A friend keeps a significantly long blacklist of places he will not return to. A business can qualify with anything from food poisoning to not providing a robust-enough greeting when my friend enters the establishment. It doesn’t take much for a business to get on his list, and once a business is on, there is no coming back. New employees, new owner, different location — doesn’t matter. We used to argue with him that it was a specific employee at a specific time of day, and did he notice the million other people the employee was trying to serve at the same time? They should at least get a return visit to determine whether the offense was an isolated occurrence. Continue reading 'Local business blacklist'»