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so Google Maps constantly asks me questions about places I’ve been. Now, I use Maps sometimes, like when I’m looking for a place, and so I actually contribute kind of a lot, because I like there to be information like, the hours a place is open, and whether they serve alcohol, and whether there’s outdoor seating, etc. Because here’s the thing: Every restaurant has a totally shitty website. If there’s a menu, it’s out of date and a PDF. If there’s a phone number you’re goddamn lucky. If it works you’ve basically won the lottery.
So I contribute a lot to Maps.
So it constantly pops up questions to ask me about places I’ve been. A lot of times it’s annoying, like I walk by a place and Google wants to know if it has a handicapped-accessible restroom. Google, if I’d been in there, I’d look and find out, but I literally just walked past. (I actually like that it asks about handicap accessibility and gender-neutral bathrooms; I’ve started paying attention and mentioning those features if I review a place, because yes, that is exactly what this sort of thing ought to be for. If it asks me about a place I’m currently eating in, I’ll actually get up and go look for either of those things, because yes, that’s important, and yes, that’s worthy. And yes, the owners often read the reviews, so if I mention it, they might fix it. More likely than if I don’t!)
Also it won’t stop asking me to add the selfies I take in the bathroom mirror at work to my workplace’s page, and I can’t express how goddamn terrified I am that somehow I’m going to click “yes” one of these times. Christ almighty. Anyway.
[wiser folks than I: is there a way to tell Google never ask me about this place again, because I need to do that. Clicking “no” every time for literally hundreds of days has done nothing. So much for fucking algorithms.]
But here’s what gets me:
Every restaurant I go to, it asks me, “Is there an all-you-can-eat option here?”
… Am I some kind of snob? I literally could not tell you when the last time was that I went somewhere with an all-you-can-eat option. I honestly cannot remember. I surely must have, but like. Not this decade. I go out to eat probably once a week, ok less lately but sometimes it’s that much and I have basically never encountered a buffet.
Mm, over the summer there was one at a special occasion at the BBQ restaurant near the farm, but I’d still answer “no” if Google asked, because it was a special occasion and not normally offered.
Other than that… I would not think that a buffet was a common enough occurrence to warrant it being asked about every fucking restaurant, including a number of places that don’t serve food.
It’s also popped up a variant, “Is there an all-you-can-drink option here?”
I have never encountered that in my life at a public event. At a closed party, yes. Sometimes there are open bars.
But I can’t even– what kind of bar has just– an open bar? on like? a Tuesday or whatever?????
Do I have that abnormal a dining out life experience???
This post brought to you by Google Maps just popping up that question on my phone about a restaurant a quarter-mile from my house that I haven’t actually gone into in about six months but that I drive past every day. … Thanks?
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so Google Maps constantly asks me questions about places I’ve been. Now, I use Maps sometimes, like when I’m looking for a place, and so I actually contribute kind of a lot, because I like there to be information like, the hours a place is open, and whether they serve alcohol, and whether there’s outdoor seating, etc. Because here’s the thing: Every restaurant has a totally shitty website. If there’s a menu, it’s out of date and a PDF. If there’s a phone number you’re goddamn lucky. If it works you’ve basically won the lottery.
So I contribute a lot to Maps.
So it constantly pops up questions to ask me about places I’ve been. A lot of times it’s annoying, like I walk by a place and Google wants to know if it has a handicapped-accessible restroom. Google, if I’d been in there, I’d look and find out, but I literally just walked past. (I actually like that it asks about handicap accessibility and gender-neutral bathrooms; I’ve started paying attention and mentioning those features if I review a place, because yes, that is exactly what this sort of thing ought to be for. If it asks me about a place I’m currently eating in, I’ll actually get up and go look for either of those things, because yes, that’s important, and yes, that’s worthy. And yes, the owners often read the reviews, so if I mention it, they might fix it. More likely than if I don’t!)
Also it won’t stop asking me to add the selfies I take in the bathroom mirror at work to my workplace’s page, and I can’t express how goddamn terrified I am that somehow I’m going to click “yes” one of these times. Christ almighty. Anyway.
[wiser folks than I: is there a way to tell Google never ask me about this place again, because I need to do that. Clicking “no” every time for literally hundreds of days has done nothing. So much for fucking algorithms.]
But here’s what gets me:
Every restaurant I go to, it asks me, “Is there an all-you-can-eat option here?”
… Am I some kind of snob? I literally could not tell you when the last time was that I went somewhere with an all-you-can-eat option. I honestly cannot remember. I surely must have, but like. Not this decade. I go out to eat probably once a week, ok less lately but sometimes it’s that much and I have basically never encountered a buffet.
Mm, over the summer there was one at a special occasion at the BBQ restaurant near the farm, but I’d still answer “no” if Google asked, because it was a special occasion and not normally offered.
Other than that… I would not think that a buffet was a common enough occurrence to warrant it being asked about every fucking restaurant, including a number of places that don’t serve food.
It’s also popped up a variant, “Is there an all-you-can-drink option here?”
I have never encountered that in my life at a public event. At a closed party, yes. Sometimes there are open bars.
But I can’t even– what kind of bar has just– an open bar? on like? a Tuesday or whatever?????
Do I have that abnormal a dining out life experience???
This post brought to you by Google Maps just popping up that question on my phone about a restaurant a quarter-mile from my house that I haven’t actually gone into in about six months but that I drive past every day. … Thanks?
(Your picture was not posted)
