A Review of Reviews.
For all you foodies and non-foodies out there…
I don’t know about ya’ll, but when I’m online looking for reviews, it gets frustrating when they are clearly fake or created by someone in the marketing or PR department. (Especially as a new “southern girl” and resident of Atlanta, I’m running into these issues).
According to a recent article posted on TechCrunch, OpenTable.com guarantees that all of the restaurant reviews are real. OT does this by distributing surveys to recent diners who made reservations through their system and were seated. (I wonder how the restaurants feel about this-good or bad reviews).
OpenTable provides guest management software for restaurants- which then interfaces with the online reservation system. Staff can add or change reservatios manually (syncs with internet reservations), track special requests, VIPs, allergies, cancellation and no-show histories as well as creating client databases (marketing and mailing lists).
If you’re looking for another great site for all-around reviews, check out Yelp.
For photography equipment, I like Digital Photography Review.
I recently discovered Coffee Geek, which reviews coffee makers for the coffee lover as well as how-tos.