Restaurant critic outed by restaurant

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

i have worked long enough to know i'd rather own an olive garden than some gatronome place with 12 seats. make money money make money money money

isn't there an olive garden at times square? Would be interesting to see their revenue.

 

[mordecai]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

isn't there an olive garden at times square? .

oh nooo! spot is bl0wn

 

[Piobaire]

Can you get RANCH DRESSING on the side at the Olive Garden? Will they give you extra paper NAPKINS? Or a Coke TO GO?

To the OP, these guys probably just wrote their own fate. This will come back to bite them.

 

[Cary Grant]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

What's your point? Owning a Gap store would make you more profitable than owning a place that sold nothing but raw denim, but Gap still isn't better than Mauro's store.

Point of order: More profitable? Not necessarily... more cash? sure

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

To the OP, these guys probably just wrote their own fate. This will come back to bite them.

Yep. hard to imagine any of the big restaurant towns would hire them again.

 

[Trompe le Monde]

Originally Posted by robin

The Yelp backlash: http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-medicine...t_by=date_desc

meh, yelp is a social networking site masquerading as a review site... just another corner on the internet for foodtv-fiends to occupy

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Trompe le Monde

meh, yelp is a social networking site masquerading as a review site... just another corner on the internet for foodtv-fiends to occupy

Is your name a reference to The Pixies album?

 

[binge]

I'd love to eat at one of those Asian people doing white people food that serve food that only Asian people would eat.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by lee_44106

As much as Olive Garden is highly dismissed around this part, where everyone seem to only dine at 3-starred establishments, I've never seen an Olive Garden restaurant that's not constantly packed.

Maybe you're not an idiot, but that post makes you look like you lack fairly basic skills in logic.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by binge

I'd love to eat at one of those Asian people doing white people food that serve food that only Asian people would eat.

Sounds like you're describing Costco in Korea.

 

[blackjack]

Originally Posted by binge

I'd love to eat at one of those Asian people doing white people food that serve food that only Asian people would eat.

Sounds like a typical "Western breakfast" served at a Japanese business hotel or ryokan. Often, the eggs were fried up the night before (as other Japanese food was often prepared in the same manner) and served stone-cold in the morning. Mmmmmmmm.

 

[milosz]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

the food at red lobster is also very, very healthy for a chain.

Seriously? Everything I see on their menu is swimming in garlic butter (or garlic not-really-butter, I don't really know) or some kind of sauce/glaze that must be made of pure HFCS (ala that Jack Daniels bullshit at one of the other chains).

I guess if you ordered fish without any butter or sauce and had veggies it would be fine - but you could pull of that special order anywhere.

 

[Trompe le Monde]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Is your name a reference to The Pixies album?

yes

 

[Johdus Fanfoozal]

If you think this is bad, remember a few years back that a restaurant owner sued the Philadelphia Inquirer's food critic Craig LaBan so he could force him to reveal his identity in a taped deposition and eventually open court.

The suit claimed that LaBan's misidentified a "steak sandwich without bread" as a "strip steak" (which he described as "miserably tough and *****"). It argued that the mistake constituted libel because LaBan had "no personal knowledge of the quality of the Chops strip steak."


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/di...pagewanted=all

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by lee_44106

um, how about co-equals?

How about people who are also chefs, to use restaurant critics as an example.


Yes, the absence of personal incentives, interlocking personal relationships, and potential conflicts of interest would undoubtedly ensure integrity and reliability.