzo’s in ft Pierce. Tiny place, good prices, great italian, true ny style pizza.
Higher chance at getting some disease a blessing in disguise.
Lunch out is between $8-12 and dinner runs between $14-30. Most food is flash frozen and nuked. That’s a lot of money for frozen food dinners. Now, add in the rest of the people in our family and a tip and you are quickly into three figures. That’s too much for most meals.
How do you make a small fortune?
Start with a large fortune and open a restaurant.
I find almost no restaurants can consistently keep high standards.
Service attitudes and responsibility in society at large are dropping. Good, stable help is very hard to find, especially if an owner is trying to keep prices at mid-range or below.
I always eat at the locally owned places and avoid the nat’l chains.
Guess I’ll be checking out their politics now too.
I hardly ever eat out. I like to cook, its not difficult, I can have more control over the amount of salt in my food (most people don’t realize how much salt is in restaurant food) and its a lot cheaper. I go to the best grocery stores and buy the top quality fresh produce, meat, bakery items, etc. Its still way cheaper.
The average American spends a bit over $3,000 per year at restaurants. I’d rather not spend it on that and instead buy nice things - like guns for example - with that same money.
I can name a large handful of eateries in my town that are packed with snooty, better than thou customers and staff. And guess what; their food is horrible, unless you’re in for humus covered kale.
There’s nothing better a good cafeteria with traditional food.