Posted by kai on January 28, 1999 at 00:01:57:
In Reply to: Re: Recipes posted by cookfan on January 27, 1999 at 03:43:31:
"... but help them live in
: your customers' minds by letting your (former) restaurant pass
: them along, unless you are moving close by in town. Then, take
: them with you. I've deserted a few restaurants (or, at least
: certain menu items) because they still advertise "such and such"
: recipe, with no clue. (Greek salad dressing is not tziziki, for
: example, just because tzisiki is a Greek thing for pita bread.)"
I had this exact experience. Great little Greek place; they sold;
and now the once wonderful Greek salad dressing was replaced with
tzaziki (sp?) which is good, but *not* salad dressing. Because I speak
only as a patron, my feeling is that the menu MUST change if the
new people can't duplicate what patrons are used to. On the flip
side, it speaks well of a chef who leaves that favorite recipe for
the new chef to duplicate; hey, maybe the restaurant will again
change hands and want to hire that (previous) chef back.
If that chef re-locates out of my traveling range, should I be
deprived of ever experiencing that again? Some chefs probably say
yes, but most patrons would say no.
fussy patron,
kai