Restaurant Observation Paper

This restaurant service evaluation paper will take a look at one of Orlando’s most popular casual dining spots, Miller’s Ale House located at 5573 Kirkman Road, Orlando, Florida. Miller’s Ale House motto is “Welcome to Our House” suggesting a fun, warm, and inviting atmosphere. Miller’s Ale House is known as a casual sports restaurant and bar serving food made fresh and at an affordable price. The restaurant is also known as a great place to meet friends and family and enjoy lunch or dinner while watching a sporting event on one of their large screen televisions. Miller’s Ale House has an incredibly large outside bar and patio displaying sports on all the televisions. Customers want to experience this type of customer service along with a friendly atmosphere and

When I arrived in New Orleans the first thing we did was go to Jackson Square. It was a place where you could go shopping or look around everywhere. They had little booths within Jackson Square. The booths had either fortune tellers or mind readers. They would tell you your future and what is going to happen or what might happen to you. They would also tell you what you were thinking at the moment or what has happened to you in the past. Another cool thing there was henna tattoos. This girl named Jenna was doing it and her booth was called Henna by Jenna. There were many more booths around there too, but those were some of the ones I thought were cool.

I was assigned to visit around the sector of Lionel-Groulx, which is very diverse and has numerous cultural landscapes. I often go to Lionel-Groulx to play basket-ball at DJ Sports center, there is a high concentration of Caribbean people at the center. We can observe that they are very outgoing and dynamic but have violent tendencies.

Growing up in a city known as the big melting pot, or big gumbo; New Orleans, La has many different cultures and is a very diverse city. Personally, I love the mixed culture of people from different background, beliefs, and way of living. At the same time, this intangible mixture can cause a lot of trouble and disagreements. From inside school grounds, to outside, cultures clash. During this month of August everyone is reminded of Hurricane Katrina and I cannot help, but to think about how during that experience so much trouble was going on between the different cultures in the city. Through that experience I also saw the entire city bind together and unify during the historic New Orleans and Atlanta Monday night football game. During that

In Zeitoun and When the Levees Broke, it was evident that Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the Gulf Coast, especially to New Orleans. Many lives were lost, and the people were both physically and mentally distraught. However, after just six months the people of New Orleans gathered their spirits to celebrate Mardi Gras. This celebration proved that the city’s identity had not been forgotten. New Orleans’ identity was also evident during the hurricane, which highlighted the ways in which people cared for each other. Although New Orleans went through an environmental crisis, the city was resilient enough for the people to remember their history, jazz music, and their connection to their tight-knit community.

Parading on the outskirts of Mobile while dressed up as a Chickasaw chief is how one man became an important factor in the history of Mobile, Alabama, in the mid 1800’s. Now, a day set aside for this man, parades with floats, beads, moonpies, and loud music remind Mobilians of their favorite time of the year, Mardi Gras. The carnival celebration of Mardi Gras has played a big role in the history of the southern cities Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, but the history that everyone believes about the carnival and the people that have contributed to it is not always as true as it seems.

The one significant message that I would like to point out from this essay is “I believe the soul of this place cannot be easily destroyed by wind and rain. I believe the music here will live and people will continue to dance. I believe in “Darlin’” and “Baby.” I believe in “Where ‘yat’?” and “Makin’ groceries.” I believe in neighborhoods where Mardi Gras Indians sew beaded costumes, kids practice trumpet in the street, and recipes for okra can provide conversation for an entire afternoon.” (Miller, M. 2013) To me, this essay captures the quality of being worthy of attention. It conveys the author's feelings towards New Orleans and in not so many words why he chose to move back. To me, these poignantly fifteen words said drove the point home,

recreation. It is not about restoring New Orleans’ authenticity. It is about preparing an atmosphere that

New Orleans jazz is attractive to the military culture in the shared aspect that “New Orleans jazz developed as a synthesis of social and cultural factors that merged at a particular time and place in history” (Metzger and Ernest 406). Moreover, “the usual New Orleans musicians’ response to disaster … has long been an inclination to use music to mitigate the harsh realities endemic to a city that finds itself perennially in harm’s way” (Raeburn 812) in which, post-WWI, WWII, Cold War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and most recently post-9/11, directly relates to military sentimentality. Further justifying the connection of the need to mitigate harsh realities with music, a sentiment shared between both New Orleans natives and U. S. Military communities, “the Naval School of Music add[ed] classes to perform in real-world settings that include performances in war-torn and developing countries” (Jones 52). This resulted in its recent curriculum “innovation [of] a New Orleans style brass band to provide the ability to send small, mobile acoustic groups to entertain audiences in difficult performance conditions” (Jones 52). The Naval School of Music takes direction from the employed fleet musicians and their supervisors’ feedback, rather than faculty, to quickly adapt a curriculum to the changing naval landscape (Jones 47-52).

One of the things that really intrigued me was the portion of the museum that discussed the use of Voodoo Potions as a part of many pharmacies in New Orleans during the 19th century. I had no prior knowledge about Voodoo before attending this museum. During my tour of the museum, I learned that in 19th Century New Orleans’s pharmacies sold Voodoo potions and powders. I also learned that Voodoo in New Orleans pharmacies began with a combination of African American culture and Catholicism. The voodoo healers, in contrary than what I thought, used herbs and even recommended molded bread for the treatment of syphilis even before penicillin was created. This was one of the most interesting parts of my visit because I didn’t expect a museum to openly discuss Voodoo. Before this museum visit, I had always expected it to be non-medical base, but from this museum I realized that some of it was actually based on real forms of medicine such as herbs and different forms of bacteria. Voodoo is not apart of my culture, but I do understand its existence and how it became apart of New Orleans pharmacies.

We’ve all heard of the festival being a scene with women flashing for beads and I totally expected the streets (especially Bourbon Street) to be filled with half-naked drunk people. What I found instead, were elaborately dressed festival-goers of all ages celebrating, laughing and expressing themselves through music, art, and dance. While many costumes and signs were humorous and outrageous, I never once felt anything other than love and positivity around

​If you’re looking for a bite of the best authentic Mexican food in Anchorage or Wasilla, Alaska, look no further than ​Hacienda Restaurant. This family-owned and operated restaurant serves up the tastiest Mexican dishes and has been pleasing their customers' taste buds for over 20 years.

Once I stepped inside the restaurant I automatically could hear the music playing at a moderate level and the laughter of the customers. Right off the back the restaurant's ambiance had a positive vibe. Mindful, it was a Saturday late afternoon. Mary Jane Burger and Brew is a local restaurant trying to stay true to its past. The granddaughter of the original owner now runs the place with the intention of serving good quality food where the ingredients are fresh, mouth watering, and surely not filled with antibiotics and all that other genetically modified elements found in processed foods. The vintage, rustic looking place, holds a small town atmosphere with a big taste.

In the article “Last Hope for Peace at Brooklyn’s Big Party” written by the Editorial Board of The New York Times, the main focus is whether or not Brooklyn’s city officials can run the annual celebration of Caribbean Culture named, J’ouvert, without a casualty. The writer uses a few techniques to get their argument across such techniques consist of title, imagery, and more. The writer is not one person but, it is rather The Editorial Board at the New York Times. The writer’s argument works effectively by providing evidence from previous celebrations of J’ouvert, fatal altercations during the event are bound to occur no matter what precautions officials make to prevent them.

There is no doubt that the Phoenix is one of the biggest city in the United States. It has the rich resources and good populations. We can always have fun here during my free time. Being an international student who is studying here, the food here is always the most important thing I worried about. Since I came here, I had tried so many foods here and I think each food own their independent style. Whatever what kind of food they from, I think they both good. But the food I always like best is Chinese food.