That isn't true. What they mean is that you can't find Wonder Bread or Velveeta in a French restaurant, so automatically the food is better. Many of the same tourists even boast that you can't find a bad hotel in France.
Bad hotels are everywhere, even when they are good hotels.
One such, in the alpine resort of Morzine, is Le Tremplin, a charming place, actually, with spacious rooms, nice art on the walls, plenty of hot water and a breakfast buffet above and beyond the usual croissant and coffee. The bill was 500 francs, single occupancy, including breakfast. There was a time, not to sound overly nostalgic for the Pleistocene Era, when a special Tour de France rate meant a lower, not higher, price. Traffic jams were, as they say in the land of Velveeta, monumental. Cars inching down were met head-on by cars inching up, all of them blocked at every turn in the narrow road by the mammoth buses that teams now use to transport riders and equipment.