Back in 2013, Yelp introduced an attribute that someone who values hygiene above all else would love: restaurants’ health inspection scores. The website has only been displaying ratings on select restaurants’ pages in New York and San Francisco, though, since the feature is part of the company’s Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES) program developed with […]
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I Spent the Night With Yelp’s Robot Security Guard, Cobalt
Cobalt is the latest member in a growing class of autonomous robots developed for commercial spaces. https://media.wired.com/photos/5983a72a6d244035f9d5ee31/master/pass/CobaltHero-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Yelp’s stock surges 27% amid signs of a sharper focus
Yelp’s 5 years as a public company have not always been fun. Founded almost 13 years ago, the social review site hit a low point in May 2015 with rumors that it was seeking a buyer as growth sputtered. Despite being a Web 2.0 pioneer, it has only occasionally managed to post quarterly profits. It’s seen […]
Yelp’s ratings may predict how well restaurants do after a minimum wage increase
Thomson Reuters Some restaurants owners have argued that raising the minimum wage may force them to close, or cut staff. Now a new study suggests that this only really happens to restaurants with lower customer satisfaction ratings as measured by Yelp. In January the minimum wage in Palo Alto, California, increased from $ 11 an hour to $ […]