Yelp

[Larry T. Spider 1747]

Read the reviews of people that left UT one star and typed 3 or more paragraphs. It’s a great mental illness screener. 

[RDCanecutter 26854]

I am surprised that people read reviews of restaurants. I just go to places and eat. I'm a daredevil.

[CooterBrown 18272]

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

I opened the Yelp app today and discovered there's a new restaurant over by the mall called Zoup! that I didn't know about. It probably just opened in the last month. It's been that long since I drove by there. It's a soup and sandwich place. They also serve "bowls" so I'm betting that it's probably built on the Chopotle model. There were only three reviews, all too glowingly positive to take seriously. But I'll probably try it out soon just to see how it is. I'll keep my expectations low. 

I went to their website. They started in Detroit, their first franchise was in Ann Arbor. Sounds sketchy. But I like a good bowl of soup so I'll give it a shot. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21260]

We have a few Zoups in my area, and I would often go there for lunch. 

It used to be awesome, but their corporate management keeps fucking with things that aren't broken and making them worse. For example, they used to have a bunch of different bread types, and they were all good. Then they slowly started getting rid of them, one by one. Then they switched to only having some terrible shitass ciabatta that always seems stale. 

If you ever check it out, don't get too attached to any one thing, because those buttfucks will eventually tweak it into terribleness or just flat out get rid of it. 

But the 10-15 different soups each day are usually good. Or at least they were before I finally got fed up with their bullshit and vowed never to return. 

In conclusion, fuck Yelp and fuck Zoup. 

[ChiTownDoc 21325]

Yelp in Canada is hilarious.  They're all so fucking nice, a god damn McDonald's will be 4 stars.  

"Found a pube in my soup, disgusting"  3 stars

Edited December 13, 2018 by ChiTownDoc

[Nice Guy Eddie 13708]

I use yelp to remind me of restaurants in a part of town when no one can think of where to go.  Yelp’s map is better than google for a flyby of restaurants.   I assume they highlight the paying customers.  

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

I tried Zoup! today. It definitely just opened in the past few weeks. It's in the building that used to house the Sears Tire and Auto Shop. There's also a Starbucks, an AT&T Store, and something else I didn't catch the name of. 

It was about what I was expecting. A Chipotle for soups and sandwiches. None of the soups looked very appealing. I went with the gumbo. It was pretty lame. It was supposed to have chicken and sausage in it. I couldn't identify any sausage. There was a lot of shredded meat that I took to be chicken, and there were larger cubes that were fibrous like chicken but seemed kind of like processed mystery meat. I had to add a good bit of habanero Tabasco in order to give it some kick. I wouldn't order that stuff ever again. 

I also got a half Southwest Turkey sandwich. The bun wasn't too bad. There wasn't a lot of meat. The best thing about the chipotle mayo was that there wasn't too much of it. I really couldn't taste the chipotle. I wouldn't order that sandwich again. I don't think I'd trust them to make a decent club sandwich either so I doubt I'll ever go back. 

I'd give them 2 stars. 

[Napoleon 8802]

 

[Aqua Buddha 14782]

On 12/10/2018 at 5:18 PM, Gil Bang said:

Pizza place in my town is highest rated in the CA by Yelp.  

It's average at best. 

 

Along with this, we ate at some bar/grill type place in San Francisco a few weeks ago.  Five star Yelp reviews everywhere.  Place sucked ass and was over priced.

I suspect something like the OP was going on here.

[Fudge Nuggets 19407]

On 12/12/2018 at 4:45 PM, Larry T. Spider said:

Read the reviews of people that left UT one star and typed 3 or more paragraphs. It’s a great mental illness screener. 

People write reviews of universities on Yelp?  That sounds pretty stupid. 

[CooterBrown 18272]

Yelp has a 2-star review on Yelp.