When I was in Dominican Rep 2 times the food at the AI's was tasteless, I mean it was totally tasteless. The resorts were nice and the people were great but the food was terrible.
Where did you go? Dominican Republic is big and not all resorts are the same. Also everybody likes different food, so it's probably hard to please everybody all the time.
We had a customer who stayed at AI and said the food wasn't that great so went and explored the Dominican food from local restaurants and loved it