Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by flukus on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:36AM (#20631997)

I don't find reviews helpful at the best of times, food is simply too subjective. Some people want "authentic" dishes, others want anglicized (think texmex) versions, each will give poor rating to the other. Some people will want something sweet others will find the sweetness too strong. Everyone has a different definition of "too spicy". "Restaurant" is often to granular too, sometimes a good place will have some bad dishes, should I care about the reviews of people that bought those dishes?

For me finding good restaurants is still a trial and error process that technology can't improve on.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by aembleton on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:42AM (#20632940)

It could use your ratings of restaurants to inform which reviewers to give more weighting to when giving you reviews of other restaurants.

Google maps is doing this now. I hope it catches on.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by duxup on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:54AM (#20634682)

That would be nice.

I'd love to not see all the reviews from "This guy who thinks Dominoes Pizza is the best pizza."

Like I might eat it too and it's ok... but man I don't want that guy's opinion on other pizza places.

I do wonder how a system like that might evolve ... if it even does. Google News determined I like a certain sports team. I do not, but it shows me news from them endlessly and not the team I like no matter how much direct feedback I provide..... Tastes change, that system could make Maps kinda useless if someone's tastes change but they get a bunch of garbage reviews.

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