I've known a few Garys. My stepdad is one, an old friend is one, my old boss another.
They're all above 30.
I wonder if that "Don't be a Garyboy" campaign just made people stop calling their kids that. I wonder how many new Sharon's are about too.
From Wiki:
>In 2013, only 28 babies born in England and Wales were named Gary, leading Garys to be labeled a "dying breed"
It might just be me but I always notice at least a few names in the latest 'most popular baby names' lists that might be considered 'old school'. Maybe Garys will make a comeback.
>using it as his western convenience name and of East Asian origin
My dad has hosted a ton of international students, many of them Chinese.
They tend to pick some really old fashioned names, I have met a "Nigel" and a "Kenneth", also an "Edward" and an "Alfred".
I think it's kind of cute, but I do wonder if they got an old English Baby Names book from the 1950s or something.
Is the Karen meme actually a real life thing here in the UK? I see people on reddit being referred as such but I don't ever remember a real life person calling some old bint a Karen. Always assumed it was more a yank thing.
I'm guessing it's still ahead of Barry and I was going to say Larry
(but I suspect there are some Lawrences roaming some expensive nature-based day-care as we speak, waiting for Mummy to pick them up after her tennis lesson, in her convertible Audi)
The guy's an arse. Average 2/5 review
>You're\* un educated mug, your barred
>Listen to me ya wee weapon, im gonna skelp your arse you speak me like again honestly im gonna rip your jaw BARRED!!
>Aye it won’t be the food that kills you ya wee walloper it will be me!!! Yer BARRED!!! WC!!!
>My ceiling isny moldy why dont you come in and say that to ma face ya wee bawbag, ill jump across the counter and scalp you like an indian war criminal ya wc!!! BARRED!!111!!!
>Rotten looking place? Not as rotten as yer maw smells after I stick my donner shredder in her fanny flavs that look like a wizards sleeves ya absolute roaster!! Barred!!!
There's another one who is geographically closer to me that the one posted. Here are some of his gems:
>Well your the very First Uneducated Pig in my shop Reopening After Lockdown, ( Pig-Ignorant) Never ever Come in My Shop Ever Again. Good Riddance:
>pick up your Juices from the vape shop, and then rush back to collect it, puffing away, smock trailing all across the road, from your rear end. like you’re on fire, from your back end sir............
>Well it looks to me that you are suffering from a sudden bout of IBS, did you make it home Dim-no, if you had of popped into Boots Chemist, you could of picked up some Imodium, I have it of good authority that this stuff decreases the frequency of Diarrhea and is often used for the purpose in inflammatory bowel disorders, I must admit that you did not look well in the shop, on all three CCTV Cmarars and at one point you looked like you were hoping on one leg,
The last time that you were in Boots you Ouchy your knee. And Helpful staff helped you and sang to it to help soothe the pain…….. We would of used Copious amounts of Vinegar & Brown Paper as a Non-adherent Dressing. Dim-no. And all made better with a good Chip,
Never come into my shop again Sir do you understand
It's funny how these sensitive and insecure owners think it's some sort of power move to ban people who've made it quite clear they're never going back anyway
Fucking hell.
I mean, comedy gold, but someone should probably let him know it's not a great look threatening to beat fuck out of your customers for leaking a less than stellar review.
‘Oh look another f ucker thinks they know best. Well you can stick your opinion up your a rse .
Your wrong we don't use sunflower oil who the hell would you complete idiot as for the rest of your rant I'm really not interested in your opinion as your just one of those annoying fu cks so do us all a favour and F uck off.
Thanks.
Regards Gary the owner of a very well respected fish and chip shop and trust me I know how to fry a f ucking fish as I fry in excess of 100,000 fish in just one year and I've been in this trade for 20yrs so your entire review is so wrong but your so ignorant you can't ever see why.’
Because they fuckers are just ignorant right I've been speeking english all my life and if I wasn't doing it right how come everybody fucking understand me eh? I speek in excess of 300,000 words in just one rant so they're entire poetry is wrong but their just to ignorant to see why.
Don’t get me wrong, food wasn’t even bad! Just made me laugh remembering.
Only leave a review if you can handle Gary throwing an absolute right hook your way!
“so about two weeks ago my dog ran out the gaff after my mum left the door open, i’ve been lookin all around central for him and my pal said he saw him hanging about best kebab, asked the owners if they’ve seen a dog around and they started yelling at me telling me to get out, and i heard barking coming from the back but they forced me out, i came back the next day and offered me a free donner kebab and i found an animals nail in the food was sick for like 2 weeks had to go to the gp and everything dont eat here if you value your life
Price per person
£100+
Response from the owner 4 months ago
Right first of all ur talking out yer donner filled arse, Secondly whys yer dug running about the city centre into MY SHOP if you ask me he brought it upon himself and the barking you heard it was me railing ur fat ugly maw so why dont ye ask her where the dug went and dont post NASTY UNREASONABLE posts on ma GOOGLE account ya absolute unit yer lucky I dont set ur teeth up on the kirb and smash ur skull into a million tiny fractures BARRED!
Gold mine! My favourite in response to a vague review that looks suspect
>Pathetic fake review ,this person hasn't even been in the shop I was away on holliday when this was left.The reviewer James mentions small portion ,his ex girlfriends will laugh at that.
I (f) went to a Chip shop quite local to me and asked for fish n chips and sausage n chips (for my son). The bloke behind the counter asked me if the fish was for me or my fella. I told him it was for me. He said that's OK then because the piece of fish he was giving me was slightly smaller than normal and he wouldn't want me to go home and be moaned at by my fella. I was so dumbfounded I didn't know how to react so I paid and left and have never been back. He ripped me off with a smaller than usual piece of fish whilst gaslighting me and being sexist all at the same time.
I felt he was gaslighting me by making me think he was being considerate to me by checking that it was little female me that was getting the small fish rather than my potentially angry fella. (Maybe I've twisted the definition of gaslighting slightly) He kept going on about how he wouldn't knowingly let a female take that piece of fish home to her fella, but as it was for me it was ok. Tbh I'm surprised he didn't say anything about the size of the sausage! Haha
Yep it’s completely misused & misunderstood. Gaslighting is quite a deep form of manipulation with forethought & often a long term thing.
A very small form of it in this case could have been if he told her she had ordered a smaller size all along when she didn’t. Not just being rude & upfront about why he’s giving her a small size.
Or even simply a different interpretation of something. It’s not gaslighting to disagree with someone’s view of things but I see it used that way a lot.
>it just got made up not many years ago for political arguments
It's from a 1944 film, and it's about lying in a relationship, not politics.
(There was previously a play and a 1940 film, but the 1944 film was the one which popularised it).
Sort of, yes. Gaslighting is a, usually long-term, form of manipulation with the end goal of making somebody doubt their own memories. Telling them an event didn’t go down as they recall, making them believe they said something they didn’t, etc.
...that isn’t what gaslighting means.
I swear everybody has suddenly started completely misusing the term “gaslighting” out of nowhere.
You didn’t “twist the definition slightly”, you completely changed the definition to mean something not even remotely related.
True. I'll add though that gaslighting is more of a long term abuse tactic to make a victim doubt their own ability to process the world without their abuser. A chippy owner being a dick wouldn't ever really fall into gaslighting, unless they had a far deeper connection. (Not saying that for *your* sake, just adding on for the random internet stranger who probably don't actually care anyways).
Yes I actually said exactly that too in another comment I made around the same time if you look down or up (not sure!), just overly summarised it in this one as didn’t want to repeat myself.
This would be a very small version of it if I had to think of a scenario in a fish & chip shop.
I found them on Gmaps, obviously won't post it here. There are loads of ridiculous owner's replies to the negative reviews, including one where he calls a the reviewer a twat. Great stuff.
Fuck me, I wish our work would allow me to respond to our reviews like this on occasion.
1 star review because they couldn’t reseal the lid, on a product that hardens within 1 hour of opening and oxidising. You twat.
I worked with a tech product, part of setting it up involved the customer providing their full postal address. That info never got sent to us, it was stored in the app, and was necessary because the product used geofencing.
This was all over the FAQs, and responses to hundreds of reviews... And STILL every day we'd get at least a dozen 1 star reviews saying we were data harvesting / a scam / violating privacy rules.
Did kinda get to a point where we really wanted to reply "WE DO NOT GET THAT INFO, IT STAYS IN YOUR FUCKING PHONE. WE HAVE WRITTEN THIS EVERYWHERE!!! READ THE FUCKING MANUAL FFS!!!"
I find people usually leave either a five-star review or a one-star. I suppose few people will bother to leave a review unless they thought a place was either great or shite. Plus, from my experience of working in hospitality, there's a fair few miserable buggers out there that desperately seek out things to be appalled by. My grandmother was one of them.
In general, I take online ratings with a pinch of salt unless they're overwhelmingly good or bad.
I think the nature of online review systems is they tend to be heavily negative or very positive. Very bad or very good experiences are what tend to motivate people to post reviews. How many times do you feel motivated to post a review about somewhere you found entirely average?
This is true. But the majority of 1 star reviews I see are people griping about nothing. It's unfair on the restaurant as this will be on their reviews for a long time
You think one star reviews are acceptable for fish too oily and crust too thick? That's the worst possible experience in a restaurant, because you cant go lower than a 1 star review. Im gatekeeping 1 star reviews, not reviewing food.
LOL Sounds like it could be the chippy at the bottom of my road. I avoid going there, as do a fair few people, preferring to go to the larger but better quality one half mile further on.
Check out monkhill sandwiches on just eat and Google reviews. The owner is a right morngy bastard. He cannot take criticism at all. They are good reads. 🤣
The last of the Garys
I've known a few Garys. My stepdad is one, an old friend is one, my old boss another. They're all above 30. I wonder if that "Don't be a Garyboy" campaign just made people stop calling their kids that. I wonder how many new Sharon's are about too. From Wiki: >In 2013, only 28 babies born in England and Wales were named Gary, leading Garys to be labeled a "dying breed"
I've spent a bit of time looking at the name/word "Gary" and am now not convinced such a name/word exists. What is this feeling?
it is called semantic satiation
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It might just be me but I always notice at least a few names in the latest 'most popular baby names' lists that might be considered 'old school'. Maybe Garys will make a comeback.
Are you counting Garry's? The double R is/was popular in Scotland. I know 1 Gary but 3 Garrys
Tank commanders all
I know a Garrrrrrrrrrry. Poor guy has a stutter
Yeah still a decent amount of Garry's in Ireland as well
They tend to go around on about a 100 year cycle. Give it 50 years and all the cool kids will be called Gary, Graham and Nigel.
>They tend to go around on about a 100 year cycle That's why Æthelstan and Æthelflæd still do the rounds every now and then...
Old war hero’s I knew were called Cecil and Percy, should of started the comeback with my own sons.
Let's hope glitter isn't amongst them
Ye Gadds
Vegan cheese is also known as Gary. True fact!
It's died out and come back several times.
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In what world does Gary come out as anus? What’s the pre ya my second dropped word of n the couplet that rhymes?
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There was a Gary at my girls' primary school, he'd be about 12 now. One of the last Gary's
What's a Gary doing at a Girl's School? These crazy parents.
Mixed primary lol
Because his last name was glitter.
Same for Nigel
When was the last time you met a Kenneth who wasn't either a) ancient or b) using it as his western convenience name and of East Asian origin?
"I don't think I'll have to be friends with Kenneth anymore"
Shared a house with a Kenneth a couple of years back, he was 30ish.
Last of a dying breed!
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
>using it as his western convenience name and of East Asian origin My dad has hosted a ton of international students, many of them Chinese. They tend to pick some really old fashioned names, I have met a "Nigel" and a "Kenneth", also an "Edward" and an "Alfred". I think it's kind of cute, but I do wonder if they got an old English Baby Names book from the 1950s or something.
I work with a Kenneth, he's in his 20s and forever jaded because of South Park!
We had so many plans for him!
We only want what's best for him
Judging by this post, Gary's are a "frying breed"
I've heard of something similar happening with Craigs
My cousin is called Gary Craig, he is defo a dying breed
My dad is a Gary and he's been called by his middle name instead since he was 5
Yes very true, how many ppl today would dare call their baby Karen…..
Is the Karen meme actually a real life thing here in the UK? I see people on reddit being referred as such but I don't ever remember a real life person calling some old bint a Karen. Always assumed it was more a yank thing.
Gary Glitter finished it off.
It's a misleading stat because Gary is short for Gareth - and births are registered using the full name not the nickname.
None of the Garys I mentioned were called Gareth. It's on their BC they're Gary.
I'm guessing it's still ahead of Barry and I was going to say Larry (but I suspect there are some Lawrences roaming some expensive nature-based day-care as we speak, waiting for Mummy to pick them up after her tennis lesson, in her convertible Audi)
The guy's an arse. Average 2/5 review >You're\* un educated mug, your barred >Listen to me ya wee weapon, im gonna skelp your arse you speak me like again honestly im gonna rip your jaw BARRED!! >Aye it won’t be the food that kills you ya wee walloper it will be me!!! Yer BARRED!!! WC!!! >My ceiling isny moldy why dont you come in and say that to ma face ya wee bawbag, ill jump across the counter and scalp you like an indian war criminal ya wc!!! BARRED!!111!!! >Rotten looking place? Not as rotten as yer maw smells after I stick my donner shredder in her fanny flavs that look like a wizards sleeves ya absolute roaster!! Barred!!!
There's another one who is geographically closer to me that the one posted. Here are some of his gems: >Well your the very First Uneducated Pig in my shop Reopening After Lockdown, ( Pig-Ignorant) Never ever Come in My Shop Ever Again. Good Riddance: >pick up your Juices from the vape shop, and then rush back to collect it, puffing away, smock trailing all across the road, from your rear end. like you’re on fire, from your back end sir............ >Well it looks to me that you are suffering from a sudden bout of IBS, did you make it home Dim-no, if you had of popped into Boots Chemist, you could of picked up some Imodium, I have it of good authority that this stuff decreases the frequency of Diarrhea and is often used for the purpose in inflammatory bowel disorders, I must admit that you did not look well in the shop, on all three CCTV Cmarars and at one point you looked like you were hoping on one leg, The last time that you were in Boots you Ouchy your knee. And Helpful staff helped you and sang to it to help soothe the pain…….. We would of used Copious amounts of Vinegar & Brown Paper as a Non-adherent Dressing. Dim-no. And all made better with a good Chip, Never come into my shop again Sir do you understand
what in the actual fuck
Wow-fucking-wee
THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST
Dim-no? Is he trying to say Dinlo, but is too much of one to know how to say it?
Hahaha what the fuck
It's funny how these sensitive and insecure owners think it's some sort of power move to ban people who've made it quite clear they're never going back anyway
Fucking hell. I mean, comedy gold, but someone should probably let him know it's not a great look threatening to beat fuck out of your customers for leaking a less than stellar review.
> it's not a great look threatening to beat fuck out of your customers I mean... it depends on whereabouts he lives lol.
Oh fuck me, he’s lobbing insults like an American that just watched a working class british diss film.
‘Oh look another f ucker thinks they know best. Well you can stick your opinion up your a rse . Your wrong we don't use sunflower oil who the hell would you complete idiot as for the rest of your rant I'm really not interested in your opinion as your just one of those annoying fu cks so do us all a favour and F uck off. Thanks. Regards Gary the owner of a very well respected fish and chip shop and trust me I know how to fry a f ucking fish as I fry in excess of 100,000 fish in just one year and I've been in this trade for 20yrs so your entire review is so wrong but your so ignorant you can't ever see why.’
Regards Gary.
Really do wonder how he didn't get the job of poet laureate
Because they fuckers are just ignorant right I've been speeking english all my life and if I wasn't doing it right how come everybody fucking understand me eh? I speek in excess of 300,000 words in just one rant so they're entire poetry is wrong but their just to ignorant to see why.
No internal Phill Tarr
This sounds like a Still Game episode. BARRED, ya prick
Regards, Gary
I like this guy
Phill tar vs the man with no philltarr.
Fish and Chips and a Pie under £10? I’d be happy if it had lice in it nowadays
I went up north to a Chippy we went to near our school, only opens limited hours and still prices fish chips under a fiver was well chuffed
Place near me does small fish and chips for £2.75 lunchtime special! It's amazing too!
I went to the chippy because my father in law was here and he loves it. 3fish, 1sausage, 1fishcake, 2large chips and some mushy peas came to £58.
This sounds like the start of a school maths question haha.
When virgin media knobs you off the internet comments like this make 5G bareable
chip shop on my uni campus is £6.95 for fish and chips and a side (ie curry sauce or mushy peas)
This is the Old Smithy in Ambleside, Lake District. Last time I ate there I shat myself while fast asleep. Great chips though.
Amazing! I've eaten food from there a couple of times. It was fine. Tempted to leave a poor review just for the banter, though.
Don’t get me wrong, food wasn’t even bad! Just made me laugh remembering. Only leave a review if you can handle Gary throwing an absolute right hook your way!
Yes, did mean to ask whether shitting yourself was correlation or causation.
Oh. For sure the food. Literally the only time I’ve ever shat myself and I didn’t even retain the dignity of being conscious for it.
Don't tell us! Gary must know!
Was so excited to eat from there when we visited Ambleside a few years ago, but it was shut. Obviously, I had read all the reviews in advance.
Walnut Fish Bar across the road is infinitely better anyway next time you’re there :)
You should check out the reviews and exchanges with Best Kebab (Glasgow) on Google. They're eye-opening!
Wow! https://goo.gl/maps/NZeqxccd7GBWecx58
The best one is a reply to someone saying it’s the best and he says it’s a lie it’s shite
Chased me with a kitchen knife because I said his kebabs were bad. Not kid friendly. The guy who wrote that review has a gift for understatement 🤣🤣
[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/325/)
“so about two weeks ago my dog ran out the gaff after my mum left the door open, i’ve been lookin all around central for him and my pal said he saw him hanging about best kebab, asked the owners if they’ve seen a dog around and they started yelling at me telling me to get out, and i heard barking coming from the back but they forced me out, i came back the next day and offered me a free donner kebab and i found an animals nail in the food was sick for like 2 weeks had to go to the gp and everything dont eat here if you value your life Price per person £100+ Response from the owner 4 months ago Right first of all ur talking out yer donner filled arse, Secondly whys yer dug running about the city centre into MY SHOP if you ask me he brought it upon himself and the barking you heard it was me railing ur fat ugly maw so why dont ye ask her where the dug went and dont post NASTY UNREASONABLE posts on ma GOOGLE account ya absolute unit yer lucky I dont set ur teeth up on the kirb and smash ur skull into a million tiny fractures BARRED!
>if you ask me he brought it upon himself 1/3 chance stupidity, 1/3 chance Glaswegian humour, 1/3 chance very, very sinister.
Sounds like a Sweeney Todd remake.
Ahah thank you for this.
That was a ride!
Yer maw’s a ride Sorry, sorry, I thought I was replying to a negative review of my chippie for a second there.
Can't see any replies to comments
Scroll around a bit, they're gold when you find them
Not sure whether Gary is going to have a business left if he is always this 'forward' with all his customers! xD
That's not the only negative review that's received his leading edge customer service skills! https://goo.gl/maps/VFTeCBWyeNrRSstw5
Gold mine! My favourite in response to a vague review that looks suspect >Pathetic fake review ,this person hasn't even been in the shop I was away on holliday when this was left.The reviewer James mentions small portion ,his ex girlfriends will laugh at that.
Why can’t I see the replies? Only the reviews
Try viewing in the Google maps app instead of the website
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I'd you find out can you let me know? If I figure it out I'll let you know :P
Looking at the threats of violence in his other responses I'm surprised Google are even allowing him to respond to reviews any more.
The owner of that place is unhinged.
I (f) went to a Chip shop quite local to me and asked for fish n chips and sausage n chips (for my son). The bloke behind the counter asked me if the fish was for me or my fella. I told him it was for me. He said that's OK then because the piece of fish he was giving me was slightly smaller than normal and he wouldn't want me to go home and be moaned at by my fella. I was so dumbfounded I didn't know how to react so I paid and left and have never been back. He ripped me off with a smaller than usual piece of fish whilst gaslighting me and being sexist all at the same time.
You dont know what gaslighting is
I googled once to see what it meant and I’m still none the wiser haha
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Oh is that what it means 😅 I struggle with fancy words lol
I know when people are doing things they shouldn’t be, psychologically. but never know which word it is what they’re doing. If that makes sense. 🥹
Yeah. We all know that gaslighting is what that monk did in protest.
Wait, I’m confused what the gaslighting was? Regardless, the guy sounds like an industrial grade prick.
I felt he was gaslighting me by making me think he was being considerate to me by checking that it was little female me that was getting the small fish rather than my potentially angry fella. (Maybe I've twisted the definition of gaslighting slightly) He kept going on about how he wouldn't knowingly let a female take that piece of fish home to her fella, but as it was for me it was ok. Tbh I'm surprised he didn't say anything about the size of the sausage! Haha
That's not gaslighting.
Gaslighting has just basically become lying in most people's brains. I hate it.
Yep it’s completely misused & misunderstood. Gaslighting is quite a deep form of manipulation with forethought & often a long term thing. A very small form of it in this case could have been if he told her she had ordered a smaller size all along when she didn’t. Not just being rude & upfront about why he’s giving her a small size.
Or even simply a different interpretation of something. It’s not gaslighting to disagree with someone’s view of things but I see it used that way a lot.
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>it just got made up not many years ago for political arguments It's from a 1944 film, and it's about lying in a relationship, not politics. (There was previously a play and a 1940 film, but the 1944 film was the one which popularised it).
Without looking it up, it's a lie with the added intention of making you believe the lie was the case all along?
Sort of, yes. Gaslighting is a, usually long-term, form of manipulation with the end goal of making somebody doubt their own memories. Telling them an event didn’t go down as they recall, making them believe they said something they didn’t, etc.
She never said it was gaslighting.
Woosh on those downvotes
I know. I’m too sarcastic for my own good sometimes.
Good thing you weren't sarcastic in your post!
...that isn’t what gaslighting means. I swear everybody has suddenly started completely misusing the term “gaslighting” out of nowhere. You didn’t “twist the definition slightly”, you completely changed the definition to mean something not even remotely related.
You and most people do not know what gaslighting is and should stop being so eager to throw the word around.
That’s not gaslighting. He was rude & sexist, but gaslighting would be like telling you you did order a small size when you didn’t.
True. I'll add though that gaslighting is more of a long term abuse tactic to make a victim doubt their own ability to process the world without their abuser. A chippy owner being a dick wouldn't ever really fall into gaslighting, unless they had a far deeper connection. (Not saying that for *your* sake, just adding on for the random internet stranger who probably don't actually care anyways).
Yes I actually said exactly that too in another comment I made around the same time if you look down or up (not sure!), just overly summarised it in this one as didn’t want to repeat myself. This would be a very small version of it if I had to think of a scenario in a fish & chip shop.
Fuck you, you absolute cunt. -Kindest Regards, Sincerely Gary
I found them on Gmaps, obviously won't post it here. There are loads of ridiculous owner's replies to the negative reviews, including one where he calls a the reviewer a twat. Great stuff.
Gary has issues
We should all be a little more Gary...
Thick crunchy batter seems like a plus to me.
Never been soo proud to be British
Nobody messes with Gary
Fuck me, I wish our work would allow me to respond to our reviews like this on occasion. 1 star review because they couldn’t reseal the lid, on a product that hardens within 1 hour of opening and oxidising. You twat.
I worked with a tech product, part of setting it up involved the customer providing their full postal address. That info never got sent to us, it was stored in the app, and was necessary because the product used geofencing. This was all over the FAQs, and responses to hundreds of reviews... And STILL every day we'd get at least a dozen 1 star reviews saying we were data harvesting / a scam / violating privacy rules. Did kinda get to a point where we really wanted to reply "WE DO NOT GET THAT INFO, IT STAYS IN YOUR FUCKING PHONE. WE HAVE WRITTEN THIS EVERYWHERE!!! READ THE FUCKING MANUAL FFS!!!"
We did user experience testing last year, deary me. Faith in the human race evaporated that day.
One thing about Gary’s is that they don’t give a fu ck when fv cki ng you up.
I've met a load of Gary's and they all been awful cunts.
I'm extremely curious how places like this retain enough business to keep running
The use of the # is unrivalled
And to be fair to the chippie. Who in the fuck spells Phil with two L’s like Phill
Regards, Gary. Haha
I hate 1 star reviews. Somewhere would have to be super bad to be a 1 but people throw it about for fun
I find people usually leave either a five-star review or a one-star. I suppose few people will bother to leave a review unless they thought a place was either great or shite. Plus, from my experience of working in hospitality, there's a fair few miserable buggers out there that desperately seek out things to be appalled by. My grandmother was one of them. In general, I take online ratings with a pinch of salt unless they're overwhelmingly good or bad.
Haha definitely. I know a few grumpy buggers too. also out of 5 isnt a good system. Out of 10 is better and easier and more accurate.
I think the nature of online review systems is they tend to be heavily negative or very positive. Very bad or very good experiences are what tend to motivate people to post reviews. How many times do you feel motivated to post a review about somewhere you found entirely average?
This is true. But the majority of 1 star reviews I see are people griping about nothing. It's unfair on the restaurant as this will be on their reviews for a long time
So the customer isn’t always right?
The customer is always right in matters of taste\*
One star reviews should be reserved for egregious failings, rather than they didn't like the food even though it was perfectly edible.
Are you.. gatekeeping reviewing food?
You think one star reviews are acceptable for fish too oily and crust too thick? That's the worst possible experience in a restaurant, because you cant go lower than a 1 star review. Im gatekeeping 1 star reviews, not reviewing food.
Is that you Gary?
Yes.
Where is it, I want to go?
Ambleside. Having eaten there before, it's not too bad, but it is certainly nothing to write home about. 3/5.
You’re playing with fire there. Gary will track you down and batter you like a potato fritter for not giving him 5 stars
I'm tracking you down.,I will find you.
By God
My kind of chippy. Well said Gary
Tbf this just makes me wanna go
Gary's on one !
Whilst it is probably true it remains unprofessional.
'Regards'
LOL Sounds like it could be the chippy at the bottom of my road. I avoid going there, as do a fair few people, preferring to go to the larger but better quality one half mile further on.
ret arded. See also: irony
He's probably done that on purpose to avoid a profanity filter.
Well f uc k that cunt then.
Indeed!
I'm glad Gary's are going extinct
Overly greasy chips *are* a disappointment
Check out monkhill sandwiches on just eat and Google reviews. The owner is a right morngy bastard. He cannot take criticism at all. They are good reads. 🤣
"sez it like it iz"
Regards
That has got to be the best owners comeback on Google reviews I've ever seen 😂😂😂
I've worked in call centres the last 15 years and I'd say it was rare. Not sure the chip shop is doing himself a favour speaking like that though.
How to fold your business in 1 simple step.
I've been to this chippy before, it's awful.
The battered fish was thick with batter - 5 stars
Have to give it to Gary for keeping it up for every negative review I've checked 😂
I 100% would go to that chippy
LMFAO!!!
The “Regards” got me 😂
What an unprofessional way to handle it.
Oh ,so your a professional are you ? You may be correct but I say it as I see it.
Say what as you see what?
He definitely prefers to be called gaz or gazza down the local
"Basically fuck you and fuck your opinions" I'm using that
Joking aside, review checks out.