Some Words

Since moving to Portland, I have been amazed by the reviews on Citysearch. So, really, this is not Portland’s professional reviews, or really any of the other sources of reviews. And this is not to say that the Citysearch in Minneapolis was full of well thought out and eloquent reviews. But maybe a fifth of the reviews here focus on perceived slights on the part of wait or service staff. This is more amazing to me because the general quality of the wait and service staff here seem to be almost eerily happy to be doing what they are doing. I do not pretend to understand why. However, this is not enough for the hypersensitive reviewers of Citysearch Portland. I have yet to understand why seemingly one in five reviewers seems to lack some basic level of empathy, and says that the food was good, but gives one star because the wait staff was not suitably obsequious.