Don't know if the accusations are true but I would take Yelp reviews with many grains of salt. Its not the truth I question rather its the extreme subjectivity.

Don't know if the accusations are true but I would take Yelp reviews with many grains of salt. Its not the truth I question rather its the extreme subjectivity. Some people care about service, some don't; some care about decor, some don't. Different people have different tastes as well as different price sensitivity. Yelp reviewers are also self selecting both in who is more prone to write reviews and under which circumstances that will drive someone to write reviews. So if you really want to figure out how good a place is for you, by all means use Yelp as a resource. But you need to review the reviewers to see what their leanings and expertise are and then read their reviews with that understanding in mind.