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I never take restaurant phone numbers directly off of Google, I always check their (hopefully existent) website before calling, or at least crosscheck it agains
by rhizome 5y ago
I never take restaurant phone numbers directly off of Google, I always check their (hopefully existent) website before calling, or at least crosscheck it against other sources. There is no way Grubhub or any of the other mediating greedholes will get even Caller ID data from me if I can help it.
- InitialLastName 5y agoWait until you find out that Grubhub and ilk have been known to prop up fake websites for places.
- rhizome 5y agoGrubhub et al promoting their own phone number as a restaurant's is exactly what I'm talking about.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoGo to the right address in person. If you have no real-life connection with the restaurant, or any restaurants, give up and take what you get.
- Nextgrid 5y agoWhen a small guy does something like this it's called fraud and heavily punished. When a VC-funded company does this it's called "growth hacking" and applauded.
- Wistar 5y agoRelated. Finding real locksmiths has become so difficult that I have resorted to calling a business across the street and asking them to tell me if there is, in fact, a locksmith at the purported location. Maybe there is a business in physically verifying a given business is the actually the real thing.
- mitchdoogle 5y agoKeyMe are one of the perpetrators of this shady practice. They have vending machines for keys and put them all over the place and then their machines show up when you search for a locksmith. If you call the number their rep will act as middleman to connect you with an actual locksmith and they take a cut. I've decided I will do my searches through https://www.findalocksmith.com/ https://www.findalocksmith.com/ which is from the associated locksmiths of America
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoGoogle used to send a postcard to a business address before adding a listing (in UK at least). Do they not do that now?