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‘Give us free meals or I’ll put a bad review on TripAdvisor’: Anger at blackmailers using online ratings website to extort free rooms and dinners from hotels and restaurants

‘Give us free meals or I’ll put a bad review on TripAdvisor’: Anger at blackmailers using online ratings website to extort free rooms and dinners from hotels and restaurants

Credits: Mail Oneline By: Sam Webb * Restaurants and hotels report rise in diners dropping website’s name * They threaten to post negative review if they don’t get free food or wine * One steak house owner says alarming trend ‘just isn’t right’ Above excerpts and read the full article on www.dailymail.co.uk/

Online reviews: the rant in restaurant

Online reviews: the rant in restaurant

Credits: The Guardian By: Oliver Thring ‘As a tool for reviewing restaurants the internet is entering a new, less dependable phase. Can any sites which rely on anonymous reviews be trustworthy?’ Above excerpts and read the full article on www.guardian.co.uk

Completely unstoppable & extremely influential

Completely unstoppable & extremely influential

Credits: Eat Out Magazine "Online reviews have been in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. Allegations of sabotage and fake postings are rife leading the Advertising Standards Authority to launch an investigation into reviews of hotels and restaurants. Chris Emmins co-founder of KwikChex, tells us about t