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It mostly comes up when I'm trying to find a place in a city i haven't been before. So I'm skimming through hundreds of reviews accross dozens of different places, and they all seem to be people who have never eaten at a restaurant before so they're just dazzled by the concept of having someone bring food to them in exchange for money.
My process for finding good restaurants in a new place
Generate a )ist from Tiktoks and the local subreddit. From that list:
look at menus, you can generally immediately eliminate places with shitty menus. You can maybe tell upside from menus, but this is easier to fake. You'll also go through their website on the way to the menu, which is also a signal.
huge agree on reviews, at this point I largely ignore positive reviews. I mostly focus on the pictures of food, and then I read a bunch of negative reviews. Are they negative because the person is mad or from things outside of a restaurant control? Great. Negative because the food sucks? Eliminate.
Usually you end up with like 3-5 places, now just pick one, you won't be able to make a perfectly informed decision and this is enough.
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