A fashionable restaurant, waiters in tailcoats and huge sums on the menu are not always a sign of a quality establishment where they really think about their guests. We have compiled a list of the most reliable signs to look out for if you really want to dine in a good place.
Call the restaurant
One call and you can already refuse to visit the entertainment establishment. True, this will only help if you want to book a table in advance.
And there are secrets here. First you need to time the time and see how long you will wait for an answer.
In a good place, where they even take care of their potential customers, they pick up the phone in a couple of seconds. This suggests that there are a lot of staff in the restaurant and all responsibilities are distributed between them, that is the administrator, as he should, answers the calls, and does not work in the kitchen due to the fact that there is not enough chefs.
You can test the restaurant by asking the administrator who answered you to do something that might be inconvenient for other visitors, for example, to put loud music directly for your table. Will they answer "Yes"? In this case, it is advisable to refuse - in such a place they simply do not think about guests at all.
And don't forget to check the reviews online. It is clear that they will be different - everyone will not like it. Just try to pay attention to how the representatives of the institution respond to the comments of forum users. If the reaction is polite, correct, this is a good sign.
Advice: if you nevertheless decide to go to the chosen institution, pay attention to the entrance - a dirty staircase, chips on the tiles, an old rug speak for themselves.
Browse the restaurant menu
This can tell about the "bad" habits of the waiters.
Have you chosen a place and have already arrived at a restaurant? Try timing again: the staff should bring the menu within 5 minutes of your arrival. If you wait too long, be prepared to wait even longer for dinner.
Look through the menu itself - the style of writing names and descriptions of dishes also indicates the level of the restaurant. For example, having noticed in the menu "The most delicate chicken meat with tasty potatoes" or "Green salad" are the first signs of amateurism. Quality food doesn't require such a literary description. But if there is no information on the composition, cost, weight of ingredients in the menu, this is a sign to think about it.
A large selection of dishes on the menu is also not the best. First, a good chef cannot specialize in all cuisines of the world at once. Secondly, with such a huge assortment, the products are usually stale and spoil. For example, if you went to an Italian restaurant, the menu should not include borscht, khinkali and other dishes that belong to other cuisines. And if they are on the menu, they are unlikely to be of high quality.
It is worth carefully examining the menu folder itself. It is reported to be the dirtiest item in any cafe, with over 150,000 bacteria on a single folder. And if this object is covered with fingerprints, dusty, which indicates the negligent work of the staff, imagine what could be happening in the kitchen.
Pay attention to the waiters
The first impression about your waiter and the staff in general can be made almost immediately. If restaurant employees communicate with each other instead of serving guests, this indicates their little professionalism. Remember - in restaurants that care about their reputation, waiters and bartenders are forbidden to communicate with each other in front of the client.
It is also worth taking a closer look at how the waiter holds the glasses, putting them on the table - he must hold them by the leg. And take a closer look at the dishes themselves: if there are no fingerprints on the glass, this rule is strictly observed in the restaurant.
Other tips:
- Examine the exterior. Waiters must be clean, ironed, hands and nails well-groomed. If this is not the case, it may indicate that the restaurant does not think about hygiene at all.
- When serving dishes on the table, the waiter must voice them. If an employee of an institution does it silently, then there is no smell of professionalism.
Listen to the sounds
If the kitchen is close to the living room, try listening to the sounds coming from it. For example, the familiar sound of a microwave oven will indicate that the restaurant is serving ready-made defrosted dishes.
But even if there are no such sounds, and you doubt the freshness of the products used, when ordering salad or main course, just ask to change their composition a little, for example, remove some ingredient. Heard a refusal? Most likely, they do not cook in this place, but rather warm them up.
By the way, if you ordered a dish that is very difficult to prepare, and it was brought to you literally in 10 minutes, this may also indicate the heating of a ready-made, but frozen dish.
It is worth paying attention to the temperature of food and drinks: food should not be too hot, and alcohol should not be icy. Often in this way, chefs and waiters want to hide the poor quality of products.
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