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Why are most restaurants so retarded?

Seriously, I took a trip in DC and ordered pasta from 5 different restaurants over my stay. Not a single one of them cooked it right. It was either undercooked and starchy or completely overcooked. The sauces were also bland and it appears nobody had heard of salt before.

I find this to be a common theme in many restaurants across the nation, many of which are doing fine and have 4+ star reviews for some retarded reason. Why the fuck can't restaurants cook the simplest of items?

>> No.14969517

Did you go to 5 olive gardens?

>> No.14969527

>>14969516
it's the masks they're too busy crying to pay attention to quality.

>> No.14969540

>>14969516
Oh look another polbait thread. No one cares about your trip to DC you major queer. Please fuck off

>> No.14969553

I've worked in a lot of restaurants and only liked three of them. There's bullshit high school drama from the front all the way to the back. Don't expect to see a chef who wants constructive criticism when he could get sucked off instead.

The one chef I had who did want the opinions of the underlings made excellent grits. Transcendent grits.

>> No.14969555
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14969555

>>14969516
>order stuffed crazy bread from 'tle 'sars
>supposed to come with sauce
>delivery guy forgets
>next time add 89 cent cup of sauce
>they bring me 2 sauces

>> No.14969566

>>14969517
Nay my friend. I avoid chains, I am not a pig who wants to suckle off the profits of the locals.

All 5 were local restaurants, one had 3 locations in total. 3 were family owned and 2 owned by ethnic Italians. One was upscale and cost me $90 for a two-person meal.

None of them delivered. Even the upscale one handed me chicken parmigiana, only to find that they used shredded cheese mixed with cellulose. Probably kraft cheese.

I routinely find restaurants using awful ingredients, preparing them poorly, with ill trained waiting staff. The only good Italian restaurant I found was a Michelin star one, and the portions were obviously slim and unaffordable for regular consumption.

I am thoroughly disappointed. Only Mexican restaurants seem to even be aware that spices exist.

>> No.14969591

>>14969553
>Don't expect to see a chef who wants constructive criticism when he could get sucked off instead.
People are too sensitive nowadays. You need criticism to ever improve. I'm no fan of Ramsay but some of these people needs boots in their arses

>> No.14970414

>>14969566
Anon, you went to tourist traps.

>> No.14971092

>>14969540
why is it pol

>> No.14971257

>>14969566
Mexicans don't use spices

>> No.14973184

>>14970414
The lengths people will go to to deny their country sucks

>> No.14973195

>>14969516
I think DC just has shitty food. I went in my high school years for a class trip thing and the one thing we wanted was good chinese food, we went to 3 different restaurants near and in China town and they were all fucking awful.

>> No.14973197

>>14969516
are you retarded
you cook pasta to your liking, it's personal preference, unless it's completely off like it's crunchy

>> No.14973210

>>14969555
nice, now you have a spare sauce in case they forget next time

>> No.14973211

>>14973197
>doesn't know how to cook good pasta
>calls others retarded

It needs to be firm, not starchy, not undercooked that it sticks to your teeth, and not overcooked so that it looks like it's soaked double it's weight in water.

Making good pasta might be the simplest job in the world, and the inability of many to perform this task leads me to conclude that most people are retarded and gay.

>> No.14973235

>>14973211
yeah that's your preference though? how are they supposed to know how you subjectively define good pasta?

>> No.14973289

>>14973235
I knew they sent hordes of shills around for the express purpose of gaslighting me

>> No.14973340

>>14969516
Take pasta. Cook it 3/4 of the way and plunge into 5 gallon pail of icy water. Into the walk in cooler. Make one or two like this every day.

When you get pasta order, grab it from the pail, into boiling water a minute or so. Drain and plate.

If making "baked lasagne" do same, except put pasta in tin serving dish, cover with meat sauce, cheese and into the pizza oven til cheese is lightly browned.

That's how they do it.

>> No.14973350

>>14973340
Americans really have no shame

>> No.14973641

>>14969516
Because noodles go on the steam table.

>> No.14973650

>>14973641
These types of things would be unacceptable even in third world shitholes. Only America does shit like this.

But then again, half of what Americans eat isn't even fucking edible

>> No.14974072

>>14971257
Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

>> No.14974122

Pasta is not what you order from a restaurant. A) it's so fucking easy & cheap to do at home b) even good places generally have it half cooked & only finish to order which is common to screw up.

>> No.14974157

>>14974122
Why is every person on here a contrarian fuckstick?

Every other country on Earth, but America is capable of cooking pasta in a restaurant. It is not my fault because your people are absolutely retarded and can't cook the simplest of deals.

Shove it up your ass and get aids faggot.

>> No.14974168

I want to buy a pasta attachment but they're expensive and I wouldn't use it that much.

I also wanna go to more italian places but I have no friends. :(

>> No.14974193

>>14974157
Pasta is stupid to get takeout though. And if you're eating in, going to a sloppa chain in Chinatown or downtown is a mistake. Protip, if you're near a convention center the food will be dogshit.
There's some good places around dupont or georgetown for nice tiny italian places. It'll cost you though. Btw a lot of those tiny places closed due to the kung flu so i highly doubt you ate at anything other than boca de pepo here.

>> No.14974956

>>14974193
Ah yes, only idiots go and eat pasta at restaurants. That's why there's hundreds of thousands of Italian restaurants in America alone.

>> No.14974991

>>14974956
This isn't the point you think it is

>> No.14975003

>>14969516
>visits low-quality tourist traps in tourist trap: the city
>gets butthurt
>complains about it on /ck/
imagine my shock

>> No.14975027

>>14974991
I seriously hate 4channers and would physically attack you irl