Do food critics have to pay for the food?!
Do food critics have to pay for the food?
do food critics have to pay for the food they eat in restaurants?? or is it paid for them?
Answers: Food critics generally go in anonymously so that they don't get any special treatment from the restaurant. They'd probably be able to expense their dinners with the newspaper/magazine where they work, but the restaurants themselves would charge them like any other client. this would depend on for whom they are writing. freelance writers pay their way, but it's a write off on their taxes. Usually the periodical they're writing for covers the costs. It would be a conflict of interest for the restaurant to offer free food to a critic. Yes, due to journalistic ethics (if some of the current newspapers have some ethics), and impartiality, they must pay. it is paid for them 1 way or another, usually they remain annonymous and so act like a paying customer, if its someone high profile, and they are known in the gastronomy circles its written off in the restaurant, or a publication they are writing for pays