# Reasons not to try a restaurant.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-not-to-try-a-restaurant/385833>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-not-to-try-a-restaurant/385833 "2006-12-28T03:14:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-not-to-try-a-restaurant/385833/101 "2006-12-29T20:59:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac]  
A menu that only contains one ‘type’ of food-- like only seafood or only pasta. I like to be able to mull over different options when I decide what to order.  
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I’m just the opposite here. If a menu has too many options, I wonder how much of it is being microwaved. Some Iowa truck stops are like this – six or seven pages, hundreds of choices – how good (and fresh) can it be?

I’ll stay away from restaurants that have dirty windows and dirty glass doors.

There was an Asian place in Seattle that I loved, mostly for their Singapore Fried Rice Noodles, which I’d call ahead and order, and pick up on my way home. One Saturday night I talked hubby into going there. We sat down and ordered, and a giant cockroach crawled down the wall and walked across our table. We left. I never ate from there again, and never found noodles like that anywhere else.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-not-to-try-a-restaurant/385833/102 "2006-12-29T21:06:19Z")

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[QUOTE=AuntiePam]  
There was an Asian place in Seattle that I loved, mostly for their Singapore Fried Rice Noodles, which I’d call ahead and order, and pick up on my way home. One Saturday night I talked hubby into going there. We sat down and ordered, and a giant cockroach crawled down the wall and walked across our table. We left. I never ate from there again, and never found noodles like that anywhere else.  
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Happened to us once in a Denny’s. My mom was sitting on the opposite site of the booth from me and my brother when she noticed us both doing this: :eek:

There was a cockroach climbing over the top of the seat heading for her shoulder! Screaming ensued and we all rapidly departed.

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