I've never been a fan of Yelp as either a service or a company, but the assumption that they used yelp to look up the phone number isn't warranted here. Yelp's

I've never been a fan of Yelp as either a service or a company, but the assumption that they used yelp to look up the phone number isn't warranted here. Yelp's whole value prop has always been reviews and discoverability, and you're just handwaving that away and claiming that the only relevant workflow here is googling a known restaurant after having made the decision to order and using Yelp's page simply to find the phone number. That isn't to say that I don't think Yelp's behavior here is gross, but the broader picture you paint of pure middleman rent extraction with no value created, eg with: > The person used Yelp solely to look up the phone number of a restaurant. Is circular in that you assume your conclusion and then point to it as evidence.