When I started my research about Italian restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah, I used search engines like Bing and Google. By searching for “Italian restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah”, I found a list of restaurants in the area.

Also, if you notice, I haven’t mentioned anything about the restaurants being a “takeout” specific kind of kitchens. That’s because according to the given situation, I have just moved to Salt Lake City. Therefore, I would want to try out the food of restaurants that also have an aesthetic seating and dining experience, since I appreciate and enjoy fine/vibe dining (Step 1- Recognition of the problem).

After going through the menus, reviews and pictures of two dozen different Italian restaurants on Yelp in Salt Lake City (Step 2- Searching for Information), the two that caught my most attention were, “Modern Italian Graffiti Osteria” and “Valter’s Osteria”.

Since I was able to bring down my options to two restaurants, it was time for me to choose which alternative was going to be my takeout dinner for the night (Step 3-Evaluation of Alternatives).

Since I usually order something to enjoy as an appetizer with less calories, I started checking out the salads that the two restaurants had to offer. Valter’s Caeser Salad had a better rating than of the one that they had at Graffiti, even though in pictures Grafitti’s salad looked more tempting.

And since I’ve been consuming a lot of calories due to the increase in hunger because of the “moving-in” process, I felt like I should cut down some calories for dinner. Therefore, the place with the better salad got selected.

To decide what I wanted to order as an entrée, I had dived into the reviews. What I noticed was that people kept on repeating something about asking what pasta is “homemade”, and then getting it. So, that’s what I did. I got the “La Carbonara”, which with a creamy consistency and a deliciously smoky and peppery aftertaste, is the number one pasta dish both in the country and outside of Italy.

For Dessert, I went for the classic Cheesecake, since it had a fantastic rating on Yelp.

In conclusion, even though the city I was new to the location, as a responsible consumer, I knew what it was that I wanted and therefore, ended up ordering what I ordered. To add on to that, I feel that if every consumer understands the importance of knowing what’s best for them, the decision-making process will go way smoother.