Post #732594 by tikiskip on Thu, Dec 4, 2014 5:10 PM

Good points Pete.

"but Three Dots is owned by Lettuce Entertain You, which is an absolutely MASSIVE hospitality group in Chicago. So they're promoting their businesses at a corporate level that is out of reach of most small business owners (like the Fongs at Chef Shangri-La, or the Sacharski's at Hala Kahiki) That doesn't make them better or worse than anyone else... but there's certainly a financial, palm-greasing advantage there."

And that's the deal with the hot dog joint I was talking about too.
My wife works for a company that pays her ALL day, every day, to do nothing but find ways to make this
company she works for do better on lists just like these.
Hale Kahiki does not do much PR I would bet.

BUT we don't have to buy into that S#^t.
This day and age is all about Public perception, it's why people stand in line for a crappy well, anything.
Too bad, the real days of good restaurants and bars are soon going away.
THIS is why I go to small places that have been around for a long time, there's no hype, they are busy
because it's a great place and they really care about the customer, not because of some list or PR.

A bad review may have helped take down The Tropical Bistro here in Columbus, too bad, not a
great place but they were trying and would have been great or at least close.
So that's what this PR world does, it kills small places that care and have a heart and lets the
big hospitality groups kill the small.

If your product sucks you should die large or small I should add.