30 Red Flags To Keep An Eye On To Spot A Bad Restaurant, As Shared On This Online Group

ELEPHANT!!! Noooooo.

JESUS! Such horrid story with no warning!

Cool pic, the woman looks like she's floating above the floor. She must be sitting on a stool or something.

From what I read, it's just for TV show, once camera off, he's quite nice person. And also certain amount of British humour and attitude is involved.

The last time we went to what had been our favorite sushi place the bathroom was really dirty. We never sent back and they were closed down by the health dept not long after.

Money laundering?

Yes. At most, it should smell like the ocean.

Well in the NYC area, it is quite common to find in many kosher place both Pizza and Sushi. Many dairy kosher restaurants have both on the menu. Many are quite good

Also, dirty floors are just nasty, even if they’re cleaning everything else.

Massively disagree on this, I went to a 3* Michelin restaurant, turned up 10 minutes before service started, there was a staff huddle in the car park, service staff mainly, all late teens early 20's, did a massive group high 5 on the end of it, good to see that level of teamwork and not something I'd seen before.They were all impeccable and the service was excellent (their boss has won many, many awards), an utter credit to their employer and themselves.

This ! A nice little restaurant in Rome, just accross the street of the Colloseum. Wonderfull view, espetially durring the sunset. Worst pizza I've seen and tasted in my life 😝

Your beef stew is only one microwave 'ding' away.

Ok but that spread in the pic looks f****n amazing.

I can deal with poor lighting as I'm sensitive to bright light, but can't do sticky tables.

Not necessarily a problem, it could just be fries and onion rings. I also hate to tell everyone but unless you are on the shore and you know the fried seafood is fresh, it's probably from Sysco and it's delicious!

What's the problem with an innocent roachie, trying to feed on mid-priced meal, for a change? Stop being so judgemental, people 🙄

Ah, to be fair, one of the best meals I ever had was at a tiny local Restaurant in rural France, where the owner / Chef bought his ingredients for the day at the local market, then made his menu round those ingredients. 2 chalkboards outside told you what was on offer and you had to wait for a table as the locals always got there early. I forget what I'd ordered (possibly an Ossobuco style dish and my girlfriend had a parma wrapped Chicken dish). Both were stupendous - we were almost the last people to get food that evening and the locals who'd arrived late had a few drinks and wandered off, not unhappy, but a bit dissappointed that he'd run out of food. Had a chat with the owner afterwards in my really bad French and he stated that he would only cook for the number of people that would'nt put him under stress but would make him a decent living, something he seemed to have achieved. Went back many years later, the restaurant was there under new management. It wasn't the same.

this depends. the restaurant I work at can be not busy on holidays because we're 1 mile away from a major university. on holidays all the students are gone, so we tend to be slower.

Obviously.

Well duh. How do you know that before you go?

Not a deal breaker for me. If the food is good, I'll just believe that they have a limited time to clean and the kitchen is a priority over the windows. I'm blissfully happy in my ignorance.

I would never go to a buffet anyway. People handle food and put it back, they cough and sneeze on the food, they taste soups straight from the ladle. People are disgusting. And the food at a buffet is usually really badly done anyway.

Not neccesarily true. One resuarant that I know of has absolutely amazing food, but it's a smaller one and less crowded.Other people haven't discovered it yet, so I get to keep it to myself. (:

I remember going into a newly opened restaurant and seeing that. We gave it a chance because it was new but after getting a drink the waitstaff disappeared. Periodically someone would sneak through the dining room and deliberately not make eye contact. After about 15-20 minutes no-one had come back to take our food order and NO-ONE in the place had been served food that whole time. We left and never went back. Place went under within about a month. Big surprise!

Completely agree with the "Google rule". Below 3.5 stars it's probably not worth (well or it's the s****y pub at the end of main road everbody goes to...). Between 3.5 to 4.0 you still can be up for a mixed experience - most of the time poor wait-staff. (Judging my middle European country.)

is the picture of an ikea?

Not everywhere does ratings. *Edit: Even if they do, that doesn't guarantee much. My company was doing a favor for a chain to get ahead of some bad videos that were coming out, so we inspected all their restaurants in the area. I had to wait for the Health Department to finish at one - they received an excellent report from them. In the first minute, I came across cockroaches. I found severe infestations of cockroaches and rodents, a failing walk-in cooler, and sewage dripping near to-go containers in the basement. None of it was on the report. They were closed to fix the issues and I had to go back a month later. They fixed none of it. To make matters worse, someone from my company gave them a passing score on their regular inspection before I showed up for the follow up visit.

Pizza sauce is the easiest thing in the world to make. Roma tomatoes, bit of garlic, salt, and fresh basil in the blender. Done. You don't need to cook it because it'll cook in the pizza oven. (If it's too thin a sauce, throw it in the fridge and let the pectins do their thing.)

Unless it's a Chinese restaurant.

I won $1,000 on one of these, back when $1000 was worth something. It was a very happy day!