Denker Richter Hänger
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I live in Winchester, VA and for some reason, this little city has something like 15 Chinese restaurants (I'm not exaggerating), at least 5 Japanese Restaurants and one or two Indian restaurants.
We're spoiled rotten. Because of the competition, I can usually find an all-you-can-eat buffet for $7 with a little change.
The layout of your restaurant seems typical. Your remark "sometimes the food varies.....but in a nice way" made my eyebrow raise. There should be predictable consistency of every dish.
If it's the type of setting where you seat yourself, make sure the wait staff are not in some corner gossiping or bytching about management, oblivious to the new customers that have just entered the dining room. This is the chief reason I don't dine at these Chinese establishments: the Chinese wait staff are hissing snake vicious when they've been caught farting around and you and your party have been seated at your table waiting for service for 10 minutes, unable to get their attention.
I swore off Chinese-American food. For three reasons: 1) I never see Chinese people eating it as patrons, 2) the food itself only LOOKS healthy (it's actually loaded with things that will make you fatter than KFC) and 3) the not always correct attitude of the Chinese staff and owners, the latter, while making money from them, hold American people, especially FAT Americans and our culture, in contempt.
The Japanese are at least refined enough to not register contempt on their faces in your presence as you navigate the menu. And the food not nearly so unhealthy.
I know Chinese restaurants are popular and the food is admittedly good. But it's always a good idea to look at them under a bright light, they're in a business making money like everyone else, and they're not going to come out and tell you the kitchen has cockroaches in it, the awful, industrial strength sushi is from yesterday, that they simply refrigerated, and that they consider you a feeble minded, white/black/brown American pig.
We're spoiled rotten. Because of the competition, I can usually find an all-you-can-eat buffet for $7 with a little change.
The layout of your restaurant seems typical. Your remark "sometimes the food varies.....but in a nice way" made my eyebrow raise. There should be predictable consistency of every dish.
If it's the type of setting where you seat yourself, make sure the wait staff are not in some corner gossiping or bytching about management, oblivious to the new customers that have just entered the dining room. This is the chief reason I don't dine at these Chinese establishments: the Chinese wait staff are hissing snake vicious when they've been caught farting around and you and your party have been seated at your table waiting for service for 10 minutes, unable to get their attention.
I swore off Chinese-American food. For three reasons: 1) I never see Chinese people eating it as patrons, 2) the food itself only LOOKS healthy (it's actually loaded with things that will make you fatter than KFC) and 3) the not always correct attitude of the Chinese staff and owners, the latter, while making money from them, hold American people, especially FAT Americans and our culture, in contempt.
The Japanese are at least refined enough to not register contempt on their faces in your presence as you navigate the menu. And the food not nearly so unhealthy.
I know Chinese restaurants are popular and the food is admittedly good. But it's always a good idea to look at them under a bright light, they're in a business making money like everyone else, and they're not going to come out and tell you the kitchen has cockroaches in it, the awful, industrial strength sushi is from yesterday, that they simply refrigerated, and that they consider you a feeble minded, white/black/brown American pig.
