Restaurant Goers!

[velvett]

What is important to you in your dining experience and in what order?

A - Quality of food
B - Selection of food dishes
C - Presentation of food
D - Overall restaurant ambience
E - Wait staff function
F - Wait staff appearance
G - Seating arrangement
H - Type of seating and comfort

Please give a rating 1-4 (4 being the highest) as to importance.

Assume that this is a high-end restaurant and money is no object to you.


Please feel free to add any of your own comments or personal experiences.

 

[Citruscide]

The Hotosity of the waitresses....

C-ditty

 

[velvett]

The Hotosity of the waitresses....

C-ditty

Fair enough.



SERIOUSLY people - I really want to know what you really think. I'm renovating a restaurant right now and it will be going through a complete image make-over so your opinions count.

 

[Optimus B]

A - 4++
B - 3
C - 1
D - 2.5
E - 3.5
F - 3
G - 2
H - 2

 

[ariolanine]

What is important to you in your dining experience and in what order?

A - Quality of food
B - Selection of food dishes
C - Presentation of food
D - Overall restaurant ambience
E - Wait staff function
F - Wait staff appearance
G - Seating arrangement
H - Type of seating and comfort

Please give a rating 1-4 (4 being the highest) as to importance.

Assume that this is a high-end restaurant and money is no object to you.


Please feel free to add any of your own comments or personal experiences.

A - 4
B - 2
C - 3
D - 4
E - 4
F - 4
G - 2
H - 2

Gotta have prompt service with great food. Treat me like a king and money will be no object when it comes time to tip.

 

[flexed1]

What sells a restaurant? Why do some fail and some make killings? Is it location? Is it food quality? Is it service? Is it decor? Yup each and everyone with location being the least important.

Bottom line find a restaurant that has beena round for ever. Facts are you will seed ay in and day out execution of food, service, and making you the guest feel important. Walk into a restaurant that is dirty, has plates on tables, and has no visible manager and you have a failure.

There are many places I have eaten theat where actually in "hoods" but the food, service and execution was great and the palce was packed. The furnishings where few but on every level they amde me feel important and made sure my visit was great. Thats how to make a restaurant make it pure and simple.

 

[Raina]

A, D, E, B, C, H, G, F

Our favorite place has a really fun atmosphere-- almost borders on being more like a bar/club. It's not a romantic lil nook or anything, but the food is always awesome and the prices are moderate too. Plus now they have a new section of the menu devoted to low carb food and it's SO nice to have a more broad selection of lean meat/veggie dishes instead of having to just request no bread/potato/crap I don't eat.

 

[Raina]

Oooh....and another one of my favorite places has amazing presentation. They make crunchy lobster rolls (with lobster, a little citrus, and macadamia nuts) and they serve them on a plate hovering in a little cauldron. Then they throw some dry ice in right before serving and the whole deal fogs out over the table for a few minutes.

Also, CONSISTENT service!! There are some places I avoid just because the service is so horrid. Half-ass serving is something I have little tolerance for. I like it when the servers have actually tasted all of the food and are attentive.

 

[CanadianCripple]

4
2-depends on where i'm going.
4
3
4
4
2
2

 

[rsnoble]

Your forgettin somethin. Fuck the food, how about cold beer? I will straight up walk out the damn place if the beer is warm. Food is secondary, but it has to be good. Plus the quality of the food is allowed to slip a little with multiple "cold" beers. The coldest beer I ever had served to me at a restaurant that actually had ice crystals in it was in Tombstone. Yeah, right in the middle of the fucking desert and here in the midwest in winter I gotta bitch about a warm fuckin beer. Bastards. My new fridge rocks though, will freeze a beer real fast.

I love eating out, but I cook a lot at home to. I can just about fuck anyone up with steaks off the grill. Including the famous kc steakhouses. Ive had people say theyd never eat steak again unless I cook it. Of course they had a lot of "cold" beers also so maybe that helped out the compliment. Thats ok though, I still liked hearing it.