>You go out to a bar before dinner?
Does it matter? Maybe they wanna look for a bar after dinner then? In which case, you know, the phone is still useful.
>I've always thought of dinner as starting an evening out, or at the very least being part of a plan (eg, Show X followed by dinner at Y)
I'd suggest you look into the idea of spontaneity. It can be pretty great.
The people I know who bother to look at yelp are planners and often choose a restaurant to meet at quite far away because it's special. The people I know who decide things spontaneously don't bother checking yelp.
Since you tried condescending at the end of your comment: I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app. It can be pretty great.
>The people I know [...] The people I know
Are you incapable of escaping from your little corner of the world?
>I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app.
Guess what? I can, and do, do both!
Wow, way to fill in use cases I didn't think of.
> Maybe I'm at the pub with my partner and we decide to get dinner somewhere. I'll use reviews to find something.
You go out to a bar before dinner? I suppose some people do. I've always thought of dinner as starting an evening out, or at the very least being part of a plan (eg, Show X followed by dinner at Y)