How I rate the food I ate

Ok, so how do I rate the food that I ate?

Categories
First, let's make it simple. I'll look at the restaurant based on the following categories:

1. Quality of Food
You can't be a good dining place if your food is not good. That's the most basic requirement of any dining place. The food must be good.

If not, then everything else doesn't matter. You may have the best service, nice looking place or gold plated cutlery, but if your food sucks, don't expect us to come back.

2. Quality of Service
Most of the time, we give a big tip if the service is good. That is when you don't wait so long for the food, waiters are attentive to your needs, the place is clean and so are the waiters!

Although it's not a custom in Singapore to give tips, leaving the restaurant with a big smile is something we (and the resto management) always want.

3. Ambiance
We were taught in cooking school that if it's fine dining, all the cutlery should be in place. If it's buffet, just one set. If it's ala carte, they give you cutlery to match your orders.

Simply put, the restaurant should be what they say they are.

4. Price
When was the last time you had food so great but only paid so little?

Me, I just had one last weekend. It wasn't cheap, but that doesn't mean I've been cheated. It's all about how we perceive value.

This category is quite difficult to rate since it's about my personal view. However, I'll do my best to be fair.

Scoring

Now that I'm done with the categories, here is how I'll do the rating:

Each category will automatically have a rating of 10. So each restaurant automatically has 40 points.

If I have a complaint, that specific category gets a minus 1 point. So if I have lots of complaints, that would be a lot of minuses up to a lowest score of 0 for that category.

There!.. now that I've laid out my rules, let's get it on!