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Also, the common people has awful taste, and is terrible at understanding a situation from another point of view.

This is why trip advisor is so useless, at least in France.

Between the vocal unhappy outliers and the happy idiots that think those french fries coming out of the freezer were delicious, the noise/signal ratio is abysmal.

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When I lived in Colorado Springs, my ex and I started only going to 2-star places for this reason, _especially_ if the biggest complaint was “bad service” or the restaurant “looked dirty”. Found a lot of great, minority-owned hole-in-the-walls this way. In a town where Panera Bread is 5-star to the white suburbanites, you gotta assume other places are the good ones.

For a moment I though you were talking about Michelin stars, and I got confused.

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