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A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. The quality is uniformly terrible and the kitchens are often unsanitary

A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. The quality is uniformly terrible and the kitchens are often unsanitary. I imagine that running one of these in the dark is not going to improve on that baseline.

gernb 4y ago
A agree with you but I'm not sure the general public does. For a long time The Cheesecake Factory was very popular and they arguably have a large unfocused menu. I'm not saying they're good but giving how popular they were lots of people thought they were good.
- bombcar 4y ago
  There’s a specific class of “reheat Sysco” restaurants that are quite popular - Dennys, Applebees, etc. their menus are designed to have something for everyone and so are an acceptable middle ground when people don’t agree on where to go. Same reason you’ll find a burger at the local Chinese/Mexican place, so the kids will shut up (one fo the absolute best burgers I’ve ever had was from a small burrito shop so appearances can be deceiving).
gtyras2mrs 4y ago
> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they have 2 different listings and thus 2 separate menus, they are able to create a relatively cohesive and simple menu for each listing. So on first glance Behrouz Biriyani, looks fairly straightforward. It serves Biriyanis (with a lot of variants/sizes/combos etc). And Faasos serves wraps, rolls and other related snack foods. If you did not know that these were essentially from the same place, you would assume that these were separate restaurants with relatively focussed menu, hence passing said cardinal rule. With physical restaurants, the rule is easier to apply. With deliveries, it's far more difficult as the huge, unfocussed menus get separated into different restaurant listings.

gernb 4y ago

A agree with you but I'm not sure the general public does. For a long time The Cheesecake Factory was very popular and they arguably have a large unfocused menu. I'm not saying they're good but giving how popular they were lots of people thought they were good.

bombcar 4y ago
There’s a specific class of “reheat Sysco” restaurants that are quite popular - Dennys, Applebees, etc. their menus are designed to have something for everyone and so are an acceptable middle ground when people don’t agree on where to go. Same reason you’ll find a burger at the local Chinese/Mexican place, so the kids will shut up (one fo the absolute best burgers I’ve ever had was from a small burrito shop so appearances can be deceiving).

gtyras2mrs 4y ago

> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they have 2 different listings and thus 2 separate menus, they are able to create a relatively cohesive and simple menu for each listing. So on first glance Behrouz Biriyani, looks fairly straightforward. It serves Biriyanis (with a lot of variants/sizes/combos etc). And Faasos serves wraps, rolls and other related snack foods. If you did not know that these were essentially from the same place, you would assume that these were separate restaurants with relatively focussed menu, hence passing said cardinal rule. With physical restaurants, the rule is easier to apply. With deliveries, it's far more difficult as the huge, unfocussed menus get separated into different restaurant listings.