Restaurant reviewer busted

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:33:37 -0800, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:


I don't even think about PVC until you quote her. I'm just talking
about the loss on anonymity needed to do her job effectively - no
matter if I agreed with her conclusions or not.

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
On 01/01/2011 11:21 AM, blake murphy wrote:


Despite someone's allegation that she was just there with friends for a
meal, she is a restaurant reviewer who arrived at a recently opened
restaurant.It sure looks like she was there as a reviewer. The customer
part was just part of her ploy to remain anonymous.
 
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:03:04 -0700 in rec.food.cooking, "gloria.p"
wrote,

When I put in my order at the one hour photo place their computer asks
for a name, so I usually use "Jack Sparrow". I suppose I should make
that Captain Jack Sparrow. (Even without that, the counter girl was
stifling a laugh.)
 
Dan Abel wrote:


I'm not rich but could afford that for a once in a lifetime meal. And
from all reviews and reports, it is worth every penny.
So once in a lifetime... I'd love to go!
 
Recorded most notably by Arthur Godfrey, Andrews Sisters, and Bobby Vinton.

Goes to show that everyone does not have the same taste ...............

Oh, I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her,
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

I get dizzy
I get numbo
When I'm dancing
With my Jum-Jum-Jumbo

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

Can she prance up a hill?
No, no, no, no, no
Can she dance a quadrille?
No, no, no, no, no
Does she fit in your coupe?
By herself she's a group
Could she possibly
Sit upon your knee?
No, no, no

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
And she's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
Yeah, she's too fat,
Much too fat
But she's just right for me

She's so charming
And she's so winning
But it's alarming
When she goes in swimming

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
So I sure want her, you can't have her
She's just right for me
But she's too fat!
She's not too fat!
She's just right for me!

She's a twosome,
She's a foursome
If she'd lose some
I would like her more some

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
Much too fat
She's too fat for me
Hey!
 
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:30:49 -0700, "gloria.p"
wrote:

Some people are like that. Very rigid in their thinking. I remember
someone getting upset about people trying to bargain at a charity
garage sale. Her attitude was "It's marked at this price, that's what
you pay". Hey, people haggle at garage sales.... if you can't do it
there, where can you?

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
In article ,
[email protected] (Victor Sack) wrote:


That's the terminology I am familiar with in the US. An associate or
bachelor degree are called undergraduate, and take 2 and 4 years
respectively. A graduate degree of master or doctor, usually requires
acquiring an undergraduate degree first.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
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"sf" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Never saw anything posted. One day the manager charged me for a senior
coffee so I figured I must be old enough and now I ask for it. What little
hair I have is 90% grey so I guess I qualify.
 
On 02/01/2011 3:11 PM, sf wrote:


Customer? She is a restaurant reviewer. It's not like she is more likely
to return if the food and service are good or more reluctant to return
if it was bad. She goes to restaurants because she is paid to write
reviews about them and her meals are reimbursed by her employer.
 
Melba's Jammin' wrote:



Are we talking food/service quality here or one upsmanship snobbery?
Quality or glitz?

I have a friend who claims her husband refuses to stay at any hotel
that's not 4 or 5 star. I'd much rather spend my money on having great
experiences during the day on a trip. Clean and safe are my criteria
for a hotel room. Stars are just expensive window dressing.

gloria p
 
Lyndon Watson wrote:



Yes, and with respect to sf's statement, musicians can have doctorates
in music. In jazz and blues circles, an intellectual musician
with a doctorate (and often, a sort of professorial demeanor) is likely to
get called "Doctor" by his/her peers as a sign of respect.


Well. In the old days, travel industry professionals would tell
me that putting "Dr." into your airline or hotel reservation
would give you an edge if they are bumping people. So I used to
sometimes do it, but I no longer believe any airline pays any attention.

Steve
 
All reviewers book under a false name. That is so the restaurant
doesn't know it is being reviewed and the reader gets a true piture of
the restaurant.

reply:

Funny. If I want a "true picture" of a restaurant, I prefer to go there
myself. I hate gorgonzola, and a few other things, and I don't want to read
a review mentioning that the gorgonzola parfait is to die for.

I have been in the service industry, and I know how "secret shoppers" and
"secret diners" can be intentionally abusive to test employees they want to
get rid of, or to test restaurants they don't like in the first place. IOW,
their mind is made up before they walk in.

A business should stand on its own merits. Not everyone wants the dining
experience that one of these stuffy reviewers expects, and is totally
satisfied with "good" food and "good" service, and will not pick it apart
because it isn't up to a reviewer's standards. In the meantime, a negative
review can cost a business dearly.

I'd personally like to see someone sue these reviewers or papers for loss of
business. Who appointed them in the first place?

And if you place all your trust in a reviewer, I have a bridge for sale near
you. I can be there tomorrow. Bring small bills in a brown paper bag,
please. Only the serious need reply.

Steve
 
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:46:38 -0800 in rec.food.cooking, sf
wrote,

The purpose of giving a name with the reservation is so that they can
tell which reservation you are talking about when you come in. Not so
easy if the reservation list says "Bob", "Bob", "Bob", and "Bob".
 
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