Originally Posted by thegeneral
Go to a restaurant that isn't a chain and you likely won't have these experiences.
You can have a bad meal anywhere, at any time, in any restaurant in the world.
If anything, you're like to have the same, predictable meal at a chain location(good or bad) because their training, materials, recipes and rules are (or should I perhaps say, should) be the same everywhere.
Just because Mom 'n' Pop run a restaurant out in the sticks doesn't mean they know anything about food or service. And just because you go to a Weber Grill in Chicago doesn't automatically mean the food won't be OK. Every time you walk into a restaurant, you're rolling the dice.