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I've never understood the point of Michelin stars or their relative value, compared to, for example, 500 5-star yelp or trip advisor reviews. The last thing I
by antisthenes 9y ago
I've never understood the point of Michelin stars or their relative value, compared to, for example, 500 5-star yelp or trip advisor reviews.
The last thing I care about is advice on food from a tire company. In fact if it wasn't for Gordon Ramsay related conversations, I would have never known Michelin Stars are an actual thing.
- stephencanon 9y agoYou can easily buy 500 5-star yelp reviews. You cannot easily buy a Michelin star.
- viridian 9y agoCan you? I thought yelp and google were very aggressive about burying businesses for this sort of thing. Maybe you could go on fiverr or something and collect a few, but there's no way that yelp doesn't catch 500 fraudulent reviews. They are way too aggressive with false positives as is, such that a good third of my actual reviews are hidden.
- stephencanon 9y agoYelp is notorious for asking business owners to pay to bury bad reviews. You don’t even need to buy good ones if you can sink all the bad. Trip Advisor was recently in the news for having a #1 restaurant in London that didn’t even exist. AFAIK, there have been no such scandals with the Michelin Guide in recent memory.
- antisthenes 9y agoIn spite of all that, Michelin guide is just about as relevant to the average person as the spot price of uranium. When was the last time you heard "this is not a michelin star restaraunt, I won't eat there" ? The answer should be never.