Originally Posted by
malsf1
+1. Another issue I have is when someone complains about the price (e.g. too pricey). With all the information available about restaurants and their related prices, why would someone complain "after the fact"? If someone is dissatisfied with the food, that is a legitimate complaint and can usually be addressed with the server or restaurant manager.
Personally, I don't agree with this. Yes, you will usually know the prices before you go somewhere, but what you don't know is whether the food is worth the price. I might pay $10 or $35 for a 10 oz strip steak, depending on the type of restaurant, quality of the meat, cooking, seasoning, etc. If I go to a restaurant with $35 steaks, but find that they're only $20 value, I would definitely include in the review that it was "too pricey". Likewise, getting a $30-quality steak for $12 would merit a "great value" comment.
Short of outright mis-cooking (e.g. oversalting, over/undercooking, burning, etc), there's not much you can do about this with the server or manager. Complaining that "this steak really wasn't worth what you charged" isn't going to get you very far (at least in my experience).
Originally Posted by MariaSF
I tend to ignore those complaints in reviews, too. They generally come followed by "portions too small".
Again, I would consider this to be a perfectly valid comment. I want a review to tell me if all you get is a few rabbit droppings of mash, or whether the side order of vegetables is two anemic carrots and a rogue piece of cabbage.
Maybe I'm weird.
Scratch that...I'm definitely weird. But maybe my weirdness extends to my taste in reviews...