people that YELP are scumbags

yes, the problem with yelp is that the reviewers just aren't critical enough

i h8 how yelpers like to put the waiters name in the review, "our server, DAVID..." such a tedious lil power-trip

xp there are always the same proportion of critical reviewers though, hence you always get an aggregate around 4 stars unless a place is just SOOOO terrible that people agree (and even when a place is SOOOO good people never agree, so it still gets 4 stars). So it's of very limited use as a restaurant finder, beyond just vetting places for outright horribleness.

this is a yelper with a book deal http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/six-rules-for-dining-out/308929/

i dunno about scumbag but the man who wrote that is, uh, we used to say "eccentric" right? hell of a document...

The Atlantic plays it so straight I honestly can't tell if they're trolling...

VIDEO: The author discovers an exceptional Vietnamese restaurant in a suburban strip mall near Washington, D.C.

there's probably some valid points in there, but he frames it all in such a gross and unappealing way, makes me want to ignore the whole thing

Beware the Beautiful, Laughing Women

New giallo title.

I also start to worry if many women in a restaurant are beautiful in a trendy or stylish way. The point is not that beautiful women have bad taste in food. Instead, the problem is that they will attract a lot of men to the restaurant, whether or not the place serves excellent food. And that allows the restaurant to cut back on the quality of the food.

uh

malcolm gladwell has ruined the world

uh

― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, April 15, 2016

it's a truly amazing document

thanking u caek for this important discovery

A small aside: in many restaurants, it is a propitious omen when the diners are screaming at each other. It’s a sign they are regular customers and feel at home. Many Chinese restaurants are full of screaming Chinese patrons. Don’t ask me if they’re fighting, I have no idea—but it is a sign that I want to be there too.

uh

I just got to Exploit Restaurant Workers and I am pretty sure this dude has a head collection in his freezer

haha are you guys totally unfamiliar with Tyler Cowen? he's a really prominent economist (well, internet-prominent; i have no idea what his academic rep is)

I don't follow (m)any economists so no, I don't know him. I am sad I now know how he approaches food, and also I am a little sadder about the entire concept of food.

http://marginalrevolution.com/

i'm going to state this without ever having seen it, but i'm sure somewhere in there is a comment thread with the internet's most white hot tipping debate

Tragically a data scientist I otherwise respect tweeted it approvingly.

On the plus side, when he described the staff at a place "scurrying" he was referring to a high end restaurant.

guy is really good at explaining how some knobs on a box with infinite knobs effects the output of the box even though he can never hold the other rapidly changing knobs constant so as to isolate the effects of the knobs he is guessing about, i.e. he is an economist.

makes sense. takes a knob to know knobs right?

I also start to worry if many women in a restaurant are beautiful
in many restaurants, it is a propitious omen when the diners are screaming at each other

where does this leave a restaurant with a beautiful screaming lady

http://www.screencuisine.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/scarry.jpg

i like this guy's reviews. very concise. https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/100536068433117057819/reviews/@39.2847064,-76.6204859,12z

tyler cowen is a libertarian scumbag, not a real economist. isn't he at fucking GMU?

not only at GMU, but head of the Mercatus Center there. It's the flagship of academic libertarianism and basically the creation of the Koch network.

def the kind of dude i want lunchsplaining my shit

http://i.imgur.com/iwdRK5T.png

well yeah

impossible

3-to-3.5 star restaurants are consistently good on Yelp -- it's the only thing about the site worth a bean. You head into a new town, find a kind of restaurant you are looking for, scan the 3-to-3.5 reviews to make sure there is no criticism of the food that makes any coherent sense, and you are good to go.

but what if the server doesn't wave at me when I come in

i give 1-star reviews if i'm not french kissed at least 3 times and it has to be by actual french people

Then try not to ask for your banh mi without chilis.

Yelp is extremely useful outside of the ratings just for the advanced filtered search. No quicker way to find an Indian food place in a specific neighborhood, that takes cards, is kid friendly, good for groups, has coat check and has a full bar.

Yep and the price ranges too

peanut butter bomb dot com.
basil soy protein omg nom.
seitan skewers keep me alive
the food is always quick to arrive
when a vegan feast I seek
I order here most every week!

a small body of work, but compelling
http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=ZsCRfmoaraA6uCdJP8P7KA

I've never been but by the looks of the pics and the review people seems to be happy with the place and so I rated it 5 stars

:)

We actually avoid Pizza Huts in general now. My last experience was at this location. Went to dinner with out of town friends with a child that could not tolerate specific foods (so ordered a plain pizza because of it.) We ordered two pizzas and when one showed up we decided to wait until the other showed up because we didn't want to eat without the child eating also. After a polite wait I went up to the servers area and asked when we would see our other pizza and the waitress went nuts claiming I pulled her hair. The other servers went into gang mode and I never touched the woman. Not only do we not eat there but there are so many other pizza establishments that it won't be missed. Try Pat's Pizza instead.

do not order from here service is always bad and will always get your order wrong. ordered a pepperoni pizza and they send me this wow a joke i guess. i guess thats how this company treat there employee's

Pizza Hut Gang Mode

ordered a pepperoni pizza and they send me this wow a joke i guess

DO NOT GIVE MICHAEL'S FROZEN CUSTARD YOUR BUSINESS!!!
They call the parking police (who then ticket your car...$30 fine) even when, as what happened with us, you go across the street with the intention of getting an ice cream after. AND when we called to ask them why they called the Parking Police they were rude and refused to write a letter stating it was an error. We will never go there EVER again and urge others to boycott them.

wow i gotta say, ice cream in a college town really brings out the yelpiest of yelp reviewers

I've had really good turkey burgers from Michael's, and I've had turkey burgers that were undercooked and scary and that I ended up throwing out after a couple of gross, slimy bites, fearing for my health. In both cases, I have observed, without any judgement, that different staff could be associated with different burger outcomes.

In all cases where I was served a well-cooked and well-assembled burger, the staff appeared to be from south-of-the border. I am given to understand by those in the know that a large percentage of restaurant staff is of Mexican or Central American origin. I made the assumption, from their distinct Latin appearance and relatively thick accents, that this was the case at Michael's. Also, in those cases, I observed that the service was quick, efficient, and courteous.

On the other hand, in all cases where I was server a horrible, inedible burger, the associated staff was comprised of teenaged white kids. In those cases, the service was slow and inattentive, and the kids could barely put down their iPhones to help me as I stood at the order window. The burgers were haphazardly assembled, and usually of lesser quality generally.

I offer these observations without agenda, and I leave any conclusions for you, Dear Reader, to draw for yourself.

O_o

"without agenda"

"dear reader" is literally the worst

burger outcomes

Reader, I yelped him.