Bolong T.
Yelp
Last Saturday, we parked at Ivar's parking lot, browsing reviews on Yelp to see whether to dine here, and eventually decided to walk around this little plaza before making a conclusion.
Once we got off the car, a lady who had been patrolling around cried at us, saying something about 500 dollars. We initially thought she was homeless person begging for money, except the amount was too large. But then she started to make phone calls. We kinda realized she might be calling a towing company. Apparently, this restaurant was too unfriendly to dine in. The minute we drove away, a towing truck came, and towed away the only other car in the parking lot.
Above was our premature experience with Ivar.
Fun fact:
1. The lady hadn't asked whether we were their customer before shouting at us. She could be either a. too lack of confidence in their food, or, b. not welcoming customers at all. Either way, she should not be a professional employee of this restaurant. Or, was she trained to do so?
2. Besides her own suv, there were the only two vehicles in their parking lot, in Saturday evening, which might be both the reason and the outcome of the fact that, instead of having customers to serve, this restaurant had more free time to spend in the parking lot preventing people from being their customers.
3. My previous review was deleted by Yelp without any notification. My essay got lost without a backup. Even Douban under strong censorship messages a copy before deleting content. Angrily, I went through the policy, which says a review can be removed for being either from a competitor or irrelevant with experience. Mine was apparently relavent, unless parking lot is not part of this restaurant, in which case cars shouldn't have been towed away in the first place.
4. To make my review more "relevant", I have to depict the mentality I had before getting off the car to sound like a potential customer. It can be the fact or made up. You won't know, just like you won't know how many bad reviews have been deleted by Yelp to make this restaurant stay above 3.5 and ironically, this not-too-low score, in turn, gave this restaurant a chance of being considered by us, at their parking lot, that Saturday evening.