Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I don't want your free food

In response to "Open Call for Free Food", let me just say, if you send me a free coupon to your restaurant, I'm not going to review it.  Seems like a great setup for corruption.

I just don't think you can objectively rate a free lunch.  So in the same way that financial reporters disclose it when they own stock in a company they're reviewing, I will state here that I will be paying for all of my meals (and sometimes B1's too).

1 comment:

b1-66er said...

To anyone thinking of offering free food, but then "thinking again" when they see the King's post here:

Please don't listen to him. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm sure you can feel the underlying hostility in his tone.

Those are the steroids talking.

It's an insidious and evil habit. He'll get over it some day. In fact, it's possible that all he needs is a free meal.

And, anyway, you can always give the coupons to me and *I'll* review it. I could assassinate the King, bring on an imposter here, and keep going.

Think about it.

And even if it *did* come out that I'd offed him, the knock-on media coverage would have to be viewed as a good thing. [Remember, when it became public that Paris Hilton's hiptop had been hacked, sales *tripled* (this is true, btw).]

As Mr. Barnum said, "the only thing worse than bad press is no press at all."

And we can give you press. Oh yes, we can.