SF News Viral Video Leads to Onslaught of Complaints About Deluxe Dog Hotel In SF One local woman's TikTok video about her dog Miso's recent stay at a Wag Hotel in San Francisco has sparked a round of expected online outrage from the dog-owning community.
SF News Yelp Reviewers Claimed For Years That Tenderloin Quickly Was Selling Stolen Goods, and Was Curiously 'Cash Only' A Larkin Street Quickly boba shop has been accused by the DA of trafficking stolen goods, but that allegation has been sitting in plain sight in their Yelp reviews, and draw your own conclusions on why the shop was “cash only.”
Business & Tech Yelp Reportedly Downsizing Its SF Headquarters; 14 Floors Of 140 New Montgomery Up For Grabs All 14 floors that Yelp occupies at the historic Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. Building at 140 New Montgomery have been made available for lease this year, in another of a cascade of moves that have shaken up the once hot SF office market.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Allowing Users To Out Businesses and Restaurants for Violating COVID-19 Guidelines The San Francisco-based company synonymous with publishing crowd-sourced reviews on local businesses will now allow users to post complaints about businesses violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
SF News 'Karen'-Inspired Billboard Pops Up in SF To Call Out Rude Online Restaurant Reviewers Bay Area eateries have been plagued by a recent onslaught of piss-poor reviews on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor — not related to food, mind you... but in regards to enforcing mandated COVID-19 safety measures and issues with third-party delivery drivers.
SF News Yelp Data Shows 5,000 San Francisco Area Businesses Have Closed Since Pandemic Began It’s been an unprecedented, extinction-level time for small businesses across the nation. Moreover, new findings from Yelp reveal that some 5,000 SF area businesses have closed since the global health crisis started — with over 2,000 of them now permanently shut down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Adds a Little COVID-19 Widget to List Restaurants’ Safety Precautions The voluntary listing of precautions, like whether they provide hand sanitizer, is a new feature that restaurants can list on their Yelp page if they choose to.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Bar and Restaurant Owners Furious to Find Out Yelp Has Launched Fundraisers on Their Behalf Yelp has never exactly been seen as a friend to the Bay Area restaurant community so much as a necessary evil they've begrudgingly had to live with for a decade and a half, so a forced fundraiser effort isn't being taken too kindly by some.
Business & Tech Now 15 Years Old, Yelp Is Gung-Ho on Letting Its Users Shape Their Search Yelp — the crowd-sourced review forum virtually everyone visits before heading to a new eatery — is (finally) giving users the ability to personalize their profiles to appease certain dietary and lifestyle needs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Says Instagram Has Replaced Yelp We've heard it all before when it comes to gripes about Yelp, why many in the food scene hate it, and why many avid diners think it's indispensable nonetheless. But here's one more
SF News Doom And Gloom From Analysts As Yelp Stock Tumbles And Advertisers Flee The suspicions raised by some increasingly frequent (and frantic) voicemails left by Yelp ad salespeople for local businesses were borne out this week, when the crowdsourced ratings site announced first-quarter earnings that led
SF News Exorbitant Tech Company Intern Pay Appears, Tragically, To Drop It's no secret that the "unpaid internships" even the most qualified of us might have been offered in years past have been replaced at many tech companies by rates nearly twice America's median
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Study Links Yelp Ratings With SF Restaurant Closures A new study by a pair of Harvard Business School researchers, focusing on Bay Area restaurants between 2008 and 2016, found that minimum wage hikes do indeed impact restaurants' ability to stay in
Arts & Entertainment Allegations Of Bed Bug Infestation At 1000 Van Ness Movie Theater Persist Gather round, children, while I tell you a tale of long ago. The year was 1998, the month was July, and the only decent multiplex in San Francisco was the Kabuki. Sure, there
SF News Yelp Feature Will Tell Users If Businesses Have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms San Francisco-based ratings company Yelp is getting five stars from LGBTQ advocates today. After stepping up yesterday to participate in an amicus brief supporting trans student Gavin Grimm in his lawsuit against a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Dirtiest Restaurants Might Be Paying To Improve Their Health Scores Pop quiz, hotshot: There's a bunch of rat turds in your kitchen. Once a city inspector sees them, your health score drops. If it drops to SF's bottom 5 percent, Yelp places a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Is Yelping Mad That Google Is Boosting Zagat Links Over Theirs Reviews from Google-owned Zagat are, predictably enough, going to be popping up in your restaurant searches above those from Yelp (and Trip Advisor), as a new mobile search function highlighting the best food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Bites Back At Companies Suing Customers Who Leave Negative Reviews There was a time when a customer wrote a negative review of a business on Yelp, that business might reach out via email and try to gently persuade said customer to reconsider their
SF News Yelp Is Responsible For Taking Down Defamatory Reviews, Court Rules Yelp is responsible for removing defamatory comments from its site, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday. According to Courthouse News Service, the ruling stems from a 2013 lawsuit between a client and her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Food Network Is Letting Yelpers Have A TV Show At this late date, Yelpers are finally going to get a nationally televised stage from which to deliver their amateur snark about restaurants they do not like or, to use a phrase popular
SF News Single Mother Alleges Mistreatment And Unjust Dismissal By Yelp Following shortly on the heels of last month's open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman accusing him of paying his employees less than a livable wage, a single mother working in Yelp's sales
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Note To Yelp: Stop Trying To Make 'DivCo' Happen Back in the heyday of the Bold Italic, the website and its events team tried to do a "micro-hoods" thing where they rechristened familiar sections of the city with their own, non-realtor-approved monikers
SF News Open Letter To Yelp CEO (Allegedly) Gets Employee Fired A Yelp entry-level employee making $733.24 bi-weekly wrote an open (and very long) letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman on Medium complaining of her paycheck, various company practices, and reliance on rice
SF News Crazed Yelper Allegedly Harassing Other Yelpers Who Leave Negative Business Reviews Well this is a weird one. Apparently someone is threatening to harm Yelp customers who post negative reviews of a San Francisco-based plumbing company. When the plumbing company owner was presented with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Explicitly Warning You Off Restaurants With Poor Health Scores The restaurant review site Yelp unveiled a new feature this October — one that is sure to win friends among consumers and make (even more) enemies among restaurant owners. The new feature updates a
