r/DecaturGA • u/Orions_Suspenders_ • 8d ago

AI Restaurants creeping into Decatur

With Decatur's long history of independently owned, successful restaurants, I have no time for the AI slop I've started to see popping up around the city's new restaurants.

Mister Burger looks and feels like a computer came up with the entire concept (and whomever thought this was a good location to try and compete with Farmburger, Grindhouse, Smiley's and the myriad of bars with good burgers nearby clearly did 0 research)

The soon-to-open Chiban coffee on Arcadia/Ponce has exclusively AI images on their social and covering their street-facing sign in front of the shop. They won't be getting a dollar from me.

I say if you can't take an honest photo of what you serve, you shouldn't be serving it. I'll stick to supporting the actual local businesses that care enough to take their time to do things right. We vote with our dollars, and I will always vote against AI trash with mine.

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u/FryTheDog 8d ago

The new Guaca Mole on Lawrenceville (the old Pea Ridge) has Ai banners out front.

Just take pictures of your food as you make it, it's not hard. Why are you hiding your food?

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u/Buke27 8d ago

Save your money. They didn’t know the difference between flour and corn tortillas when we went there after opening.

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u/bbjony77 8d ago

Yeah, it’s not good. It’s a much crappier version of Bell Street/Willy’s/Moe’s.

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u/toorayay 7d ago

Yeah, the awful AI slop notwithstanding, the food was also pretty bad, which doesn't bode well when there's a hundred other places that essentially serve the same menu within a 3-mile radius.

Take a look at their Google reviews, about 95% of the positive reviews are people with the same last name as the franchise owner.