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The role of a food critic

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Alma, May 25, 2017.

  1. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I don't know if it's still there, but he used to have a sandwich place on the little Riverwalk area there. It was about the best $8 lunch you could imagine.
     
  2. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

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  3. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    "Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants, and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants good food."

    Fixed.
     
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  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    "The table near the window complained about their food."
    "The customer is always right."
    "But, sir, they're...MILLENNIALS."
    "Never mind. The customer is 100 percent wrong, and I hate them with all my heart."
     
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  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    When a guy at my office went to the Noma in Denmark or wherever the fuck it is, it was the talk of the office for like three weeks. I'm surprised they didn't carry him off on their shoulders from work after he got back.

    So, yeah, among the foodie idiots who read the NYT, I'm sure this was extremely notable.
     
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  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I've been in enough press boxes in my time to pretty confidently say that, between restaurants and the sports writers critiquing them, the restaurants aren't the ones getting the serving sizes wrong.
     
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  7. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    meanwhile, foodie is an irksome word...
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I honestly felt like I was supposed to send the guy a "congratulations" card or something.
     
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  9. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Of all the inane terms and phrases that have popped up recently, "foodie" is definitely one of the worst, in my opinion.
     
  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    It's not a great story, but I don't quite agree with your takeaway.

    What would adapting look like? Converting restaurants to get rid of waiters so people don't have to tip? Condensing the menu so it mirrors Five Guys? Moving to a Blue Apron system?

    At some point, it's not really adapting. It's a different thing entirely, and giving it an entirely different name.
     
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  11. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Serving better food?
     
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  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Take Red Robin. I like a chicken sandwich a couple times a month. I'll take Red Robin's fried chicken sandwich and fries over chik fil a every day. It's a much better chicken sandwich. They're better fries, too.

    But I gotta sit down at Red Robin, I gotta wait for someone to serve me, I gotta tip that person, I gotta ask for the fries thrice because Red Robin waiters constantly forget to bring one basket and I gotta deal with some kid screaming about his balloon that floated to the top of the restaurant.

    So I don't go to Red Robin. I am not a millennial
     
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