Originally Posted by
darthbimmer
I only see locally owned restaurants enjoying an edge in service if I compare apples to oranges: a bright, loud, mid-scale chain versus a quieter, more fine dining-oriented local restaurant. Within comparable styles and price ranges, they're more or less the same overall.
I've found when I live someplace, I can find local places that fit my taste better than any chain. There's sufficiently little accounting for taste that while Yelp (etc) can help avoid those local places which are genuinely BAD, the "fits my taste better than a chain does" aspect is not usually that helpful and it is more hit or miss.