>The only obvious explanation I can see I think the opinion restaurant owners have of yelp ranges from dislike to outright loathing. Yelp has the reputation o

>The only obvious explanation I can see I think the opinion restaurant owners have of yelp ranges from dislike to outright loathing. Yelp has the reputation of being a bully and essentially extorting restaurants for money. Most of the negativity is probably because of that. If it were someone like Google doing it then there'd probably be a lot less outrage.