Corporate does quality [restaurant review]
Urban Plates’ partially enclosed patio offers comfort and distancing. Photos Many years ago I worked at a company that did business with a commercial printer. It was here I first saw a tattered sign by the counter that read, “Good, fast, or cheap – pick any two.” When we came in with a request for something outrageous, like a thousand color brochures to be printed and folded by the next day, the owner jerked his thumb in the direction of the sign to indicate that it might be possible, but we weren’t going to like the bill. The sign seems to date from the 1930s, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that slogan scrawled on a shop wall in Pompeii. There are exceptions in the restaurant world, because I can call to mind many examples of good fast food that was kind to my wallet. This was usually from mom and pop cafés, farmers market stalls, and other budget dining emporia rather than from corporate entities. Little local places think more about pleasing their customers and less about pleasing the cash counters in the accounting department. Corporate restaurants in shopping malls aren’t places you’d expect to find this experience, because the rents are generally expensive and menus…
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