“Practically all the bad restaurants I’ve ever been to had this.”

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"Yep, if the place can't be bothered to clean what you can see, they're definitely not cleaning what you can't see."

"Some restaurants will have big menus, but if it's focused on one cuisine, it might be fine because it may just be different combinations of a few ingredients, like in some Chinese restaurants. Like braised beef with rice, with noodles, in soup, etc., could all be different menu items, but should all be decent.

If we're talking a restaurant with Chinese food, sushi, pizza, and, like, hamburgers, guaranteed that place ain't good."

"Ewww, I can feel it now. Slightly sticky, slightly wet. And there is a huge spot they clearly missed. Ughhh."

"Not greeting a table or bringing drinks promptly is always a bad sign. I waited tables through my 20s, and the rule of thumb was to greet tables within two minutes, even if it’s just to say I’ll be another few minutes…and to NEVER make people wait for their addictive fluids: coffee and alcohol."

"I took my in-laws to this new restaurant about a year in. I loved this place's other location and went when this one first opened, and it was so nice and good! We built it up BIG time as this really nice place. Went in and got a shock. Opened the menu, and there are hairs. Like, dog hair and people hair in every page of every menu. Every crease had built up gunk you could scrape off. We just got up and left. They were closed down two months later."

"My ex's dad wanted some food from this one fast-food restaurant. The one next to it had lines of cars in the drive-thru. The one he wanted did not. His family kept telling him not to, and he got sick."