While visiting Salt lake city I was looking for a vegetarian restaurant that offered a variety of comfort foods because my family and I are vegetarian.
I started by searching for the top rated vegetarian restaurants in Salt lake city. This has been my first time visiting, so I resorted to using google. After searching for vegetarian options, I came across a long list of restaurants in the area. After browsing through that list I saw many delicious options, such as Zest kitchen & Bar, All Chay, and Buds, but only one offered the type of food I was looking for. That restaurant was called Lil’ Lotus.
I went on to look at the rating of this restaurants which happened to be 4.7 stars with 223 good google reviews. Which is what I tend to used to make my final decision when looking for a place to dine or get take-out from.
Reviews such as “love their food!! my favorite restaurant by far! HIGHLY recommend the burger with not-yo cheese sauce instead of the daya, it’s 10/10, all my family agrees! my whole family absolutely loves this restaurant and is pretty much the only place we go to eat out now, and for the last couple years. the burrito is also supperrrr good, and my parents quite enjoy the tacos. even my brother who “hates” vegan food loves lil lotus (especially the burger) haha! ☺️ best restaurant in all SLC!” by Dollie and “Great food! Everything I’ve gotten there has been 5 stars.” By Kevin are what made me make my ultimate choice.
On their menu, online I saw that they offered foods such as plant-based tacos, burgers, mac ‘n’ cheese and Carrot and Parsnip Fries, which is exactly what I was looking for. While looking at they’re menu I also took note of their prices, which were very reasonable with all their items being between $4 and $15.
What I realized about the consumer decision-making process is that it is very beneficial to take these steps when making any sort of choice. This way we cover all the basis at hand and won’t have any surprises or disappointments with our final decision. My preferences may be different because of the particular food and options I am searching for.
Salt Lake City Italian Restaurant:
Since I’m on my trip to Salt Lake City. I choice of restaurants is most likely to be fancy because I want to treat myself. So, for my restaurant I chose a fancy Italian food.
My trend of thoughts during the decision-making process:
1-Yelp and Google will be my options to look for reviews, rating, location as well as pricing. Since I want to treat myself, I will not be looking at price for this trip. I decided on Caffé Molise.
2-Based on Google reviews, the restaurant rating is high that stands on 4.5. After that I like when the restaurant has decent number of entrees to choose from, not too much neither too little. On the menu section, Caffe Molise has a good amount of food that I like.
3-The views are an important factor for my decision. For this restaurant, the environment is cozy. Which pretty much the aesthetic that I’m looking for.
4-Also, the food quality based on yelp reviews which is accurate most of the time. the food seems satisfied me.
5-The timing and the work hours should work for me. On their website indicates that they serve lunch as well as dinner.
6-Safety area, I must look for, this Italian restaurant locates in downtown Sal Lake City that provide me a safe area.
7-Even though I stated that I will not be looking at price. Still I want the price thar is on my range and able to enjoy it.
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During my stay at Salt Lake City, I am looking to try new restaurants that I can order food from I be looking for all different types of cuisines especially Italian food.
I started looking up different food place using google maps, there were many restaurants to choose from some of them were close to my hotel and many of them did not have the delivery option.
While searching for the restaurants was looking for casual food that could be delivered to my room and would also be affordable and within my budget. There were many options to consider from, but those restaurants did not have good rating or people that gave them ratings were under 500 which made me think that the food or the service might not be good because people were not giving it ratings and engaging with the restaurant. After doing a lot of research and spending almost an hour there were many restaurants that had amazing food which were Stoneground Italian Kitchen, Buca Di Beppo Italian Restaurant and Tuccis Cucina Italian. But the one that attracted me the most was Olive Garden Italian Restaurant because it had a 4.4 rating out of 2,387 total ratings. The reviews on the restaurant were “The food is good. Very good service. Social distancing well maintained” while reading this review it gave me confidence that the restaurant is following the CDC guidelines and maintain social distancing and the risk of getting Covid is reduced at that restaurant.” The other reviews that I read was “Lunch menu is good price-to-quality. A pasta, bread and salad or soup is only ~15 dollar.” After reading “Got takeout. Fast easy and good food as always.” These reviews confirmed that the food is not too expensive, and the takeout is quick and smooth so I would not have to wait too long receive my order.
After reading the reviews when I looked at their menu I saw a lot of different options like chicken Alfredo, tour of Italy and there was also an option to create your own pasta and they gave you five different types of pastas, sauce, toppings, and salad dressings to choose from if you had specific requirements and the price was under $15.This restaurant also had a variety of cakes to choose from in case I started to crave for desert.
While I was placing my order at Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, I choose to opt into their text messages service where they were giving me updates on the process of my food, they were telling if the order was being cooked, packed, picked up and delivered. After the delivery of my food, they also sent a link to survey where I was able to rate their service.
During this process I learned a lot of new stuff, like people not only look at the ratings but they also look at how many ratings the place has for example a resultant could have a 5/5 rating but only 2 people might have given that rating, which means that having a good rating and total number of ratings also matter. Another thing I learned was that sometimes you might not be satisfied by the rating but when you are reading the reviews they help you get a better understanding of the place.