/ck/ - Food & Cooking

These things.

>>16468935
It's a chain restaurant

>>16468935
The people that work there arent white

>>16468938
no that is soul

>>16468935
A/C vents nasty
Fruit flies near bar
Smell of old grease
Dirty bathroom
Greasy paper menus
No uniform for staff (this is more a yellow flag)
Hodgepodge of utensils and plateware.
Salt and pepper shakers that aren't full and clean
Server with nasty hygiene or dirty apron

>>16468935
> go to new locale pizzareia
>enter the doors
>immediadetly i am accustemmed by the stench of body odor
>greasy italians everys
>order a slice of peepporoni alfreda
>comes out with hairs all over it
>throw the slice onto the celing
>call those filthy people wops

>>16468935
>big laminated menu
especially if it's sticky

>>16468935
Skinny Female cook

>>16468935
my dad owned and operated 5 restaurants from 1970 to 2010
AMA

>>16468985
>No uniform for staff (this is more a yellow flag)
Green flag if business casual polo+slacks, having a uniform is a red flag if it's too formal for the establishment, ie ties at a burger place.

>>16469044
did he bang the waitresses

>>16469006
>peepporoni alfreda
what did it mean by this??rrdhw

>>16469044
how did he manage to hide the cameras in the washrooms so well?

>>16469051
yes, several of them
in high school i tried to get a cashier to play D&D with me and he bought me condoms

>>16469058
air vents

>>16469060
are you eskimo brothers with your dad?

Non-regional macro lager on tap
Server doesn't ask how you want your burger cooked
Salt and Pepper shakers on table without you having to ask
Cheap silverware
Country music playing
Menu more than 3 pages (including drinks)

>>16468935
When the pretty girl looks at me funny because my Mom orders for me.

>>16469087
>Country music playing
this implies restaurants in the south are bad, which is absolutely untrue.

>>16468935
Doesn't have a strip club.

>I’ll have the fish and chips
>ok, would you like chips or fries
>mfw

The sound of birthday clapping

>>16469082
no

>>16468935
When you go in at 7 pm on a Friday and there is only a few tables full. I will walk right out if I see that. Busy does not indicate good but not busy only means bad things.

>>16469099
any music playing, i walk out

>>16469137
The crowd has to start somewhere. You are effectively causing small business restaurants to fail. Fuck you.

>>16469141
based

>>16468935
>What are /ck/s personal restaurant red flags?

If there are orcs in the place

>>16469198
so every restuarant in muttmerica?

>>16469201
blacks arent everywhere in america, despite what the television shows you.

>>16469142
maybe they shouldn't be fucking unpopular then retard

>>16469099
Eh, maybe. But in the rest of the country it's a sign of low quality, low effort, utilitarian, "you think it's bland? suck it up snowflake! my 5 year old eats this everyday and doesn't complain" kind of attitude.

>>16469142
That "somewhere" is 5-6pm. If it's already 7 and business is that slow, something is fundamentally wrong with the restaurant.

>>16469262
>>16469287
Go back to the 4 other mcdonalds threads

>>16469287
This. There's typically a 5pm rush and a 7pm rush. It can start earlier, but if you aren't busy by 5:30 you know it's probably going to be a slow night, and you might just get a small, 7pm push. We've kind of been doing this lately, which sucks, because you want to send people home, but still might get hit. I don't know if it's the heat, people finally being able to travel, or people staying home again because idiots aren't getting vaccinated, but business has been really unpredictable this entire month.

If they’re out of/don’t do more than 2 things on the menu anymore. Huge red flag. It’s a sign of horrible management and if they’re not keeping up with ordering or updating the menu, guaranteed there’s a lot more they’re not keeping up with (hygienic practices being a big one).

T. Worked in a place like that.

>>16469323
Don’t do anymore/discontinued*

>>16469044
Has he ever caught up with all the invoices he hid?

>>16469339
idk hes been retired and moved to the beach for like a decade

>>16469339
he did hire a bunch of mexican dishwashers

>>16469287
just because a restaurant is in a different time zone doesnt mean theres something wrong with it

>>16468935
overtly long menus are often a bad sign

>>16469044
how many alaskan pipelines did he serve?

>>16468938
that's how you know a place is good

>>16468935
Link or patty?

Sysco and/or some other big name food distribution company like that.
I get that restaurants need to get their food, especially in bulk but some of these services seem to distribute already made foods that the restaurant just needs to thaw and reheat. I've checked out places that are lower-end and use Sysco for instance and I've noticed that certain menu items just taste the same across various establishments.
I guess it's more of a red-flag for common items though, since I have gone to places that use Sysco or equivalent and they still had some unique/specials that felt a lot more scratch made

>>16469142
you need to go back

>they use bugs as an ingredient
Sorry, I'm not spending $1,000 on a four star French restaurant so you can sprinkle my salad with fucking ants.

>it's a Mexican restaurant
>it's an Indian restaurant

>>16471446
Sysco provides food for prisons. You're telling me restaurants use that shit? People pay for prison food?

>>16469087
>country music
>menu more than 3 pages

it's ok, anon, you can say you don't like diners

>>16468935
>Any restaurant where a flatbread is any more than $12, if intended for only one person
>Pepsi Products™ instead of good, godly Coke Products™
>small, specialized menus (higher prices, am poorfag)
>staff isn't paid well

>>16469087
>Non-regional macro lager on tap
Retard

if they have any mexicans working there. what they usually do is hire white people to wait tables and be the maitre d and in the back it's just nothing but puerto ricans and mexicans cooking "authentic" french food.

>>16468935
Waitress with a lazy eye.

>>16472044
thats not a lazy eye that's an algorithm artifact.

>>16471446
Sysco is a source for raw ingredients as well as ready made meals. The pizza place I live near gets 50lb bags of flour and cases of tomato cans delivered from Sysco weekly

>>16468938
S O V L
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>>16468935
Dirty bathrooms mean dirty kitchens.

>>16472044
I once banged a waitress with a lazy eye and huge buck teeth. Ugly as fuck, but I've got a thing for ugly chicks. Made me diamonds, came buckets.

>>16468935
>floors with piles of dust in corners
>handwritten signs encouraging tipping to compensate for shitty wages
>assorted flyers taped inside front window from political events that transpired months ago.
>absurdly large menu with far too many similar dishes

Labeling anything as "authentic"

>>16469315
Same. Our Saturday nights are dogshit right now. The only thing saving the weekends is brunch which has exploded this month.

>>16472418
Never worked in a restaurant, is brunch as bad to work at as it seems?

>>16472230
You are doing the rest of us a favor anon. Thank you for your service. The one at my local restaurant has a lazy eye, buck teeth, bad skin, 3 kids with different dads, AND goes about 5'2, 270lbs. I keyed her car once. She shouldn't have over served me then cut me off

>>16472418
We did brunch for awhile before everything got shut down and I fucking hated it. Now we don't even open until 3.

>>16472426
I hate it. I’m not a morning person, brunch eaters are picky, it’s a messy service. Plus if I’m actually on the line holding a station it means one of my cooks has screwed me over and I probably have to hire a new brunch cook.

>>16472453
I cut it for about two months because I could not find anyone competent to work it. We only do it on weekends anyway.

>>16468935
A greasy employee stood in the doorway smoking a cigarette and talking on his phone.

>>16472216
>Dirty bathrooms mean dirty kitchens
No, it doesn't. The people cleaning the kitchen are not the same people cleaning the bathroom. They're not even usually being managed by the same people.

No smell of food

No locals eating at noon

No locals working (can't be held accountable for a lousy job)

Buzzwords on the menu: tajine, gamba, scampi, serrano

English vocabulary on the menu or in the restaurant name.

Olive oil with garlic on the table.

Dutch waiters. Especially in Venice.

Anything worn, unclean.

>>16468935
Blacks

>>16471799
D-do think that "macro" implies nationwide distribution?

The restaurant bathroom has only two toilets, one for men and one for women, with a sink in the middle.

>>16471526
>>16471446

Sysco distributes literally anything - raw or pre-made. I run a restaurant and literally all I buy from Sysco is some raw ingredients and paper products. I source most locally or from other bumfuck distributors who have no choice but to undercut the big guys.

>>16471446
If you see this, RUN

>>16472626
same


also fuck the captcha

>>16469087
>Salt and Pepper shakers on table without you having to ask
Just tell us you have autism. It's ok anon.

>>16472723
How about,
>cooks aren't tasting the food before they send it out
Is that better? You shouldn't have to be adding more salt at the table.

>>16469142
It starts with good recipes, fresh locally sourced produce and word of mouth.
Anyone can open a Sysco restaurant.

>>16472753
Did you know different people have different tastes?

>>16472758
Yes, some people have bad taste and some people have functioning palates.

>>16472657
There was an op-ed by some chef 5 or 6 years ago about how too many restaurants are relying on pre-made stock base and similar things and somehow /ck/ - which generally doesn't know how to cook or how restaurants operate - turned that into, "Sysco only sells pre-made microwave food", not understanding that pretty much everyone uses big distributors, even if just for a few raw ingredients and sundry items.

>>16472763
So you do have autism?

>>16472788
Do you have dementia and failing tastebuds? Because the only people who add extra salt to their food at the table are either in their 80's, or eating at a place that doesn't know how to season their food.

>>16468935
>What are /ck/s personal restaurant red flags?
Be me, walk in the door, and if I smell skunky beer soaking some bar mat and stinking up the place, I just walk out.
Many times upon arrival from my car, I might go prefer to upfront use the restroom and wash up my hands, before sitting down comfy in a booth, but if the bathroom smells or any stall is out of order and not labelled as such, then ugh, I might just assume they don't clean at all or ever walk in there to make sure it's safe. I might even assume lack of paper towels means every employee and customer is touching that exit door handle bare-handed, and then the back of their chair or other places all over the restaurant. Nasty.
Flies inside the restaurant, even just one. Something is wrong. They are propping unscreened open doors at the kitchen, flies are coming off rotting food in dumpsters or animal droppings nearby, or they are leaving garbage in bags to the point that entire maggot-fly cycles can be completed, aka too long.
If the floors are slippery, actually oily, in a restaurant with a fried food theme, like chicken, then i know the entire place was mopped without a single rinse or by zone. A person went quickly once through the kitchen then a cursory trip through the restaurant or even used the same dirty grease logged mop as yesterday. This means there is zero employee safety training or care. All of these care issues translate to kitchen safety, cross-contamination between diners with TB, hepatitus, norovirus, or whatever fecal matter they carried out of the bathroom all day.

>>16469315
>idiots aren’t getting vaccinated
Brainlet detected

>>16472806
It's a thing that's currently happening. Do you live under a rock?

>>16472811
>do you live under a rock?

>>16472631
Coupled with "non-regional" then yes that's what is implied.

>>16473326
He was trying to say that there's no such thing as regional macro beers, which is just wrong.

>>16472763
>Yes, some people have bad taste and some people have functioning palates.
Gut microbiome plays a significant role in what tastes a person enjoys. You're a faggot snob and should hang yourself to the applause of everyone who's had the misfortuna of encountering you.

>>16473363
If you have some kind of stomach bug that affects how you taste salt that's a you problem, and you're not normal.

>>16468938
You speak the truth anon, this is the equivalent of having a really nice home with a bunch of shitty plastic toys strewn about. We do it for the kids but it ruins the atmosphere and we should really just teach them better or give them wooden mugs.

>>16469066
I always wave at the airvents in restaurants with unisex bathrooms.

>>16472796
>t. germaphobe

>>16472811
Ignore the trolls anon, they are stupid and are angry at everyone and everything because they cannot fix the own problems in life, so they become the problem in everyone else's.

>>16473370
>If you have some kind of stomach bug
Stopped reading. You're either a troll or a moron with no knowledge of what you're talking about, or both.

>>16473673
Gut flora isn't going to affect how you taste salt, anon. If anyone is trolling it's you.

>>16468935

>>16468935
empty parking lot during lunch or dinner

>>16473698
Sysco actually delivers fresh produce as well nowadays. They've come a long way from their fucking "HEY GUYS, CAN YOU PUT OUR SHITTY YAM FRIES ON YOUR MENU?" days.

>>16468935
Loud urban music blasting from the kitchen.

1- glass stained with lipstick
2- staff is rude and slackers
3- flies everywhere
4- kitchen is too small and dense
5- floor has visible grease marks in it
6- place full of smoke
7- drinks are hot/room temperature

>>16468935
sticky mats, or table cloths or menus,
dirty, oily utensils
spanish from the kitchen

>>16469006
>and everyone clapped

>>16469315
Lmao vaccine cuck

>>16468938
Fucking filtered you faggot, it must hurt to be so tasteless and so retarded

>>16472034
Retard. Every restaurant has Mexicans, Pablo can cook.

I watched a guy near me dump a bunch of salt on his food then complain to the waitress that the cook made his food too salty.

>>16474730
Pablo just works for low wages more like and doesn’t care about labor laws

>walk into small chinese food place
>it also serves pizza and fried chicken and donuts

like I get that they probably already had the oil and breading for the chicken, but pizza and donuts too just tells me they're trying too hard to be everything. they probably have 2 good things on the menu and even then its debatable.

>>16474868
I'd have called him a cunt and told the waitress what he did, and then if he arc'd up I'd have clonked him on the head with a beer bottle.

>>16468935
Having more than 20 meals on the menu.

>Soft drinks on the menu

>>16473677
>continuing to prove your ignorance by spouting garbage
You're just embarrassing yourself at this point.

>>16474126
>spanish from the kitchen
That's 95% of any food serving establishment. If you aren't hearing Spanish then the spics were just told to stop yelling all the time.

>>16475353
show me one that doesnt bro

>>16469111
Chips have a different regional meaning in certain places.
Fish and chips are actually typically chips and what Americans could call fries. Meanwhile to Americans the default for chips to us would be some kind of potato chip. No idea if it's the same anywhere else but they just want to make sure you're getting what you want.

>>16475618
British chips are more like steak fries. Very thick. Crisps are American chips.

In Australia there's just chips. Hot chips are fries, cold chips are crisps. You can normally assume which you're likely to get depending on the context.

>>16472513
the people cooking use the restrooms you dumb fucking retard. if the cooks piss and shit indiscriminately like an ironic pepe post and make a messy restroom, they also probably have a disgusting kitchen. kys

>>16475669
Did this actually seem logical in your head before you posted it out?

>>16475353
do you expect them too just serve vodka too minors? fucking retards I swear to god I hate this fucking board

>>16475669
>kys
Oh boi can i? :D

>>16475685
>uses wrong to
>calling others retarded
Toppu kekku

>>16471786
MMMust... DDrink... BBRand!

>>16471446
All college food is sysco and its mostly disgusting

Having a large menu. Only poor people go to those. 5 items or less is the ideal menu size.

>>16476929
>5 items or less
Jesus

>>16468935
large menu

9/10 times it's shit.

>>16471526
Hi are you new to food? Did you know National chains have national ingredient sources and national prepped food distribution? Frozen food is sold everywhere to everyone. It’s amazing that you thought all food was made fresh just for you lmao. You fucking idiot.

>>16469111
Wander far from your bleak island, Ol Chap?

>>16469198
every restaurant in the globohomo states

>>16472230
Childhood is dating beautiful women
Adulthood is smashing ugly ogres

>>16472501
Well who the fuck wants to work on a Saturday and Sunday? No one you dumb asshole.

>>16472786
Don’t argue with retards. That’s stooping to their level. They think they can get every single ingredient locally when they don’t even do the same. A grocery store should be cheating by their standards but you know they go.

>>16472793
Is your name Karen? Because god damn that’s fucking retarded. You order food to your liking at a restaurant. Expecting someone you’ve never met to make food exactly how you want it is retarded behavior.

>>16476938
It’s called specializing. You’d know about it if you were worth a damn you lazy fuck.

>>16477005
Projecting so aggressively shows a weak character on your part.

>>16472788
Yes, he is definitely autistic.

>>16472793
This is the single most retarded post I have ever seen in my entire life.

Kosher

>>16475685
>not serving vodka to minors
Enjoy watching jamal fuck your wife

>>16469006
>accustemmed

>>16475669
>>16475710
KYS?
Kiss your sister?

patrons say they have a great happy hour

>>16471446
Sure GFS and Sysco have these products but they also have lots of fresh ingredients. I can tell you don't work in the industry because this is a retarded consoomer take.

>>16469006
>That grammar, syntax and spelling.
The fuck are you, Polish? Is this the start of a new Pollack joke after all this time?

"So this Pollack walks into a Wop shop and he says..."

>>16475685
>Going to places that allow children

No. UNLESS the parent signs a binding contract that if their kid acts like a little cunt they will slap it. Nothing more beautiful than the sound of someone hitting their disruptive child.

>>16469087
>doesn't ask how you want your burger cooked

This is a green green flag. Because a good restaurant knows I want it cooked medium, perfectly and easily done after years of practice.

>>16468985
>Fruit flies near bar
impossible to get rid of fruit flies. Unless you pay some asshole weekly you're gonna have them if theres moisture, sugar and and kind open pipes

>>16471430
Do restaurants sell sausage patties? I thought that was a fast-food breakfast thing. Imagine ordering a pasta dish with italian sausage and you get a sausage patty. That's some dine-and-dash shit.

>>16472796
It sounds like you're so autistic that you should just cook for yourself.

>>16469130
do you like to suck your dad's dick? does your dad like to suck yours?

>it's a 'Japanese' restaurant with even 1 staff member who is Korean, Chinese, Malay, etc.
ONLY trust Japanese and local Whites

The biggest red flag for decent restaurants is if they call their toast bread "Crouton", it's a sure sign of the restaurant being a place that values "reputation" over making good food.

>>16477759
This. Recently went to a place that asked if you wanted your burger "pink or not pink". I said pink and got a beautiful medium rare. Which was refreshing after previously going to 2 different places with "burger" in their name and couldn't fucking cook to order.

>>16475019
Aussies are built different

If it has the words "kitchen" or "table" in the name

>dessert menu is just chocolate monstrosities with dangerous names

>>16468938
not entirely true

>chalkboard out front with witty phrase
Not going inside

>>16475669
Kitchen staff arent going to use their bathroom break to clean a restroom in the front of the house. Thats retarded dude. And in every kitchen Ive worked in that had restroom in the back, the reatrooms are always immaculate. If there are five people cooking, prepping, or doing dishes and you decide to piss all over the seat or some other shit, youre going to get called out on it.

>>16469315
>because idiots aren't getting vaccinated
Lol. The CDC and the White House said your non-FDA approved vaccine doesnt work. Good job lab rat

>>16468935
I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant

>>16478087
>The Kitchen Table
good name for a restaurant, might start one up

>>16469111
This happened to me once when I was in the US, I got a bag of lays with my fish and chips, what a crazy place. They also gave me tea with ice in it when I just asked for 'tea'.

>>16478211
Lol. The entire right wing strategy at this point is voter suppression, except they realized that the only people dying are their own constituents, so now they're all pressing them to get the vaccine. You T_D crossposters are so fucking cringe; unironically just go back to /pol/.

The pho place everyone at my old job went to had rats running around, was shut down 3 times for health violations, and you couldn't see through their fish tank the water was so murky. Yet they swore it was the best. Those are all red flags for me so I didn't eat there.

>>16471786
>staff isn't paid well

Tell those liberal arts majors to get a better job. I don't tip, ever.

>>16468938
shit taste / 10

>>16472230
based

>>16478342
Covid is a hoax

>>16478451
>covid is a hoax
And you're still a virgin because of a Jewish conspiracy to make people with sexy holes hate bigots. It's all so tiresome.

>>16468935
If they serve "country fried steak" and not chicken fried steak

>>16478484
I'm not a virgin. I also don't measure my worth based on my ability to stick my dick in a woman's holes. That's what women do.

>>16478569
Cracker Barrel?

>>16478589
I just looked up their menu and they say its actual steak. I was thinking more like IHOP where it's a processed beef patty

>>16478211
Having trouble finding a source on this, can you help me out?

>>16478484
>tfw I trained my first and only gf to be a racist

>>16478681
>and only

>>16478685
i only have one pecker m8 why do i need more holes for it?

>>16472608
>scampi
How is that a buzzword?

>>16478604
The vaccine definitely works, and by "works" I mean "will kill all who take it"

>>16468935
I don't eat out anymore. Can't trust anywhere.

>>16478681
how did you do it anon, wasn't she already racist?

>>16476946
ok boomer

>>16478604
Combination of infromation from White House press conferences over time. We stayed indoors, wore the masks, met Joe Biden's July 4th vaccine goal (just a couple weeks late), and subjected millions of healthy Americans to a variety of non-FDA approved vaccines. Now, we are being told that vaccinated people can still get sick in "break through cases", already vaccinated people are going to need booster shots, and COVID cases are on the rise again so the government is considering another lockdown. If the vaccines worked, why is the CDC telling vaccinated individuals to wear masks again? Two weeks ago vaccinated individuals didnt need masks. All this shit is just being made up on the fly. There isnt one day where all of that was said, but if I had gotten a vaccine I would be pretty upset. I did everything I was asked to do during the lockdown because I wanted to be a good neighbor, but Im not being a lab rat.

>>16478211
Still better than not getting it numbnuts. Also, stop derailing threads.

>>16478342
>The entire right wing strategy at this point is voter suppression
CNN parrot, stopped reading, opinion worthless.

>menu doesnt change seasonally
>>16478250
dibs on The Table Kitchen

>>16468935
Just look at the menu, 95% of places serve the same basic bitch shit. You can see if the chef actually has any sense of taste.

>>16473986
>1- glass stained with lipstick
I have never had a "clean" glass given to me with any sort of marks on it, have I not been looking hard enough or do you go to restaurants that are that shitty?

>>16475353
>>16475541
nta but I went to a fancy restaurant the other day and the only drinks they actually listed were wines & cocktails, they had soda upon request though

dust on the ceiling fans, ground, ect. any bad odor of grease or oil that you can smell front of house

>>16468935
There's some autist sitting by himself phoneposting about deenz.

>>16480068
100% a green flag
make sure you buy the deenzposter a dessert

>>16468938
Filtered by a cup

gigantic menu is the main one that i look for

>>16476946
you go to restaurants to eat fresh food, locally grown, catch of the day, fresh. If I wanted frozen I'd buy a tv dinner and microwave it myself. I don't put on clothes, drive out to a restaurant, and pay $40 plus tip for frozen Sysco crap, and neither should anyone else with an above room temperature IQ.

>waitresses look too slutty (any part of ass uncovered, visible/poky nips)
>waitresses aren't slutty enough (full shirt and pants deal)
>menu needs more than the front and back of 1 big piece of paper
>menu has a challenge of any sort

>>16481687
>he tips

>>16481737
>with a rip

>>16479210
I got mine months ago and haven't died yet. Who do I send my complaints to? I am tired of this gay ass earth.

>>16479210
Ah sweet, so I have a safety net for the record of my death to say "vaccine" was the cause, not "autoerotic asphyxiation."

>>16472626
CANADIAN FOUR TOP WALK IN

>>16468938
Ask me how I know you eat awful overpriced faggot food.

>>16468938
I worked at a place with these, and I would never eat there unless I cooked it myself so it checks out. The small fridges by the grill station just barely functioned and kept the burger patties, wings, and philly meat at unsafe temps, the fry oil would sometimes literally go a month without being changed, the deli slicer used to cut onions, cheese, and ham almost never got cleaned, and the place was just generally nasty. I'm still amazed it somehow passed health inspections and my time there is the primary reason I almost never eat out anymore. And when I do, I never eat deep-fried anything.

>>16482595
That's surprising it would pass health inspections. Where I am they check fridge temperatures with their own equipment and your log, if you don't update the log twice a day or they were above what's safe the inspectors will give you a warning, and if your log isn't filled out or is above the safe level the 2nd time you'd get shut down until it was fixed.

It's in America.

Schnitzel "Wiener Art"

Restaurants that have a small shitty bar area where the waitress is also the bartender. You know they're going to spend 90% of the time at the bar because they're getting 2 dollar tips every few minutes for doing a minimal amount of work.

Places where the waitress takes your order and the bus boy is the one that brings your order out and refills your water. Obvious sign of poor management letting these cunts go on 40 cigarette breaks and eat up tips while Hector working minimum wage does all the work.

>>16472044
As long as the rest isn't lazy I don't mind it.

I did have a bad experience at Wendy's once because an employee with a lazy eye got the sugarfree iced tea confused with the regular.

>>16471446
You're retarded. Sysco has several tiers of food. If all they're serving is frozen fryer food then you know what you're getting into anyways. They're just a distribution company.

>>16469042
Based and possibly architect pilled.

I'm a regular at a bar that didn't have a functioning soap dispenser for 4 months while also having a buffet style taco night every week. Everyone always wondered why I stuck to bottled drinks and never got tacos.

>>16481687
I guarantee you the catch of the day you've eaten 100 times is just whatever sysco shit they needed to use up to clear space or was about to expire..

>>16472230
We have the same tastes honestly

>>16468935
If the meny is in terrible state, and you feel dirty just touching it. It's because that's such an easy low-cost thing to ensure is in decent shape that if they refuse to invest a little in that then I can be sure the hygiene in the back areas is bound to be abysmal.

Ethnic restaurant but people of that ethnicity not eating there

>>16481716
>doesn’t like qt’s or word searches on the menu
Toll booth worker detected

>>16469049
ties at a burger place sounds fun

>>16471479
can someone post the bug copypasta

>>16469323
Shit, this is actually a really good one.

I go to a specific mexican restaurant because they treat me with disdain because I'm white. I have to speak broken spanish to order. I'm in texas so theres mexican places everywhere but this is the best one. Damn I think im about to go there now

>>16469287
Where are you? Where I am, people who go to restaurants don't even get out of work until 5:30 if they're low-level, and 7 or later if they're high-level. Making a reservation before 8 is weird.

>>16472448
How do you know that much about a loser's personal life at a random restaurant in your town

>>16469142
Just eat at a new place until it gains notoriety and the chefs are finally forced to make good food!!!! Why are you so unfair - ?!

Or

Place has food good enough out the gate to be packed on a Friday at 7 within a few weeks of opening. The money will go where the good product is.

>>16468935
Niggers in the kitchen

>>16469006
Someone vocaroo this shit- I can't because I have a hormone deficiency and a deviated septum.

>>16472358
this is a good one

>>16471786
>Enter restaurant
>Ask waitress point blank how much she makes while she tries to seat me
>She gets 8/hr but is supplimented back up to min. wage if she fails to make enough in tips
>Tell her that's bull shit and to unionize
>Turn 360 degrees and walk away

>>16472044
When I was a kid there was a gross old lady with a lazy eye who worked at subway- I'd walk a mile to subway to buy myself a tasty foot long, see her, and walk home empty handed, pissed, and hungry because I found her so disgusting.

Italian restaurant.
They always fucking suck.

>>16486303
For me it's just a matter of them being a rip off. Pasta is very filling and easy to make at home but they want like $17.95 for that shit with their greasy HFCS premade sauce thrown on top

>>16486326
I've had lasagna soup once and at that point I've just given up yet whenever I got out with family they always want to go to italian places and I'm always disappointed with crappy meals I could do better.

>>16468938
pic is you

>>16468935
>tables/chairs way too close to each other
>no dividers between tables so you can see/hear the faggots next to you
>unfinished warehouse look
>pretentious "trying to be a 5 star michelin french restaurant" look
>restaurant is quiet as a library, no noise of drinking, laughter and people having a good time
>wait staff checking up on you every 5 minutes who wont fuck off and leave you alone (we'll call YOU when we want you)
>no button on the table to call wait staff, so you have to do that awkward raised hand make eye contact shit
>no $3 unlimited non-alcohol drink bar
>beers cost more than $3 or $4
>the nachos are intended to feed 16 people instead of a reasonable serving, like for 1 or 2 people
>menu is all text with no pictures
>prices on the menu are just digits (ie: 22) instead of ($22)
>price is more than $5 for literally anything on the menu. The occasional fancy item up to $10 might be excused but aint no fukken cunt paying $15 for a plate of fries

I dunno if it's just cuz I lived in Japan too long or not, but they really perfected the dining experience. Western restaurants are literally decades behind.

>there are black people in the kitchen when it's not a southern comfort food place
Out the door I go.

>>16472513
If a restaurant doesn't care about maintaining an area that they can't hide, imagine the vile filth in an area where customers aren't allowed

> Mexican restaurant
> The salsa sucks

>>16486388
I know this is mostly a shitpost but I always wanted to design a restaurant front end like I've seen in Japan with the excellent menus and control over when servers are notified and all that shit. I don't pretend I'd be able to run a whole restaurant it's a terrible business. But having an autist compatible and organized front end would be cool and it's a place I'd want to go.

Know exactly what you're getting, only have to talk to wait staff when necessary, and no tipping. Maybe it would attract other people

>>16486461
If they don't have a greenhouse for fresh tomatoes year round for their salsa they're not even trying

>>16486485
yeah it was seriously a personal pet peeve when I went to the US and Canada after living in Japan for so long.
Every 2 fucking minutes
"HAY IS YOUR FOOD OK"
"CAN I GET YOU ANYTHING?"
"NEED SOME MORE WATER?"
NO
FUCK OFF
I'LL CALL YOU WHEN I WANT YOU

The fucking look on their faces one time when I asked for the manager and told him that I wasn't tipping because his wait staff were annoying.
It's like he'd watched the fucking planes crash into the Twin Towers all over again as someone set fire to the American Flag.

>>16486412
You realize bathrooms have a lot more foot traffic and a lot more people using them than the comparatively few staff restaurants have. Not even factoring in the simple issue of customers being fucking pigs more often than not.

However, if it's mess that has obviously been there since before opening hours, get the fuck out of there.

>>16486485
Chinese Yum Cha style, where you notify the staff simply by putting your teapot's lid at an angle that it needs to be refilled, or positioning your chopsticks to have them bring the selection back around.

No forced conversation, no tip-grovelling, just quick, efficient, uninterruptive service.

>>16468938
based, look at all this tasty seethe LOL

>>16486615
I wouldn't trust Stacey and Becca to pay attention that hard to shit like that. A simple vibrator like their dogshaped one at home that notifies them that table 3 wants something would be sufficient for Americans

>>16468935
If the bread and butter is bad (bread is stale, bread is not warm, butter is cold and you can’t spread et etc ), just leave and avoid the rest of the meal.

>Dinner restaurant
>Main course menu is larger than 20 items
At this point they're just slightly shuffling the method of cooking around for the same 3 pieces of meat they have available.
The best places has something around 3-8 choices as it often means they are distinct meals and they better at making them plus less risk of shitty substitutions since they don't require tons of constantly on hand ingredients.

>>16486742
100% true. When a place only has a handful of items there's a good chance they are all damn good. When the menu is a mile long, it can mean bad things. It's fine with stuff like most Mexican restaurants where the item variety comes from serving 5 different fillings served in 5 different forms, but when you have a giant list of items with totally different ingredients it means it's more likely that the cooks will fuck up, less popular ingredients will sit around for too long, or that a lot of the items are just frozen and reheated to serve.

>>16486757
Isn't this basically the first and foremost method "Kitchen nightmares" uses to save restaurants? Cutting down their excessive menu?
Worst part is, I bet they ask people before they open what they should serve and everyone has different ideas so they think it's smart to just make as many as possible to please everyone.

>>16469315
i'm never taking the vaccine suck my greasy balls faggot

Gratuity not included.

Any restaurant still making their staff wear masks is tacitly admitting to being lazy, dirty sons of bitches who kept a filthy kitchen and coughed fluids onto their entrees before the meme virus was ever a thing.
Good hygiene at work is a culture. If you didn't trust your cooks not to bleed pus from their ear gages into the soup in 2019, you certainly aren't in 2021.

>>16469257
/pol/ has rotted his brain

Food tourist here , offering some online advice since I usually find hipster restaurants through Google Maps and therefore don't ever have to deal the shithole problems listed above. Assuming you want novel, high-quality food:

>Any mention of "reliability" in reviews, any boasts based on how long the restaurant has been around, any mention of personal sentiment involving said restaurant.
These are strong indications that the restaurants positive ratings came from older people, who care more about quality in repetition rather than anything worth your money. Food will be bland or boring.

>Rotating menu WITHOUT choices (prix fixe only), lots of talk about the head chef's training, accolades and artistry and his ability to cater to each dining party, any other heavy banking on brand recognition; anything with a TM or copyright symbol.
Putting aside the fact that most fixed price options are a ripoff, any chef offering only one menu is a small timer pretending to be big league. It means they don't have confidence in making anything other than their specials noteworthy. Food will be unusual, but not particularly amazing or well-tested. Lots of wannabees run these kinds of restaurants hoping to evolve into a celebrity chef. 200% chance that the chef will come out and try to get to know you/make friends with the dining party. A good restaurant runs on impersonal, impeccable service and the strength of the cuisine's reputation alone.

>A chain restaurant, or any restaurant with more than a few locations.
This doesn't need explaining, right? Any restaurant with the same menu everywhere is not going to be interesting enough to be worth your time. They are using the same basic template menu with various add-ons. You've probably had the same food better elsewhere, in a local restaurant. Obviously, independent locations that were successful enough to expand (preferably into a differently-named second location with a different focus) don't apply here.

>>16468935
Basic spelling errors on the menu, especially if it's a restaurant serving cuisine from a specific country.
If they can't be bothered to do a quick google or lexicon search they can't be trusted to make good food

>>16489746
didn't ask

>>16489611
God I wish that were me

>>16472793
you're unironically retarded arent you? Everyone has different tastes and everyone has different ways of making food you fucking moron, even restaurants that have a standardized menu. I fucking love italian food but you know what I also love? Black pepper. A lot of italian restaurants dont put a lot of pepper in their dishes, so instead of having a shit fit over the assumed blandness of the food, I just add more and enjoy my meal.

>restaurants

>>16486210
Holy shit, you have the same things I do. Shit sucks

>>16469137
Eh alot of places tend to get a rush later on at around 8 or 9 depends on the area early rush means you are in the burbs or near them so you are going to get shit, a late rush usually is the young money crowd typically a little more adventurous for better or for worse

>>16471446
Nah that's not a red flag, usually a restaurant has a supplier for produce, fish, meat, and bulk all seperate the firdt three are pretty simple but bulk is those big distributors and bulk is your catch all supplier from milk to the kitchen printer paper to the toilet paper in the bathrooms to cleaning products and basic ingredients like vinegar all would come from your bulk big name distributor, I don't use Sysco myself but have used Labatt as a friend became a rep, they are the same thing, I'd never order frozen foods from him and probably not meats either but urinal cakes and olive oil he is my guy.

>>16468935
If i go to a asian or non Fast food/ White food place. And i see more white staff, and people than i do other people. I know the place is shit tier, and not real food, but basic white bitch food.

>>16486100
what are you a japanese slave toa company? what kind of fucking low level min wage, shit tier job do you have??

because i have worked for many corporations, different ones too, and nobody fucking does that, unless some major shit is happening.

>>16483096
If I ever recieve a sticky menu I simply throw it out

>>16491390
>Wyte peppo dont spice dey food

>>16468938
These are awesome and I want a set now.

>>16477971
If it's not a Japanese restaurant with all Japanese staff the food is guaranteed mayo Sriracha trash.

>>16471786
>prices should be cheaper
>staff should be paid more
Choose one.

>>16468938
I own some of these actually. They're 32oz minimum and make great water glasses.

>>16486527
what a fucking non-issue
you're much more likely to have the opposite problem where servers don't refill your drink after 20 minutes

>>16468938
Fag

>>16486527
>i like terrible service.

>>16468938
never seen these in my life

When there is nothing on the menu that says the chef likes cooking (e.g. miso butter) but it's all jusy Bolognese, 'salad', hot chocolate, 0.5l regional macro

>>16492856
>being harassed by a wagie every 3min is good service
Seppos are so fucking backwards man, holy shit