Topic: Poor food despite competition

[welshman]

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. 

[Vindaloo-crazy]

I've been to loads of places like those. They seem to be more common than years ago.

[Secret Santa]

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.