Here’s something that keeps happening to me when I check out a restaurant for the quest: The restaurant is empty. I can be a pretty scathing reviewer and restaurateurs rightly tremble at my approach, but now I think it’s because I personify the death knell for their business. Look at the number of places I go to which are completely empty. I feel like it’s kind of my fault.

Ali Baba and the forty absent customers

Dearth (of customers) Vardar

Gilaking in diners

Mimino miminising covers

Sidra insert pun here

Port of Manila – no one docking here.

Thai Rice crickets chirp

Phoking empty

Tito’s Peruvian Restaurant wilderness