restaurants

Restaurants
related: food

Essay I have mixed feelings about food review sites. Living in Oaxaca, Mexico, quite a few review sites simply don't exist, including Yelp and Urban Spoon. When they did cover restaurants, they rarely covered the places my friends owned, so I used the opportunity to document the Sanchez Pascuas and Pochote Xochimilco markets, Comala and Grupo Lula'a, to guide visitors to these places. And it worked!

Next Tuesday we are picking up the discussion of peer reviewed travel sites -- https://plus.google.com/b/117694449145790663688/events/cumn4bk20uro2cs2fqm7c3dne9g - and we'll look at practical strategies for local business owners and travelers. #1 on my list would be to cultivate positive word of mouth among locals. With that locked in, the positive and more trusted ratings and reviews will follow.

Questions
What is the best way for diners to give good feedback to restaurants?

Tips
Take the time to walk people to the bathroom

Headlines
[|How Waiters Read Your Table - WSJ]

Recommended Listening
[|Origins of the restaurant] Ever wondered where the very first restaurant originated? Ancient Rome, China and France are all on the cards -- but which was it? Alan Saunders from //The Philosopher's Zone// has been investigating for //RN// //First Bite//.

Services http://www.singleplatform.com/restaurants/

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_of_House

Facebook [|El Naranjo] (Austin)

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