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more about #dining more comments → rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: This is a problem with a lot of online reviews, you tend to get extremes rather than an accurate reflection of sentiments. After all if you go some pl... more » raincoaster: Yelp is so five nanoseconds ago. It's all about the Foursquare now, baby. signed, Mayor of my own apartment and the off-sales window at the pub. more » sharonckelly: I own a yarn store. Twice a year I get a call from Yelp and am told exactly how much it costs to get the low star reviews moved to the bottom of the l... more » DorothyBarker: This can, weirdly, be seen as defense of print media and 'real' reviewers. I'm sure part of the 'star inflation' simply has to do with the fact that ... more » Matt Cherette: This is why, if I'm going to research a restaurant using consumer reviews, I gravitate toward Zagat. It's probably not terribly different than Yelp, y... more » OldTowneTavern: No shit. I was so disappointed when I used Yelp in New York this year (my hometown let me down!). It sent me to crap delis, bakeries and restaurants... more » morninggloria: Yelp sounds a lot like Yale. more » TheBusinessGuy: The Wall Street Journal recently did a story, available on the web only to subscribers, about how reviewers on rating sites consistently award such hi... more » mfnher: People don't feel inclined to write reviews on restaurants that are three star worthy. One is much more likely to spend the energy writing reviews on ... more » raincoaster: Whoring your reputation out for 20% of a burger and coleslaw? And I thought I was cheap. more » Scott Kidder: The shrimp were delicious. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: but if they didn't like it why would they go back even at 20 percent off? more » SeaBassTian: What the hell were the Madoffs doing in the decidedly downscale Mount Olympos Diner in Yonkers? I mean no disrespect, but if I had his cash flow and I... more » lobstr: My MasterCard bill never breaks down tip amounts in my statements... is AmEx special that way? more » i'm a bottle: The Per Se tip, $60 on a $1200 tab can be accounted for by the fact that there's a 20% service charge already included. It's the same with Outback wi... more » -
#dining
On Yelp, Every Restaurant is Very Special
Reviewers on Yelp aren't very discerning: They award four or five stars 69 percent of the time (see chart). The local ratings website could combat this by grading on the curve, but would rather force you to click around. More » -
#dining
The New Restaurant Bribery
The Web was supposed to disintermediate business, replacing corruptible middlemen with accurate information fed directly to consumers. But judging from the restaurant industry's experience, it may have just made corruption more widespread and louche. Just look at this receipt: More » -
#datadig
Eater has pulled the restaurant charges from the Madoffs' AmEx records. They weren't horrible tippers.
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#picoftheday
'Do You Have Anything Open Outside?'
[Diners are served an alfresco meal at the summit of Latrigg, in England's Lake District, as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival; image via Getty] -
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#headlineoftheday
"Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay Accidentally Burns His Genitals" [Feed Syndicate]
