Hello, the best time to visit the restaurant is four to six months after opening; Go to the coffee shop and don't order other drinks with milk and sugar except the original coffee; The restaurant with noisy guests is worth a try; The best way to eat delicious food is to find it in the alley ... These suggestions are all from an economist named Tyler Cowen. "Anyone can use simple economic analysis to improve their chances of eating a good meal." The following are some important information mentioned in his book:

1. The best time to visit restaurants is the first four to six months after opening. Everything is on track, and the kitchen will not miss because of the hurry. After this golden period, the chef began to slack off.

Taylor mentioned that many restaurants are now branded as Michelin chefs, but in fact, they only serve as chief executives. After they have been in the new store for a while, they will fly to the next place to open the next one. Later, these restaurants were touted by food critics and completely turned into a social place instead of a place to enjoy food.

"I'm afraid of meeting a restaurant in which everyone is smiling and laughing, looking happy. Of course, happiness is definitely not a bad thing, but happiness and food are two different things. Many restaurants attract customers not by food, but by creating a hot spot for drinking, dating and carnival to attract business and earn high fees. "

2. There is also an economic law called "long-term equilibrium" in the catering industry. The quality of restaurants can usually be judged by several static characteristics, such as what kind of customers they attract.

If you go to a restaurant in China, it's a good sign to see customers clamoring as if they were at home, because it means they are probably regular customers here, and so many regular customers come and go, which proves that this restaurant may still be good. "Many restaurants in China are like this, full of screaming China customers-don't ask me what they are talking about, I have no idea, but I think that's an indicator worth trying."

And if a restaurant is full of fashionable and beautiful female guests, it will be very dangerous, because when there are beautiful women in this restaurant, many men will follow, no matter whether the food served is delicious or not.

3. In addition, don't go to restaurants with many children. "The taste of American children has caused irreparable damage to American food. Since the 1951 s, children have been deciding the taste of American food choices, which is one of the important reasons why there are so many boring and nutritious foods in the United States. " Therefore, the restaurants and foods that children like are all broken by Tucson.

"Don't go to restaurants with beautiful women, hipsters and customers who are smiling or laughing." -This is his advice.

4. According to the economic principle of "cross-subsidy", it is best to drink original coffee when you go to a coffee shop, don't order other drinks with sugar and milk, and don't go to restaurants in busy areas, because the rent is definitely high there, and most of the money you eat is in the rent.

5. In some places, the food is delicious, but the price is not expensive, which may be because they don't regard food as the main business item to make money, but drinks make money. Restaurants make special dishes to attract customers, in order to lure them to buy wine. In this case, drinks are subsidizing food.

6. casinos generally provide delicious but affordable food to attract gamblers, which is also equivalent to subsidies. Taylor suggested that if you travel to a gambling city, it is more cost-effective to eat in a casino.

7. In addition, you can also go to some Pakistani restaurants, because they strictly abide by Islamic teachings and don't serve drinks, so they must pay special attention to the quality of food to win customers.

8. if there are some ugly and unknown dishes on the menu, you can try them, because those dishes can't be served by heating them up in advance, so they may be delicious.

9. The key to finding delicious food is to make use of the relationship between supply and demand. For example, if you look for delicious food in a strange place, you can go to the local vegetable market. The seafood you eat in a small fishing village is always better than that in a big city, because those are just caught, and without transportation, they are of course the freshest.