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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by specialp on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:19PM (#23945085)
I think in general people know how to filter out the "Karens". Also I find that restaurants are actually overrated in general. People are more likely to give a 5 star rating to an average restaurant than vice versa. People at least me try to filter out the person that complains about petty stuff vs the real problems. And I also realize when places first open they are working the kinks out.

But more often than not I go to a place that is rated very good but is actually not that good. And usually the bad rated places are indeed bad.

Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by mikepurvis on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:24PM (#23945112)
Totally, but that depends how many people actually dig into the reviews to figure what specifically was liked or disliked (and to make their own assessment of the reviewer's judgement), and how many just go by the top-level aggregated number.