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People go to restaurants for lots of different reasons. That's what a 5-star rating system doesn't capture. I think simply rating "I am/not likely to eat there
by logn 11y ago
People go to restaurants for lots of different reasons. That's what a 5-star rating system doesn't capture. I think simply rating "I am/not likely to eat there again" would be more appropriate. A site could aggregate enough of that data to find users with similar tastes to you. I.e., Yelp should be more like Pandora and less like Rolling Stone.
I don't know anything about this particular restaurant but it seems like he's accidentally targeting the wrong audience. Wine pairing menus, fancy plating, an article in Vice, Kickstarter... none of these things strike me as targeting his desired customer, which is someone with modest expectations and expecting just dinner, not an event to review.
- ajmurmann 11y agoThis actually is a huge pet peeve of mine. It's most obvious with extendingl extremely specific needs like vegetarians for example. It drives me nuts when I read yelp reviews that rate a restaurant low because they don't offer good vegetarian alternatives. It is obviously an issue, but it should be trivial for yelp to exclude that recite from the rating that they show to non-vegetarians. Less obvious examples that are a related but different issues are reviews by people who clearly don't know what they are talking about. Looking at reviews of high end Spanish restaurants in the Basque country, I really don't care about reviews that start out with "This was my first visit to a restaurant with a Michelin star...". I'm not trying to be snobby, but I'd much rather have the review by someone who had been to a ton of then in the same area weighed much higher. Edit: I wonder if there is a great opportunity for some disruption here. Well be tough do to overcome yelps moat. I would love to work on this!