People would normally assume that Indian restaurants in an area with a high concentration of Indian restaurants are more likely to offer good food due to fierce competition and customers having plenty of other restaurants to choose from if a restaurant offers poor food or service.
However this does not always seem to be the case. I found a website which gives information about Indian restaurants in the curry mile in Manchester and the website includes reviews for some restaurants. Some restaurants received bad reviews. Have you eaten in a restaurant located somewhere with a large number of Indian restaurants competing against each other and you encountered poor food and bad service.
I've been to loads of places like those. They seem to be more common than years ago.
Quote from: welshman on September 21, 2010, 12:28 AM
People would normally assume that Indian restaurants in an area with a high concentration of Indian restaurants are more likely to offer good food due to fierce competition
Actually I would think it's the other way around. The fierce competition means that those who can't compete on the quality of their curries have to compete on cost. I would therefore expect (with no real proof) that where competition is fierce the cheap restaurants will, for the most part, be the worst.