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No reservations and angry signs: Sydney’s worst restaurant habits

Richard Glover Broadcaster and columnist October 18, 2025 — 5.30am

In honour of the 2026 Herald Good Food Guide , out this week, I’d like to offer an update to my own annual publication, The Bad Food Guide , in which we take a short trip into the dark side of Sydney’s restaurants, fast-food joints and cafes.

The handwritten sign in the hamburger shop. I know it’s annoying to deal with the public, but does that one bad experience, which happened six years ago, have to be recorded via a handwritten sign, scribbled on a white chip bag, and stuck above the hotplates for all eternity? It might read: “Don’t leave the deep freeze open OR YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE”. Or

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