The restaurant has too many “themes”
If you like Italian food, it’s normal to want to eat at an Italian restaurant. The same goes for Chinese, Mexican or other themed restaurants. The problem is when the restaurant has way too many themes, styles and designs and doesn’t seem to have a clear personality.
In addition, when the menu doesn’t specialize in anything and there’s no house specialty, that should be your cue to hit the road. That’s because it could be a sign that the food is not fresh. “For example, a restaurant will not buy fresh meat every morning if the chances of someone ordering a steak are one in fifty”, warns food and restaurant columnist Luisa Ruocco.
The staff seems disinterested
If more than five minutes have passed without anyone asking you what you would like to eat, or at least drink, it should be a red flag that you’ve come to the wrong place. A good server takes your drink orders as soon as you’ve settled in but when the front-of-house personnel seems to be disinterested or worse, bothered by your presence, “it is a sign that the management isn’t doing a good job running the restaurant,” says Michelle Stansbury, food blogger at Eat, Drink, Be SD.
If you feel unwelcomed from the very minute you set foot inside the restaurant, it’s a clear indication that the management and employees don’t value their customers so you should about-face and walk right back out the door. On the other hand, no matter how bad the service, avoid these 16 Things You Should Never Say to Customer Service.
