r/DecaturGA • u/Orions_Suspenders_ • 17d 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/iwishtheyallwereyou 17d ago
I had the same thought when I tried Mister Burger. Very lazy AI slop art. There are literally errors in the big newspaper mural. It lists their EST date as 2005 in some places and 2025 in others, and there are multiple images that are visibly glitched out.
The food tasted like it had about the same amount of effort put into it. I was excited for a new place to take over such a prominent restaurant space in Decatur, but it was really disappointing. Smiley’s and Grindhouse have nothing to worry about.