Katy McGuinness on 10 years of reviewing: ‘Not everyone is happy when I write about them – one manager had T-shirts printed with a line from a bad review’

When I meet someone for the first time and I tell them what I do for a living, they invariably tell me that they would like my job. Of course they would. Who wouldn’t like going to restaurants, being treated better than all the other customers, and having someone else pay the bill? It’s the best job in the world.