Restaurant Blogs

from the menuism website:

Can’t find a romantic place for your next date? Tired of your usual watering holes for happy hour? Frustrated while finding the best rainbow roll in town? Problem solved - Menuism takes the pain and frustration out of deciding where and what to eat with features like:

• user reviews for restaurants and dishes - everyone’s a critic!
• user-contributable tags, restaurants and menus - anyone can help!
• simple location-based searching - by tags, restaurant name or dish name!
• social recommendations - make friends and get custom recommendations!

Another word of mouth referral tool.

The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article:
“Amateur reviews changing approach of small businesses
Online ratings: It started with restaurants, and now all manner of enterprises find themselves subject to customer opinions”
The article focuses on the experience of the owner of Cafe Grillades with the amateur reviews posted in yelp.com.
The article posts some tips for taking advantage of opinion sites. For example:
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