Yelp or whatever... how much does food quality play into your review? What about other aspects such as service, experience, cost?
I put cost as a small factor simply because at Yelp there's already a $, $$, $$$, etc indicators. I do rate based on VALUE though. For a $$$$ restaurant you better not be serving me a McDonalds quality burger. So if you do give me a double cheeseburger for $40, I'll give you a 1/5 or whatever, but at the same time I don't think it's possible to go to a $ restaurant and get a Wagyu A5 Kobe Beef quality burger ok.
I'm asking because I'm debating with my college friend. Yeah back when we were cheap students, $4 lunches were awesome. Even though they might not be the best and for $4 it's probably damn good Thai food, I don't believe ANY of those places should get a 5 star. I mean quality wise it wasn't very good. Sure it could probably compete quite well with that $8 / dish Thai restaurant down the block, but $4 only goes so far. You can't get that great quality.
In particular, she wrote about a $0.99 boba (pearl milk tea)... sorry if your'e not Asian enough to get this, but to me any $0.99 boba place is roughly the same. Powdered drink. Sugar loaded, fake tasting, you know what I mean. I don't see how you can give this a 5/5 review even if it's cheap but decent boba. To me $3 boba where they brew the tea (and not use powder) is the way to go. Yes it might be 3x as much, but to me it's not emptying my wallet and even a poor college student can afford $3 boba (though not daily). My argument is that even if that $0.99 boba is great, it should not be a 5/5. To me the place is a 3/5, at best. I don't care how good of a steal a 39 cent cheeseburger is at McDonalds or those free tacos at Jack in the Box are, they just CAN'T be rated 5/5.
After all once you start rating dirt cheap crap for 5/5, how can you compare against the next level?
I'm going through some restaurants we ate in college, and some were dirt cheap and got 4.5/5. Looking back the food wasn't even that great. It was a great price and close by, but for like $3 more you could even get better food at a chain like Macaroni Grill. So to me those reviews make no sense and are just deceptive. It's annoying because when I search up my college town I'm trying to find some seriously good food there, not some cheapcrap college student stuff.
Maybe I'm trying too hard to be a foodie. Bottom line is that quality and taste of food comes in at like 80%. If you give me crappy value or terrible service you're going to be penalized, but giving me a BJ while serving me a $40 mcdonalds burger is not going to cut it.
I put cost as a small factor simply because at Yelp there's already a $, $$, $$$, etc indicators. I do rate based on VALUE though. For a $$$$ restaurant you better not be serving me a McDonalds quality burger. So if you do give me a double cheeseburger for $40, I'll give you a 1/5 or whatever, but at the same time I don't think it's possible to go to a $ restaurant and get a Wagyu A5 Kobe Beef quality burger ok.
I'm asking because I'm debating with my college friend. Yeah back when we were cheap students, $4 lunches were awesome. Even though they might not be the best and for $4 it's probably damn good Thai food, I don't believe ANY of those places should get a 5 star. I mean quality wise it wasn't very good. Sure it could probably compete quite well with that $8 / dish Thai restaurant down the block, but $4 only goes so far. You can't get that great quality.
In particular, she wrote about a $0.99 boba (pearl milk tea)... sorry if your'e not Asian enough to get this, but to me any $0.99 boba place is roughly the same. Powdered drink. Sugar loaded, fake tasting, you know what I mean. I don't see how you can give this a 5/5 review even if it's cheap but decent boba. To me $3 boba where they brew the tea (and not use powder) is the way to go. Yes it might be 3x as much, but to me it's not emptying my wallet and even a poor college student can afford $3 boba (though not daily). My argument is that even if that $0.99 boba is great, it should not be a 5/5. To me the place is a 3/5, at best. I don't care how good of a steal a 39 cent cheeseburger is at McDonalds or those free tacos at Jack in the Box are, they just CAN'T be rated 5/5.
After all once you start rating dirt cheap crap for 5/5, how can you compare against the next level?
I'm going through some restaurants we ate in college, and some were dirt cheap and got 4.5/5. Looking back the food wasn't even that great. It was a great price and close by, but for like $3 more you could even get better food at a chain like Macaroni Grill. So to me those reviews make no sense and are just deceptive. It's annoying because when I search up my college town I'm trying to find some seriously good food there, not some cheapcrap college student stuff.
Maybe I'm trying too hard to be a foodie. Bottom line is that quality and taste of food comes in at like 80%. If you give me crappy value or terrible service you're going to be penalized, but giving me a BJ while serving me a $40 mcdonalds burger is not going to cut it.