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Just Dance 2014 Reviews - OpenCritic
Ubisoft
Oct 8, 2013 - PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5
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IGN
7.5 / 10
COGconnected
80 / 100
Push Square
7 / 10
PlayStation LifeStyle
8 / 10
Nintendo Life
7 / 10
The Digital Fix
7 / 10
NZGamer
7.3 / 10
GameZone
8 / 10
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IGN
Keza MacDonald
7. 5 / 10.0
Just Dance 2014 is still daft fun on PS4, but other versions have more to offer.
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COGconnected
Trevor Houston
80 / 100
Just Dance 2014 is about the about as good as it gets when it comes to a virtual dancing simulation game for your Wii U. With over 48 tracks available at launch and the possibility of more DLC to come, it is perfect for those tweens, teens and adults looking for a fun social game to play.
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Push Square
Nathan Michalik
7 / 10
As long as you have a Move controller in your hand, then Just Dance 2014 deserves your A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E. The impressive setlist and varied dance styles make this an incredibly fun title for both newcomers and experts alike. More consistency between modes would have been welcome, and improved standalone PlayStation Camera tracking could have certainly elevated the release even further.
If you own Sony's illuminating wand, though, this is easily the best party game on the PS4.
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PlayStation LifeStyle
Chandler Wood
8 / 10.0
Having not ever played that other Just Dance titles, I can't compare this one to those, but I can say that Just Dance 2014 is a fun game. Having this in time for the holidays has made entertaining family and friends extremely easy to do, and anything to keep Uncle Herb from telling his horrible jokes for the hundredth time is a win, right? Most people who play aren't even focused so much on scoring as they are on dancing and having a good time, so on the off chance that the camera screws up, no one ever seemed to care.
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Nintendo Life
Jon Wahlgren
7 / 10
Ubisoft takes a lot of really big swings with Just Dance 2014 — some, like Autodance and Just Dance TV, hit it out of the park, whereas others, like competing online and a rejiggered Just Sweat mode, are something of a whiff as they can feel lonely and undercooked.
Still, if you want to boogie down in your living room, Just Dance 2014 has more than enough moves to keep that slide of yours electric.
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The Digital Fix
Henry Kelly
7 / 10.0
At its core, Just Dance is a simple dance game slathered in perhaps unnecessary distraction. Ubisoft have included coins and leaderboards but in reality it's not a game that will require that sort of dedication. It will likely sit on the shelf and be brought out in small bursts, for parties or social gatherings. Ubisoft could alleviate this convolution by simply releasing new tracks as downloadable updates but the game thrives on its constant retail shelf-presence, particularly to a casual gaming audience who might not be as savvy to recognise a new downloadable add-on. Just Dance 2014 on the Xbox One is exactly the game you might expect it to be. There is more content than most people will likely use and as a core experience it doesn't offer much to sell non-fans on the wonder of Kinect, but if you fancy some fresh beats to dance to on your shiny new console, it works well without drastically altering a winning formula for Ubisoft.
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NZGamer
Matthew Codd
7.3 / 10.0
Nonetheless, Just Dance 2014 is still a whole lot of fun, particularly if you bring a few friends around to join in. Just make sure you keep a towel handy, as all that dancing can be sweaty work.
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GameZone
Mike Splechta
8 / 10.0
Much like its already established predecesors, JD2014 doesn't really mix it up all that much in terms of gameplay, so if that's what you were hoping for, you might as well look elsewhere. However, if it's a party you're after, you definitely came to the right place.
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Parent reviews for Just Dance 2014
Oddball20 Adult
January 13, 2020
age 10+
Just Dance 2014
Video games and exercise need not be mutually exclusive activities.
Ubisoft's Just Dance series –- which now has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide -– encourages gamers to get up on their feet and dance to today’s top hits (and some classics, too). The latest in the franchise is JUST DANCE 2014, available for all major console platforms -- and, soon, for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. As with its predecessors, the game challenges you to mimic moves of professional dancers to rack up as many points as possible. In other words, you're pretending to look in a mirror so you can copy the dancer's moves, in real time, as best as you can. The Xbox 360 version we tested works with the Kinect peripheral, so you don't have to hold anything in your hands to play as you do for the other consoles. Body moves are captured by the sensors and the camera to compare your rhythm against the on-screen men and women, who appear in front of an animated background. Your performance is graded at the top of the screen, while lyrics are at the bottom for those who want to glance down and follow along.
Up to four people can step in front of the television at any time –- even during a song -- and they'll automatically join in on the fun. — What’s in the game? Minor Sexual Lyrics - There are a few suggestive lines in the song lyrics, such as, "Take me by the tongue," "Temptress, hands up, naughty on the inside," and "Hey, sexy boy, set me free / Don't be shy, play with me / My dirty boy, can't you see." In one animated scene, a Rabbid (an Ubisoft video game character) removes its shorts in a comical fashion, but there is no nudity. Minor Drinking Lyrics - There are a half-dozen references to alcohol in the lyrics of these songs such as "Kiss me 'til you're drunk," "All I need is some vodka," and "She...makes you order French champagne." Retails for $39.99
This title has:
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Ian F. Adult
May 2, 2018
age 3+
This title has:
Easy to play/use
CSMContentDefault Adult
April 6, 2017
age 10+
The Perfect Party Game!
Some songs wink-wink at sex, as well as some skimpy outfits, but both are completely avoidable! Enjoy!
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Easy to play/use
emmastanley Adult
August 10, 2015
age 3+
PEGI rating says 3!!! Not 10+
I hate people who thinks this is inappropiat NO sex NO violence nothing bad this is FUN i play this with my friend i love the song ghostbusters and mother father gentlemen but may the dance be very mild innuendo
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Great messages
Easy to play/use
Too much consumerism
VideoGameReallyFun Adult
July 12, 2014
age 10+
Perfect Fine For kids All ages
i have playing This Since i brought Around Christmas is really Fun kids will love it they care words in songs they are just having is really Fun today parents so mean And rude honest i had grown up in this today world i would so mental mess you parents leave more children today with serious Mental issues is what really want Children become ? the song is total fun you parents rise strong and blame ever darn thing comes these which so many parents Do
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Easy to play/use
Saturne Adult
May 30, 2014
age 16+
Lots of great songs, but far too many raunchy ones for my family
My son has been wanting to get this game because he loves Just Dance, and it has one of his favourite songs on this version.
(Katy Perry's Roar.) However, when I was looking through the song list, I was concerned at the large number of songs that are about sex and alcoholism. I rented it from Redbox to try out and see if we'd get it, and decided a most definite NO! It has some marvelous songs that I would love to have. However, there are far too many raunchy songs that I wouldn't let my kids listen to on the radio, let alone dance to them. It's too bad, since the rest of the game is great. I got my kids Just Dance 2014 Kids instead. My son was disappointed, but there's no way I'm letting them have this one.
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Too much sex
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking
martimusears Adult
January 15, 2014
age 17+
Lyrics promote sexual violence against women (Plus: A sample script to use to contact Nintendo)
I'm very disappointed in Nintendo's song selections for Just Dance 2014.
At least eleven of the 46 songs are about sex. At least four of these songs have lyrics about alcohol consumption and sex, which research has shown is a dangerous combination for teens that often leads to sexual assault. And at least three songs contain dehumanizing lyrics that promote sexual violence against women. "C'mon" by KE$SHA, features a cute panda dancing with a girl. Unfortunately this endearing panda is dancing to a song about a girl who is drinking and trying to convince a guy to have a one night stand with her, including a repeated reference to offering him oral sex. "We've been keeping it PG / But I wanna get a little frisky / Come...some of that yum like a... / Let me set you free." The words the game edited/silenced out with the "..." are "gimme" and "lollipop." (Come gimme some of that yum like a lollipop.) In another place they edited out "Hooters," but even with these edits, these are not words and messages that parents want running through their child or teen's head, as catchy songs tend to do.
"Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke is the infamous song Miley Cyrus danced to with Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards. In this song about Thicke trying to have sex with a "good girl," Thicke says, "Do it like it hurt, like it hurt/What you don't like work?" He then makes reference to his penis, "I got this from Jamaica/It always works for me, Dakota to Decatur, uh huh." Thicke sounds like a sexual predator/perpetrator and the message is clear: Sex for males is about pleasure while sex for females is about work and pain. These are the same attitudes that sexual perpetrators ("Johns") hold to justify violence against women and girls who are lured or forced into prostitution. It's ridiculous that Nintendo and Ubisoft thought it was a good idea to include this song in a game they market to kids and teens. "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis also contains lyrics that are sexual, violent and dehumanizing: "I'ma hit it and flex it and do it until tomorrow." "Hit it" is a slang term for a male having sex with a female that is both violent ("hit") and dehumanizing ("it").
The woman is reduced to an "it" and what is meant to be a loving act is characterized by a violent act. "Pound the Alarm" by Nicki Minaj has more sexually explicit, dehumanizing lyrics mixed with alcohol consumption. "Bottle, sip, bottle, guzzle" and "I wanna do it for the night/So get me now and knock this over/I wanna do it like you like." Here a woman refers to herself in a dehumanizing way (a "this," or object, rather than a person) and invites a man to be violent with her ("knock this over"). She's willing to "do it like (he) likes" even if that means violence. This is the same message the porn industry continually peddles, fueling the epidemic of violence against women. Please write or call Nintendo (1-800-255-3700) to complain and ask them to commit to changing their song selection process for all future Just Dance games. Here's a sample script: "Hello, I'm calling to complain about the lyrics in many of the songs in Just Dance 2014. Almost a fourth of the songs are about sex and some of them dehumanize and promote sexual violence against women.
I want Nintendo to commit to improving the song selection process for all future Just Dance games and to create more options such as the ability to turn off the vocals on individual songs and the ability to remove individual songs and replace them with songs from the Just Dance "Store" at no additional charge. Nintendo can best serve its Just Dance customers who are predominantly underage girls by refusing to perpetuate sexual violence against them. I love dancing and the concept of Just Dance. Parents can make a list for their kids of the songs they want them to avoid (and hope that they will). That's what I'm doing. Unfortunately that list may include approximately 10 songs.
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Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking
392818 Adult
December 7, 2013
age 18+
NOT for Family Night-ADULTS ONLY
I've been reading through a lot of the songs' lyrics and there are tons more sexual lyrics than is posted here.
Not suitable for even my highschoolers. A good third of the songs are referring to "hooking up" (and getting drunk, etc...) and when I thought I found a safe song for my kids to dance to (because it was a foreign language) the dancer grabs his crotch near the end of the dance (Michael Jackson style). If you value what your kids are entertained by, do not get this. Rent it first and see for yourself.
This title has:
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking
cyndifug8 Adult
November 1, 2013
age 12+
Another Hit
Just Dance 2014 is the latest installment of a fun series of video games, and this one delivers just as the past ones have. It isn't my favorite edition thus far, but it has some very current song selections as well as some great classics. There are a few songs that are a bit too sexy for my family, but the great thing is that you can just skip right over them and ignore them.
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Too much sex
How musicians of the South Korean K-pop group BTS became multimillionaires
Kim Namjoon, frontman of BTS
South Korean K-pop boy band BTS received four awards at the MTV European Music Awards 2020 last November 9: best group, best fan base, best song (track Dynamite, 2020) and the best online performance. (K-pop is a mix of popular music trends of the 1990s: hip-hop, electropop, rhythm and blues, soul, dance music.) Their June online concert Bang Bang Con: The Live attracted about 756,000 viewers and became the largest paid online show. Tickets cost $26 for fan club members and $35 for everyone else. According to Forbes, the group could raise up to $20 million. This is much less than the musicians could earn on a world tour. But a good example of how, with the proper use of technology and a fan base, it’s good to make money even in quarantine times, the magazine notes.
BTS is the main cash cow of their record company Big Hit Entertainment.
It accounted for 88% of the label's revenue in the first half of this year. Thanks to BTS fans last month, Big Hit Entertainment was able to conduct a triumphant IPO - on the basis of the first day of trading, it rose to $ 8 billion. This is only half the capitalization of Warner Music Group.
Why they call him RM
BTS frontman Kim Namjoon. Previously, he was called Rap Monster because, in his youth (BTS was founded in 2010), a 16-year-old performer at the end of a song he wrote shouted out: “I'm a rap monster!” Recording studio staff took it into service. Later, he became embarrassed by this pseudonym and began to call himself RM.
Namjoon was born on September 12, 1994. Seoul is often referred to as his small home, but in fact he is from Ilsan, a satellite city located half an hour from the capital of South Korea. According to the recollections of peers, Kim was the soul of the company with an inexhaustible supply of jokes and at the same time a very diligent student.
He learned English on his own: his mother gave him tapes of the Friends series, which he watched first with Korean subtitles, then with English, and then without them at all. In the seventh grade, he entered the top 1% of the students in the country that best passed the English exam. And in the IQ test, he scored 148 points out of 180 possible, while the average level is 100-120 points.
Fan trap
All seven members of BTS became multi-millionaires after Big Hit Entertainment's IPO on the Korea Exchange a month ago. Before him, the studio gave them 68,385 shares each (0.2%). The demand of retail investors exceeded the offered number of shares by 600 times, and institutional investors - by 1100 times.
Big Hit Entertainment raised $822 million in an IPO, the largest listing in South Korea since July 2017, when the pharmaceutical company Celltrion HealthCare raised $850 million Big Hit Entertainment was valued at $4.1 billion, more than its rivals SM Entertainment ($720 million), YG Entertainment ($900 million) and JYP Entertainment ($1.
15 billion).
On the first day of trading on October 15, the share price jumped by 91%. Big Hit Entertainment was only half the price of Warner Music Group. “Few musicians in the world can afford to gather entire stadiums in major cities around the world for their concerts,” one of the investment bankers involved in the IPO explained to Forbes. The magazine estimates that in 2019, BTS earned $170 million from touring, more than any American band except Metallica.
Quotes largely dispersed by the fans of the group. They were the main victims of the hype. Institutional investors sold the lion's share of their shares in the first two days, writes FT. From a peak of 351,000 won per share, they more than halved to 157,500 by the close of trading on November 12. “How can I get my shares back? I have the check left” - such messages flooded the forums of the band's fans.
The actions of investors are quite understandable. Big Hit Entertainment has effectively bet everything on one group, with which it has a contract until 2024.
Last year, BTS accounted for 97% of its revenue, in the first half of this year, 88%. Meanwhile, boy bands have a bad habit of losing popularity or breaking up. For example, after the compulsory military service for most Koreans, which lasts 18 months or more and which, most likely, musicians will have to complete before they turn 35 years old. Namjoon is now 26, the rest are about the same.
“Rap was my escape from the stress of my studies. I studied a lot,” Namjoon told Cuvism Magazine online. He sings about this in the song No More Dream (2013) from the band's first album. Dream means both “dream”, which schoolchildren lose due to time-consuming cramming, and “dreams”: “While I was studying, I did not dream at all.”
After listening to rappers, Kim began to write his own songs and hide them in textbooks so that his parents would not find them (although they did find out by accident). Together with a friend who is now known as the rapper Zico, Kim began to perform his own rap.
Their most famous composition was Fuck Cockroachez (“I put it on cockroaches”), recorded in 2008 when Zico was 15 years old and Namjoon was 13 years old. He then called himself RunchRanda, which means “I am Ranch”, that is, the character of the game that he was then fond of. Under this pseudonym, Namjoon began performing in the group Daenamhyup, which, in addition to him, included Kidoh and Supreme Boi, who became underground rap stars in South Korea.
What makes BTS special
Namjoon was spotted by hip-hop artist Seepy and arranged for him to audition at Big Hit Entertainment in 2010. There he was offered to become the first member of the future boyband. At first, the group was called Bangtan Sonyeondan, i.e. "Bulletproof Boy Scouts", then it was shortened to BTS and three years ago they officially announced a new, more solid decoding of the abbreviation: Beyond the Scene ("Behind the Scene").
It wasn't easy for Namjoon to accept the offer. First, it was necessary to convince the parents that for an excellent student, a musical project with unclear prospects is better than entering a university.
He dealt with it. Secondly, I had to convince myself to move from the underground to pop culture.
Korean studios have literally commercialized K-pop stars. Companies like Big Hit Entertainment are looking for young talent and are investing up to $100,000 a year per pop star, according to a Harvard Business School study: this includes singing and dancing training, plastic surgery, a mentoring program, and even mental health care. As a result, boy and girl bands, as well as solo performers, roll off the assembly line, some of them become "idols" - that is, idols for millions of boys and girls, justifying all the expenses of the studios.
“It's not easy for a rapper to join an idol group,” Vice explains. - On the one hand, he receives resources, support, fame. On the other hand, it loses the trust of the former audience. For many, an idol rapper is an oxymoron. And hip-hop for fans isn't real if it's spit out by a K-pop machine. Don't expect to be taken seriously if you choose your outfits carefully and make up your eyes to be "aegyo"
“We thought about it a lot.
And we came to the conclusion that it is better to choose a path that will allow our music to reach the ears of the largest possible audience, ”one of the BTS members under the pseudonym Suga explained to the Sports Seoul online publication. “We will break all prejudices against idols and hope that the day will come when people will know that we really love hip-hop,” Namjoon told Cuvism Magazine. His group differs from the vast majority of K-pop boy bands in that its musicians themselves write lyrics, music and come up with choreography.
The choreography was really difficult for Namjoon. Although he is an athletic guy and plays basketball well, dancing plastic turned out to be so difficult for him that teachers sarcastically called him "the genius of dance." But, just like at school, Namjoon pushed hard and eventually not only became great at moving, but also fell in love with dancing.
Big Hit Entertainment Co Ltd
Production company
The main shareholders of
(company data as of October 15, 2020) are Bang Si-Hyeok (34.
74%), Netmarble Corp (19,9%).
Capitalization - $5.0 billion
Financial indicators
(H1 2020):
revenue - 294 billion Korean won ($243.7 million),
net income - 31.9 billion Korean won ($26.5 million) .
Founded in 2005 Involved in artist management, acting as a scheduling and scheduling agent, producing and releasing new music and video content for artists. Produces souvenir products (branded clothing and goods with the name of the artist).
BTS is also unusual in that it expresses its position on socially sensitive issues, although usually idols try to stay away from this, and for good reason. For example, BTS has a huge fan base in China. But last month, Namjoon was at an event hosted by the American nonprofit Korea Society in New York to celebrate the friendship between the US and South Korea. In his speech, he mentioned that the two countries had gone through a lot together, such as the Korean War. This caused an uproar in China, which supported the other side of the conflict.
Chinese fans began to publicly declare that they were disappointed in their idol, and advertisements featuring BTS from companies operating in China began to disappear on the Internet.
Namjoon is causing discontent among his compatriots as well. For example, openly advocates for LGBT rights - this is still a hot topic for South Korea. However, he himself does not belong to the LGBT. He had a girlfriend at school, and there are occasional rumors that he secretly got married. They do not find official confirmation: idols should not have a relationship - this can lead to the loss of fans and even breaking the contract with the studio.
In 2017, BTS launched Love Myself, a global campaign against child and teen abuse, with UNICEF. Billboard magazine wrote that they not only helped with the campaign, but also raised about $1.4 million in donations. The musicians became the first Korean group to deliver a speech at a session of the UN Assembly. It was in 2018. In a six-minute speech, which Namjoon delivered on behalf of the whole group, as he knows English best of all, the youth were urged to believe in themselves and love themselves as they are.
Way up
At first it seemed that the boy band would die without being born. It was not possible to recruit a group of seven people. Some rappers did not want to become idols, others could not stand the grueling training. For a long time, the group consisted of only three rappers - Namjoon, Suga and J-Hope. The year was already 2012, while Big Hit Entertainment expected to start promoting the boy band as early as 2011. “I was very worried,” Namjoon recalled in an interview with Sports Seoul. “And the acquaintances simply tortured me with questions about when we will start.”
This is a Big Hit Entertainment feature, The Daily Dot explained online. His competitors like YG Entertainment and SM Entertainment have a lot of idols in production. Big Hit Entertainment prefers to focus energy on individual projects, carefully crafting them. In fact, now they have in their assets - boy bands TXT (debuted in March last year) and BTS, singer Lee Hyun and solo projects of some BTS members.
But, as practice has shown, their approach works.
The BTS project started in 2010. By the end of 2012, the final composition of the group was determined and it began to be promoted in social networks from individual clips. The group officially debuted in June 2013 with the album 2 Cool 4 Skool. “After debuting, the studio staff told us, “Imagine you are in jail for the next two years. Then you will achieve something." We focused only on work, trying to see and hear nothing but her, ”Namjoon recalled in a conversation with Cuvism Magazine. They performed concerts, rehearsed for at least two hours a day, took vocal and dance lessons or got together to discuss new songs for the rest of the time. They lived in a hostel and later recalled that they ate a lot of fruit - a cloud of breeding fruit flies became the biggest problem. The idea to spray pesticides was rejected because of the danger of poisoning ourselves. Eventually one of the band members solved the problem with a vacuum cleaner.
The first album was followed by the mini-album O!RUL8,2?, in February 2014 the mini-album Skool Luv Affair appeared, in August the full-length album Dark & Wild, and in December the Japanese versions of their songs in the album Wake up. The guys starred in the show Rookie King Channel Bangtan on the Korean music channel SBS MTV, in August they performed at the Korean music festival KCON in Los Angeles (USA), and in October-December they toured Asia.
Careful preparation and the fact that the group already had well-known performers in the musical community allowed the group to develop faster than most other K-pop projects. The song I Need U from the album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1 (March 2015) became BTS' first hit, hitting the top five in South Korea. Released in May 2016, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever earned them their first major award, winning Album of the Year at the Korean Melon Music Awards. It should be noted that in 2013 they won at this ceremony in the nomination "New Performer of the Year".
And in 2019set a record by winning every major Melon Music Awards nomination, from Artist of the Year to Album of the Year.
In 2017, BTS rocked the music scene as the first Korean group to be nominated for Top Social Artist in the US at the Billboard Music Awards. They not only claimed the award - they won it, beating Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez. And they won this nomination for three more years in a row, including the current one. Last year, BTS became the third group in half a century to have three albums top the Billboard 200 in less than a year (previously only The Beatles and The Monkees had done so).
BTS's success has even received state awards. In 2018, the President of South Korea presented the members of the group with the Order of Cultural Merit, 5th class. In 2019, BTS accounted for 24.8% of K-pop album sales in South Korea, while their closest competitor Seventeen accounted for just 5.9% (Statista data).
Along the way, some BTS members are developing their own projects under Big Hit Entertainment.
Namjoon, for example, released his first solo album back in 2015 and has since recorded more than one song both alone and with other well-known musicians, including American rapper Wale. Perhaps someday he will sing with his idol - US presidential candidate Kanye West. “I want to become like West, the one who creates trends,” he admitted to Cuvism Magazine.
Five myths about consumer rights
The most common misconceptions about what we can demand in catering establishments.
It is becoming less and less common to download rights in modern restaurants - in today's competitive environment, loyalty to guests is paramount for an establishment. Everyone knows this and even abuses it to the extent of the harmfulness of their character. As a result, many of the consumers have not looked into the law for a long time - and in the meantime it has managed to acquire many myths.
As it turned out, even in our office there were false rumors about what the consumer was entitled to in a restaurant.
Moreover, we are not talking about some subtle nuances of legislation, but about whole phenomena that we encounter almost every day. Having studied the issue in detail, we present to your attention the five main erroneous opinions that have become accustomed to the minds of most people.
A GLASS OF WATER
- Myth #1: At any catering establishment, at your request, you are required to provide a free glass of water.
A very common request, usually accompanied by a comment like "I'd like to take a pill." Add to this a heavy facial expression calling for humanism and morality - and a glass of water from the cooler is already yours. The funny thing about this is that even the staff of the establishment often does not know if you have the right to it, and simply decides to take the path of least resistance.
In fact, there is no such law. About ten years ago, in some press, the advisability of introducing it was discussed, but the fuss around this idea ended in nothing. However, the rumor picked up, and since then the opinion has strengthened in society that this rule is written somewhere.
For the sake of interest, the author of this article decided to conduct an experiment - for a month in different institutions, along with the order, she asked "just a glass of water." In 100% of cases (and this is about 20 different restaurants and cafes) they brought it. Once they said that they didn’t have cold water, but they could bring hot water with ice (and they did), and once again they only timidly noted that they generally have water on the menu, but 1 glass - so be it. What is it - boundless loyalty or ignorance of the law? Unclear. But the consumer is clearly the winner here, for which we thank our good catering.
ROOM
- Myth #2: You have the right to enter the toilet of any cafe or restaurant from the street.
Here the story is the same as with a glass of water: once they wanted to make it a law in an attempt to save money on organizing public latrines.
As a result, a resolution of March 23, 2004 N 433 was issued, where in paragraph 7 it was ordered to “recommend the heads of public catering enterprises to ensure unimpeded access of citizens to toilets located on the territory of these enterprises, free of charge.” Firstly, "recommend" - not to oblige, and secondly, this document became invalid in October 2007.
Therefore, relying on its own rights and adherence to principles, the restaurant may refuse you this pleasure. However, in general, here, again, a positive picture for the consumer - apparently, the consciousness of our society is becoming more civilized, and in practice you will not be blocked anywhere from the road to this cherished place. Well, unless you look like a bum with a bag, or look like a drug addict who will be locked in a booth until the evening.
An interesting fact: in Rome, for example, such a law exists, and there catering establishments have no right to prohibit anyone from visiting their restroom.
At first glance, an excellent rule - but there is also its negative side: most of the toilets, even in extremely pleasant restaurants, are terribly not cleaned. The opposite situation in Paris is there, although the rights in this regard are the same as ours, but there is no question of any loyalty. If you try to carefully walk from the entrance to the restroom, the waiter who runs up can abruptly grab you by the sleeve and, with indignant cries (yes, yes), escort you out. Perhaps this is some kind of special dislike for tourists.
AND WE ALREADY BREAKED
- Myth #3: First you get a check, then you pay.
In fact, the check itself should be brought to you only with change. What they bring first is a "pre-check": a piece of paper printed from the restaurant's computer program, in which general accounting is kept. In other words, this is not a fiscal cash document, the change of which requires a lot of effort from an accountant.
Therefore, if the invoice contains an error, you are required to reprint it.
In general, the pre-check is an occasion for many manipulations and deceptions. Moreover, it is not so much consumers who suffer here, but the owners of the institution themselves. Keep in mind - if after paying the bill you did not receive a fiscal receipt, then the money went into the pocket of the waiter. You can distinguish a real check from a “preliminary” one by the letter “F” in one form or another present on it; the most common abbreviation is "FP".
Another thing is the internal restrictions and fines that the owners of the restaurant set to protect themselves from theft. Then, if it is required, for example, to strike something off the bill, then either the waiter or the cook will probably be financially responsible for this. In such cases, you can openly put pressure on pity, as it was once in my memory in one restaurant - after a dispute with the waitress, the administrator approached me with the words: “Yes, the girl may have heard you incorrectly when ordering, but you understand that she now has to pay for it with her own money?” That is, not only did they bring me the wrong order and supposedly have to pay for it - besides, I should feel like an encroacher on someone else's bread.
Well, just greedy and inhumanity. Alas, this tactic is often used. But remember - technically, all this is for you "Indian problems" from that cynical saying. You have your rights, and subordinates of the catering organization have theirs. Whether you mix them or not is up to you.
WHAT IS MERLEAU
- Myth #4: when you are allowed to sample a wine from a bottle, you can refuse it if you don't like it.
A classic picture: the guest tries a tasting sip of wine and depicts a terribly serious, multi-understanding look on his face, then smacks his lips and importantly summarizes: “Well, okay, let's go.” A similar scheme of actions and facial manipulations has finally taken root in our imagination. Many even fundamentally refuse the opportunity to be the first to taste wine, fearing that their opinion in the company will not seem very competent.
In fact, the wine is allowed to taste only to determine if it has turned sour.
Yes, no sacred knowledge about the correct tannins of a particular variety is required from you. Anyone can understand whether wine is spoiled or not. This is how to distinguish fresh cabbage soup from fermented ones - a sharp unpleasant smell and sour taste.
“It seems to me that now most people already know why exactly they are allowed to taste wine,” Leonid Sternik, a well-known St. Petersburg sommelier and co-owner of the Vincent restaurant, comments on the situation. - From my practice, for example, I remember a case when guests tried to refuse a bottle, because semi-dry Riesling (and the fact that it was semi-dry, it was indicated on the map) seemed too sweet to them. It was in the "Cow-bar" on Moscow. It all ended in a scandal, I even called the owners of the restaurant, but the client still had to pay, as he was wrong in all respects. Moreover, I am sure that these people could achieve their goal if it happened in a restaurant that is very loyal to its guests. Personally, I do not appreciate such "flexibility" - such an approach corrupts customers, and eventually conflicts occur.
In general, such situations develop infrequently - a maximum of 1% out of a hundred. Much more often you can come across the erroneous opinion that the wine has gone bad if it has a soaked cork. But in reality, this is quite common for aged wines, which are usually five years old or more.”
FLIES IN THE SOUP
- Myth #5: If something is wrong in the food, this dish can only be replaced.
Often, in order not to lose your earnings, in a restaurant they may tell you that they can only replace a spoiled dish for you with something else. It turns out that having experienced all shades of disgust after you found a fly, hair or God forbid something else in the soup, you are offered to order and eat another creation of the same unscrupulous cook.
In fact, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 18 of the Law of the Russian Federation "On the Protection of Consumer Rights", the consumer, if defects are found in the product, if they have not been specified by the seller, has the right to refuse payment or demand the amount paid for the product.
