“10 Alarming Red Flags That Reveal You’re Dining in a Restaurant Disaster!”
When the server can’t recommend the food. A good restaurant not just allows the servers to eat the food, but likes it when they do so they can give educated feedback.
I always like seeing a table of servers having their shift meals and the table is laid out with all the good stuff and they are enjoying the food and each other – it means the food is really good and they don’t work for a******s, which is something I like in a restaurant.
I remember years ago in a Chinese restaurant we’d never been to before, I went to use the bathroom before our food came. I used it, then an employee (looked like a chef) came in, and as I was washing my hands, he used the toilet. By the time I was done, he was done, and he left without washing his hands.
I left the bathroom and saw our food on the table, told my wife and kids what happened, and we told the waitress what happened and left abruptly without eating. I felt obligated to let some other tables know what happened too, which I felt weird doing but also morally obligated to do so.
Yuck.
When the not-quite-clean smell from the restrooms somehow permeates the entire place.
“I won’t eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn’t a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can’t be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.”
— Anthony Bourdain.
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