And they just straight up fucking ignore me when I tell them how to make it less shitty. Like this guy who just straight up dumps plain unmarinated tofu into the deep fryer, causing it to just shrivel up, dry out, have shit texture and no flavor, and then he's surprised when people don't eat it. Literally all he'd have to do to make it 20x better is marinate it in nothing but diluted soy sauce, it would absorb flavor and develop a good tasting savory crust when fried. But noooope! It takes literally no effort but he's not doing that
This chicken marsala I'm eating right now is dog shit and I KNEW it'd be dog shit because all he did was cut the chicken thighs in half, dredge it (in flour insufficiently seasoned) and deep fry it and then toss it in a sauce that was so thin it immediately ran off
Holy fucking fucked to death shit, how hard is it to rub the chicken the night before and let it develop some flavor? As it is, it's flavorless chicken with flavorless breading in a sauce that IMO shouldn't be allowed to call itself a sauce (i think if your sauce doesn't stick to shit there's no fucking point in using it)
But if I say anything about how the quality of food is the reason people aren't coming in to eat people act like i'm an asshole
You could make food your style and put it next to theirs when people are eating next time, show them that you can back up your claims. Everyone claims they are the best these days I can't exactly blame them for dismissing empty words.
Don't treat people like background NPCs, have you ever actually thanked anyone who helped make you this far or do you think you're the MC who is so much better than us? People know if they improve all they'll get in return is more empty words anyways, so they don't give a damn anymore.