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>Look up restaurants in my city on Tripadvisor
>top rated restaurant is a chain

Should I kill myself?

>> No.7614273

>>7614272
>Should I kill myself?

No, I agree that using tripadvisor is silly, but c'mon anon, all you have to do is stop using it. You don't need to kill yourself to achieve that.

>> No.7614275

>>7614273

The top rated restaurant here is an Applebee's. My life is going nowhere.

>> No.7614299

>>7614272
Have you tried moving to somewhere less cringeworthy? I'd try that first.

>> No.7614303

>>7614275
>My life is going nowhere.

Put your smartphone down. Go talk to some locals and ask where a good place to eat is. If they tell you applebees then just say "nah, we have those where I'm from, I want to go to a local place not a chain" and there you go.

>> No.7614308

>>7614272
>Should I kill myself?
>>>

Suicide is always the correct choice.

>> No.7614331

>>7614273
>>7614303
OP isn't looking for suggestions. The fact that a chain has a top ranking on a travel site means they live in a desolate flyover city.
t. kys

>> No.7614336

>>7614272
Move to a larger city and get out of your small Midwest town maybe?

>> No.7614343

>>7614299
>>7614336

The better question is this: how do we save the Midwest?

>> No.7614555

>>7614272
>not using Zomato

>> No.7614564

They obviously paid to be the top rated restaurant

>> No.7614586

Why is the Midwest so shit food-wise? It's a pity because I really want to visit, the countryside looks quite nice.

>> No.7614604
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7614604

>tfw restaurant i work at is top rated restaurant within 50 miles

>> No.7614615

>>7614586
its not that bad. gyros man

>> No.7614843
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7614843

>Making my way to Joshua Tree National Park
>No Buses go straight there from LA
>End up un Palm Springs
>Go to a pizza place
>Waitress tells me TWICE that they're ranked 8th in the nation
>Ask her what that means
>She says (less enthusiastically) ". . . we're ranked 8th in the nation on trip advisor"
>Ah, that's cool.
>From then on she seems slightly indignant that I wasn't excited about their rank on a website I've never used
>mfw

The Pizza was delicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVoAijFMao

>> No.7615045

>>7614604
>top 50

Stay pleb

>> No.7615114

>>7614843

What was the place called?

>> No.7615127

>look up my city
>first chain restaurant is #30
>still can't wait to leave this shit hole

>> No.7615172

>>7615114

Bill's Pizza

>> No.7615216

Do it faggit

>> No.7615495
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7615495

beat this faggots

>implying I will ever eat there though

>> No.7615521

>>7614272
Best in my town (according to tripadvisor) is Luigi's Pizza

>> No.7615531

>>7614604
>tfw my restaurant is second to a place that only serves platters

>> No.7615562

no, just move.

>> No.7615604
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7615604

Do restaurants that have several locations only inside a 50-mile radius of your state still count as a chain?

If not, then 6/10 of the top places in my city on TripAdvisor are non-chains including #1 (it's a local country buffet cafeteria, think Po'Folks/Cracker Barrel with Barbecue, that's been here for a thousand years).
#2 is Mellow Mushroom which is probably as close to a decent Pizzeria as I'll ever see unless I invest the $90 for a Baking Steel and do it myself.

>> No.7615625

>>7615495
>says the faggot who lives in Zwolle.

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7615866

>>7615625

>> No.7615880

>>7614343
>

yall niggas need to remember that chicago is in the midwest.

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7616156

>>7615045
you read good

>> No.7616334

I've found that tripadvisor ratings are almost exclusively middle aged or older.

I dont know what it is about middle aged people, but their tastes in food is almost always shit.

Go on yelp if you want real food reviews.

>> No.7616367

>>7616334
What happens is that the older people who are competent (including literal computer geniuses, and people who are merely of average intelligence) fly under your radar. They don't write in all caps, or say "Sincerely" at the end of a review, or type today's date into the review text, or any other uniquely "old people" stuff. Naturally, you read their posts in "young people" voice, even though they're not. It's kind of like how everyone posting on 4chan is presumed to be a guy.

TA makes it very easy to write a review. You don't need to register, or deal with emailed links, or do temp passwords, or whatever. These things you find trivial, they consider to be advanced-level computing expert tasks.

As a result, the same people who found registration to be a big obstacle on Yelp, also tend to write in all caps and say stuff like "my grandson" and type the date into a non-date-field. It seems to you that all old people are on TA, whereas it's just the dumb ones who never learned to touch type.

>> No.7616377

I work in restaurant #23 in my city on trip advisor. All of the restaurants above me are also local. #39 was the first chain place

>> No.7616398

>>7616377

Thanks mate, where can I get the full review?

Boring cunt.

>> No.7616406

I just looked up the top restaurant in my city on TripAdvisor.

It is fucking IKEA lol holy shit.

>> No.7616410

>>7616406

Those meatballs are fucking delicious t bh

>> No.7616418

>>7616367

Interesting thought.

>> No.7617669

>Look up restaurants in my city on Tripadvisor
>first 25 are chains
>#19 is Barnes and Noble

>> No.7617682

>>7616410
you heard that they had to recall them (they are premade and frozen) because they found out that they are not always made with 100% beef........ they found, horse, elk and pork in them

>> No.7617683

>>7615880
We never forgot. is pizza casserole and shitty hot dogs supposed to be fine dining now?

>> No.7617721

>>7617669

top kek. Is it the cafe inside or something?

>>7617682

I don't get what the obsession with horsemeat is. They openly sell it as a delicacy in some parts of Europe. Had some horsemeat tartare in Verona that knocked my socks off. As for elk, people eat that all the time. As for pork, inshallah.

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7617788

>>7615880
>>7617683
Ehmm Dr Crane moved there so it must have fine dining

>>7615114
Sbarro

>> No.7617805

>look up my city
>first chain restaurant is #58