☆Restaurant Reviews: Written and Visual

HEY GUYSS!!!

Hows everyone spending their winter break so far?

As for me, I'm currently back in Shizuoka and all I have been doing is eating and watching TV...

What a great way to get chubby lol

My high school is hosting a Seijinshiki on January 4th so I can't wait to reunite with all of my friends back from high school.. :D


So.... I need something to put me back in the road of reality so I will analysis the blog and the video about the restaurant evaluation that we were given in our last IE class.







So first, me and my partner was given an article called "Bubba Gump Shirm Co, restaurant review: A cavernous, deep-fried, hokey simulacrum"
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/bubba-gump-shrimp-co-restaurant-review-a-cavernous-deepfried-hokey-simulacrum-9901411.html




Some people may recognize the title but "Bubba Gumps" is one of most famous and commonly seen movies in the United States. 

There are restaurants in the United States and also in Japan that has this movie as a theme and serve dishes that are or suits to the movie. 


Through out the article the author not only criticize the restaurant but criticize the movie as the whole. For instance the author mentions, "If you haven't seen the film Forrest Gump, skip this first bit. In fact, skip the whole film. It's dreadful. Mawkish, faux-serious – surely one of the worst 'good' movies in the canon. "
Also the author mentions " If you haven't already eaten in Bubba Gump, skip that too. It's not a restaurant. It's a cavernous, laminated, wipe-down, deep-fried, hokey simulacrum of a restaurant, sucking up shoals of tourists in the catering equivalent of industrial fishing." criticizing the restaurant as well. 


☆Does the reviewer show any special "insider" knowledge of the chefs or the restaurants's plans for the future?
The reviewer does not show any special insider knowledge. about the restaurant or about the chef. That is due to the reason that all the reviewer mentions is his criticism and hatred towards the restaurant and the food that are served. 


☆What is the writing style of the review?
I thought the reviewer's idea towards the restaurant is very simple and to the point. He is stating his view about how Bubba Gumps is the last restaurant on his recommendation list. From this it can be portrayed that his visit in the Bubba Gumps was very unpleasant one. 


☆Does the reviewer include a convenient grid?
No, the reviewer does not include a convenient grid that informs the reader about the location, the price and the information about the restaurant. However when the reviewer is informing how the food that he ordered was unpleasant, he includes the price of the dish in pounds. 


☆What additional information can you find out about the restaurant from their website?
What information that i found out about the restaurant from their website was that this restaurant is located in all over the world. Other than that, what the reviewer mentioned in the article was correct. Especially about how the restaurant has the movie as a theme but there is nothing that from the movie that fits into the restaurant except about shrimp. 


☆Based on the review, would you and your partner like to try this restaurant?
I have been to this restaurant twice and unlike the reviewer my visit there was very pleasant and I was very satisfied with the food that was served. So if I was given an opportunity to go there again, i would love to go there. However, I would not want to go there if I had to make a decision whether to go there or not by just reading this review. 






The video that my partner and I were given to evaluate on is called "Omaha Restaurant Spoofs Negative Yelp Reviews"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cXJf3aVUQ


☆What is focused on in the review?
The video focuses on a restaurant located in Omaha called Block 16. They are one of the most popular restaurants in town. However they sometimes get a bad review that sometimes hurts their feelings. This video focuses on what the owner does with the bad reviews that they get and turning to a laugh. 


☆How does it differ from the written review in presentation and content? What does have it have in common among these two?
The differences among these two review is that the written review was too biased. It just stated his idea and thoughts about the restaurant, movie, and the food. While the video focused more on what the owners and managers are doing with the bad review that they sometimes get about the store. 


☆Are chefs, owners, managers, or restaurant staff featured in the video?
Both the chefs and owner is featured in the video. I do not think in this case their appearance had any thing to do with the providing the information about the restaurant nor making it too biased. That is because they are just practically answering the interview about their experience about getting a bad review of their restaurant but just making a laugh about of it from those by making a video. 


☆What criticisms do you have of the video?
I do not have any criticism towards the video. I thought it was very unique and very funny in a way that owners of the restaurant are taking this action about the bad reviews that they sometimes get.