Yelp’s hygiene score cards for restaurants go nationwide

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 […]

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 $ […]