Journal Guidelines/Template

While your posts should be in a style that fits to your personal writing style and your personal tastes (no pun intended!), it would make things easier if we had at least a standard form to fill out at the top of each post. Here is a sample post with what I think are good ideas. Of course we can edit this and make changes as we go along if things aren't suiting our purposes.

 
Name: Name of the restaurant visited
Date Visited: Date you visited the restaurant, if visit spans multiple days, list the date the visit started
Time Visited: Time you first arrived at the restaurant
     Wait: time spent waiting for a table. If you made a reservation or called ahead, state so. Time from the moment of arrival to the time seated should be counted here.


Total Price: Total price before taxes and gratuities should be used. This is to standardize across the different suburbs things are located in with differing tax rates/
     Price Breakdown: Mark separate items for posterity.
(entree, drinks, dessert, exclude tips)
 

(Subjective - Everything out of 7)
Ambiance: Evaluate everything about the atmosphere including cleanliness, music, noise level, decor etc.
Food Quality: How was the food? Was it a good temperature? Were the portions appropriate for the meal? How did it taste?
Service: How were you greeted? Were the waitstaff attentive and courteous? Were the any problems? If so, were they resolved satisfactorily?
Value: Did you feel that you got a good value for what you paid?
Overall: Overall impression. 1 = poor, 4 = average, 7 = superior. 1's and 2's we will probably not visit again, 3-5 are those that are ok but nothing special, 6's and 7's are places that we would definitely want to go back to. Note that this section is not intended to be an average of the other sections!!!


That's it for the heading, now complete the rest of your entry here!