The Makings of Great Restaurants

Eating out is more than just getting a meal, it is about enjoying the atmosphere and knowing you're in for a great treat. Here's what people expect from a great eating establishment and what separates good from great restaurants.

Eating out should be a memorable experience and not because you had to rush your date to the emergency room and have her stomach pumped after contracting food poisoning but because you had the type of meal you can brag about the next day.
Eating out isn’t cheap but it’s not just the cost of your meal you’re paying for. You are also paying for the atmosphere of the restaurants you eat at. You’re paying to enjoy the art work on the walls, listen to the soft sounds of jazz in the background and be waited on by servers who don’t forget your there. If you have kids, you have to pay for daycare to enjoy time out with just your spouse so you can enjoy being adults in a kid free zone once in a while. If you’re single you still have to pay for gas, a nice outfit and everything else associated with a night out on the town and dating. You are making an investment in other words in that restaurant to help make your evening out special.

You can usually tell what restaurants are good and which aren’t by how hard they are to get into. It’s not unheard of for finer diner establishments to be booked up for months in advance by diners who are anxious to enjoy not only one of their mouthwatering meals but to enjoy the atmosphere that comes with the eating experience.

Sometimes you get lucky and you happen on one of these undiscovered gems before it becomes impossible to get into and if you have been one of the early patrons of one of these restaurants you have probably helped to launch them into fame by your visits and your constant bragging to friends and family and probably still get in when nobody else can. Most successful restaurants admit they became well known based on word of mouth just as much if not more than because of paid advertising and they remember the customers who helped launch them.

But the real difference between a great restaurant and a good one is subtle, and it’s enough to keep a business from ever launching across that line of greatness. A restaurant that is good one day and mediocre the next based on who’s cooking is a restaurant that isn’t seeking greatness and no matter how nice the atmosphere is, will never find its self-launched over the top.

The patron is what makes or breaks it in the end. The restaurant can offer what it can in regards to great food and a titillating atmosphere but if it lacks that wow factor than it won’t get “that” reputation or the repeat business and without those things a restaurant is just another place to eat but not the kind of place you write home about.

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