Lunch disappointments

So there is a good Louisana-style cajun food place that I like in downtown... good food for good price. Today I revisited it and gosh I found out the box is smaller! I get less food for the price! Now this is sneaky way to reduce that operating cost. They may be thinking... ooh I am saving 10 cents off that rice for each order. Ooh soon I'll be able to buy a new car, etc. Let me tell you this, that will eventually hurt you. A bigger box with a couple spoons more of rice make happy coming-back customers. You save 10 cents this time, but you will lose $6+ for each customer lost, Ok?

Non-Panda Chinese restaurants have become almost extinct in downtown. There is a new one. I tried it once and not going back. Ok the restaurant itself doesn't have glorious decorations like Panda, it is even gloomy and feels dirty. Come on, don't save by using 10 watts lightbulbs. Light please. Let me try the food... First, it is in a small package, ok, roughly equivalent to Panda. But it tastes poor! Come on, if a Chinese person is to open up a Chinese restaurant to compete with Panda you better can do at least as good as those non-Chinese chefs. Go TASTE their food. Compare with yours. If you can't do better than this then don't bother starting a restaurant business and please contemplate why Chinese can't do better Chinese food than non-Chinese in that gloomy dirty place heading toward bankruptcy.

To win, there is a simple formula: fill up your customers stomach with good food, and don't charge more than $6 or $7. I may actually BUY a pop if it is less than $1.50. Work on food first. For those who can afford it, get good decorations, at least good lightbulbs.