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The trouble with Trip Advisor and restaurant reviews

Credits: stuff.co.nz, By Mike Egan, 14th March 2016 This issue of authentication of the customer and whether they had actually dined at a restaurant was exposed recently in France where someone wrote a detailed negative review on a new restaurant called Loiseau Des Ducs several days before it had even opened. The Frenc

‘Disgusting Hotels & Restaurants’

‘Disgusting Hotels & Restaurants’

Type ‘Appalling Hotels London’ into a Google search and it shows 576,000 results. Repeat the exercise, replacing the word ‘hotel’ with ‘restaurant’ – 372.000 results. You can repeat this exercise anywhere with similar results. New York will get 627,000 results for restaurants and 82,700 for hote