Yeah. I've eaten at a lot of local places simply due to location. Like they were in a building near a class I was taking, or near a friend's house I go to often or whatever. Let me tell you that in general that's a
bad idea
. 4 out of 5 of my truly terrible dining experiences I can think of were in local places. And that's just not a risk I like taking anymore.
The 5th was Taco Bell. Not that I hate Taco Bell on the whole but I'll never trust a burrito from there again. Course there is some variation even among chains. Like I think my local Subway is pretty awful (not "all time terrible dining experience" awful, but not a place I'd go to eat), but I've definitely lived near good Subways in the past.
I also feel like local places are a bit more susceptible to employee turnover screwing em over. Like there was this local Chinese place I went to a lot. I actually liked them a lot. Then for a while they became terrible and I stopped going there. Then they closed down for a while, re-opened, and became good again. I don't recall anything like that ever happening with a chain-- I mean, it probably does, but I feel like the higher standardization on preparation procedures would probably cushion the impact of things like that. Granted I don't eat at restaurants all that often, especially not anymore, so I don't have a huge sample size or anything, but yeah.
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