people that YELP are scumbags

Polish that up a little and you'd have a beautiful quid/ag NYT piece on the decline of service in five star restaurants.

jfc people are assholes

ORANGE

MOST flowers are spring colors, right? Because they bloom in the fucking spring?

disclaimer: I done gone eaten myself some fancy dinners so I gots to hold Sorellina to a higher standard! Therefore I'm going to be way harsh and deal some tough love this-a-way!

About 4 minutes go by (this is actually a LONG time when you are waiting for a hot meal) and I quietly said to my mom "Where is my entree?"

i've got a feeling jaime m. has never said anything quietly to anyone in her entire life

yelp search term gold: "who he thinks he is"

oh god

About 40,100 results (0.81 seconds)

We order a margarita that came suuuper week, so we complaint with her about it, off course she said nothing could be done, so we decided to order a shot of tequila on the side to drop into the drink, she stated the dropping the shot in the drink was against 'their rules', she brought the shots and said we had to drink in front of her!!! HOW DARE WAS SHE!!! What the heck?! If you are paying for your shot you drink the way you want! So stupid, saying that we would not take the shot to not get crazy, we returned the shot to the 'smart ass' waiter and walked to the bar, bought two shots, brought it back to the table and added to our weak margarita.
My friends son, 23 year old had a heat, back words, security came in saying to fix the heat or leave. We asked why, what's the problem, he said that they see it as a disrespectful action towards them and they don't tolerate that... Whatever.

HOW DARE WAS SHE!!!

fuck fixing a heat

i don't understand what it means to "have a heat"

i can't make my face into a heat

[kid's hat was on backwards]

Likely an English as a second language writer, keep it cool.

uh...

Likely an English as a second language writer, keep it cool.

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this was my suspicion too. ty for the translation rogermexico

tengo calor

The food here is just OK, Nothing special.
Service sucks unless you are a mexican.
They seem to get the order mixed up easily.
They forgot my drink with my order, Not going back here EVER.

I'm noticing for hotel reviews on Yelp/Priceline that "it's in a bad part of town" is shorthand for "a place where some poor people might live" srsly learned to start ignoring that part and just focus on the amenities/does it have bedbugs.

yet I feel like in the realm of one to two star hotels, I have yet to find one review where someone doesn't claim they got bedbugs, sooooo...

like everybody says the hotel I'm in right now was in a 'bad part of town' on Yelp and I'm here and it totally isn't! it's just a college area like any other state! and there was a kickass restaurant right next to the hotel! fuck you Yelpers! FUCK 2 YOU!!!

Reading Yelp is a sad substitute for discovering shit on your own or by word of mouth

huh. never discovered anything on yelp but i enjoy reading the 1* reviews of places i like

Yelp is useful for "what around here isn't completely terrible" and not much beyond that

IDK, I find great value in finding the least worst place to go. I'd miss it if it was gone.

Yeah, I think you can learn to read Yelp pretty well and use it to find places in towns you don't know, but never literally. The key is to look at restaurants you do know in a few different places, and then you get a feel what what praise is really damnation and vice versa.

oh god

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08/05/coming-to-yelp-a-bigger-dose-of-data-on-health-care-facilities/

'I just put my mom in there today.'

Ugh. At least ProPublica is involved?

i'd like to know more about clinics and hospitals. i don't want to know what yelpers think about clinics and hospitals. sort of like restaurants

Not that I've taken it that many times, but do the Yelp reviews of Peter Pan buslines seem disproportionately terrible? It's as though these people have never taken a regular bus anywhere before and are shocked by what it entails.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/peter-pan-bus-lines-new-york

multiple reviewers seem to be challenged at ordering tickets for the correct day of their trip, one is upset at the "subpar professionalism" of the driver because he tossed people's luggage (what do you think happens to it on an airplane?), one reviewer thinks it's the fucking stone age because s/he actually had to print out the ticket

sure enough it was perfectly fine, again

sure enough it was perfectly fine, again

This place is simply nasty. I just ate two bites of a torta arabe and it was horribly salty. I tried to exchange it for something else and the guy behind the counter said I should just get my money back. He said he was worried I would also return that. Not much confidence in his food.

They also put a ton of sugar in their juices and i wanted to exchange that and the lady was rude so I got my money back and split. Fuggedaboutit.

Oh, and the Yankee game was on TV and half the restaurant wanted to watch it but the ENTIRE staff could not figure out the remote. Will not be back.

I *love* ordering food at Mexican places. Did you know that there's 3,272 different combinations of tortillas, meat, salsa and cheese, when accounting for varying sizes and methods of cooking?

No joke.

Anyhoo, I'm not really what TJFlats IS. It's too pricey for fast food (my burrito... wait, enchilada...wait..chimichanga...and a drink cost like 11 bucks), and it's too fast-foody to be the kind of place you'd take someone on a date or go for beers. That said, the service was friendly - they got us beers before we even ordered - and quick. The food was tasty, fresh, and obviously there were the gajillion hot sauces to choose from - (I went for the "graveyard" mix - a little squirt of five or six sauces chosen at random and mixed into one cup). My meat 'n tortilla creation was a lil' big on the tortilla and short on the meat, but atleast the meat tasted good and not cheap like taco bell dog food meat. (Apologies to those of you who *like* taco bell dog food meat - don't lie, I know there's some of you.)

I've heard the place is kuh-razy during lunch hours, but when we went during dinner we were practically the only ones there. Come on downtowners! If we want to KEEP new restaurants and stuff opening up downtown, we've got to attend the ones we've got...

Now that I've left - I realize I have one big question - How late are they open?!? We definitely need more (and better) late night food options, and I know that if I was walking home at 2:30 in the morning from the bars, TJ Flats would sound like Mexican manna from heaven. Or cielo en la tierra, if ya wanna be Mexican about it.

I'll never eat here again!! My food has a small rock (pebble) which has me question how clean and up to health code the kitchen is. When I showed the manager, he has the nerve to tell me it was a bean as if I am retarded and don't know the difference between a bean and a rock! I've only been eating beans for 30 something years you know!!!

Good thing I have my hepatitis shots in case they don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.

I am retarded and don't know the difference between a bean and a rock

display name gold

I am a bean, I am a (thousand) islannnnddd (dressing)...

alton brown has opinions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/magazine/alton-brown-has-had-it-with-foodies.html

What a bozo. I used to love Good Eats and now I can't stand the sight of his smug face.

Also commenter nancy in Indiana (probably a yelper in her spare time) has some fascinating things to say:

have not watched food TV in many years. I remember Alton's earlier days and his shopping in Kroger's.

This Saturday Piggly Wiggly will mark its 99th year as the first true self service grocer. Before that customers were not allowed in aisles. You made a shopping list because you had to hand it over to a clerk to be served. Through the years mark the change we have observed in shopping:

Stores have added refrigeration and technology.

Stores have meats, dairy, produce.

Stores have added shopping carts instead of bringing your own shopping basket.

Stores have moved from the downtown areas to the outskirts of town, making downtown areas empty.

Stores started taking credit cards.

Stores have added liquor in some states where allowed. Promotions include buy six and get ten percent.

Stores now have cup holders on the carts for those who have to drink during the dehydrating activity of grocery shopping.

Besides food and chefs and foodies and fast food, look at the actual structure behind food supply. In the college town we have a stratification of Kroger, one being the Kroghetto and the other called the Krogucci, where the store actually has small games in going through the store with various tasks to win gift certificates.

While I cannot complain of availability of products, I agree something bothers me in the pit of my stomach about this, and I do not think it is the actual food.

Oh for the perfect olden days when stores were cash only and didn't refrigerate anything

xp - yeah the alton browns of good eats and cutthroat kitchen are like two different people

so essentially she made a bland list about changes in grocery store procedure and hoped the point would arrive on its own once she finished?

glad today to have learned of the evil ways of Big Grocery

It appears that way. Out of those the only bad one is moving groceries stores away from urban centers and arguably creating food deserts (although she seems to blame grocery stores for urban blight in general) and maybe depending on your personal morals, the booze could be bad but the rest of these things are good and useful and help people.

Maybe her father was a Piggly Wiggly clerk and never recovered from the loss of his job when grocery stores moved to a self service model. Also the thought of handing over a store list to a random stranger bothers me in the pit of my stomach (and I do not thing it is the actual food.)

lol yeah, it wasn't even clear to me that she was saying these developments were *bad* things until I saw the comment about moving the grocery stores away from downtown.

she also curiously seems to think it's a universal truth. In Orlando, we practically have grocery store congestion, they exist wherever people do. Including downtown, which has a gigantic Publix with a free parking garage underneath it.