choire:

This is the worst thing in the history of worst things ever. A while back I very carefully put something on Twitter that was just “Overheard at X Restaurant: ‘Quote quote quote.’” Nothing scandalous! Just mildly sweet/amusing to me. And the next time I was at the sister restaurant of that place (a place I love very much, a very wonderful place), the (also totally wonderful) general manager (who I adore unreservedly) came to our table and was basically like, “Look out, tweeter, we’re on to you! We know when you say anything about us!” He was totally teasing me, I’m sure, which is totally within his rights.

The major outlier here is to confront deserved criticism it takes balls to call someone out. If you were to blog about X Restaurant in an unfavorable fashion they would just secretly hate you forever and never say a word. This would be beneficial for everyone involved, except for maybe your stomach which would have to fight all the extra dish soap they’d put in your Alfredo sauce.