In the last few months my family and I have been out to dinner on three separate occasions and hare are my observations. They were a local diner, an Olive Garden and another local family owned.
1) The service has been terrible...the restaurants were quiet even for a friday night. Food arrived cold, or lukewarm.
2) the food quality was poor at best.... OG was standard fare and thrown on the plate, the others were Sysco staples, unimproved.
3) the prices were high for what we got.... In each case we spent $70 + tip for a meal for two adults and two children.
We are done with “out”....the economy is that bad, the workers simply don’t care anymore. The restaurant business is dying a slow death with less than 30 hours per employee. Nobody gives a damned anymore.
It seems to me that there has been an across-the-board decline in the quality of restaurant service in the past couple of years, and I think it’s because employers are cutting back on staff.