The FoodPage Quality Rating Index

According to FoodPage.us Reviews and Ratings of restaurants, the city where on the average a restaurant receives the highest rating score is Phoenix, AZ.

For the fun of statistics here is the complete list of dining perceptions in the most populous US cities. The rating is done on a scale of 1 – 5, with 1 meaning “Poor” and 5 “Excellent”

  1. Phoenix, AZ : 4.519 (Excellent)
  2. Boston, MA : 4.484 (Very Good)
  3. San Francisco, CA : 4.473 (Very Good)
  4. Pittsburgh, PA : 4.321 (Very Good)
  5. Orlando, FL : 4.126 (Very Good)
  6. Los Angeles, CA : 4.119 (Very Good)
  7. Cleveland, OH : 4.101 (Very Good)
  8. Houston, TX : 4.092 (Very Good)
  9. Miami, FL : 4.071 (Very Good)
  10. Brooklyn, NY : 4.035 (Very Good)
  11. Jacksonville, FL : 4.017 (Very Good)
  12. Cincinnati, OH : 4.008 (Very Good)
  13. New York, NY : 3.977 (Very Good)
  14. Sacramento, CA : 3.926 (Very Good)
  15. Detroit, MI : 3.910 (Very Good)
  16. Oakland, CA : 3.909 (Very Good)
  17. Denver, CO : 3.906 (Very Good)
  18. Las Vegas, NV : 3.895 (Very Good)
  19. Bronx, NY : 3.882 (Very Good)
  20. Washington, DC : 3.805 (Very Good)
  21. Philadelphia, PA : 3.804 (Very Good)
  22. Dallas, TX : 3.776 (Very Good)
  23. Chicago, IL : 3.759 (Very Good)
  24. Seattle, WA : 3.758 (Very Good)
  25. Portland, OR : 3.738 (Very Good)
  26. Saint Louis, MO : 3.727 (Very Good)
  27. San Antonio, TX : 3.650 (Very Good)
  28. Indianapolis, IN : 3.643 (Very Good)
  29. Atlanta, GA : 3.583 (Very Good)
  30. San Diego, CA : 3.568 (Very Good)
  31. Minneapolis, MN : 3.557 (Very Good)
  32. San Jose, CA : 3.554 (Very Good)
  33. Austin, TX : 3.474 (Good)
  34. Manhattan, NY : 3.324 (Good)
  35. Baltimore, MD : 3.321 (Good)
  36. Queens, NY : 2.500 (Good)

US Average: 3.90478687365054

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Anger at the negative reviews? Relax. Communicate.

anger

anger never helped anyone

It is now a common routine to get angry emails from restaurant owners saying things along the line of “I want my business removed from your website”, “Your negative reviews are ruining my business”, “Who gave you the right to have my restaurant information on my website”, “Legal action will be taken if all information pertaining to restaurant [so and so] is not removed from foodpage.us”… and so on, and so forth.

It does show in fact a certain degree of immaturity from certain business owners.

Your patrons are your customers, and if they are not happy you should do something to address that, not lash out at a review site.

We hope we see less and less of this type of behavior, and will continue to provide a forum for unbiased reviewing of businesses that we patronize.

In the meantime, everybody relax, and see it from the point of view of everyone involved. Business owners too, invest a lot of energy and effort to serve their patrons; but things do sometimes go wrong.

Let’s work together to make things better, not hide them when they go bad.

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So that you can avoid the rotten pomegranate

The Pomegranates - Painting by Tony Ceci. Copyright FoodPage.us

The Pomegranates - Painting by Tony Ceci. Copyright FoodPage.us

Reviews are now a crucial element in helping you decide the next dining venue, or if you cook , the next place to buy good food. That is why some mediocre places are trying to manipulate this new system of information.

We have received reports of restaurant review sites “offering” restaurant owners a chance to remove negative reviews from their listings, in exchange of a “fee”. Even the largest review sites, such as Yelp are reportedly engaging in this kind of activity.

Here at FoodPage.us we routinely get restaurant owners offering to pay in exchange for having all negative reviews on their profile – removed. Some of them even think that we have no right to mention their establishment – if a negative review is present.

Our position on this matter remains the same – reviewers are opinionated, otherwise they would not write reviews. We have a monitoring system in place, to prevent anything in bad taste appearing in the review section of any establishment, anything else is welcomed.

Restaurant owners are given the chance to respond to a review that they find unfair in the portrayal of their establishment by claiming their listing and signing in to their administration page.

FoodPage.us stands by its principles, in helping you find that rotten pomegranate. Unbiased Reviews are welcome, anything else is not.

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What I want from a Restaurant Website

The results of our Valentine day’s poll are in!

We asked over 100,000 visitors of FoodPage.us the question:

“What I want in a restaurant website?”

This is a summary of the top responses:

  1. A recent menu
  2. Hours of operation
  3. Coupons, Specials and happy hour info
  4. Correct address with a map and phone number
  5. Unbiased Reviews

We also asked the question “What I Do Not want in a Restaurant website?”

The top 3 responses were:

  1. Letter from the founder/owner that no one will ever read, or need to
  2. Flash animation of happy couples stuffing food in each other’s faces
  3. Background music that you have to listen, while trying to locate the menu.

Get on board today with a functional website on FoodPage.us

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