The Rating System

I've been thinking a lot about how I'm going to rate the places I eat. I've finally come up with a system with some help from my wife. So here it is:

Taste: 5 stars available.
Service: 5 stars available
Ambiance: 5 stars available.

To accommodate the fact that not every place I eat will be 3 star Michelin, the scale will be reflected as a "appropriate" to "inappropriate" in terms of its ambiance. Meaning, McDonald's will be loud and have a playground and a bunch of kids running around and stuff. But that is "appropriate" for a McDonald's. Versus going to a fine dining establishment, where you pay at least $50 dollars for a meal per person and being loud and having a playground and a bunch of kids running around. That would get a rating of "inappropriate" because that's not what you would expect from a fine dining establishment.

And finally, we have a multiplier in the equation that makes things more interesting. The perception of value is going to be our last value in this equation. So if you were to set this up as a mathematical equation, it would look something like this:

PV x (T+S+A) = total score

PV=perceived value
T=taste
S=service
A=ambiance

So there it is folks. That's the system. I'll be rating restaurants of all kinds so come back and read about them.