SF News Yelp Begins Rolling Out Restaurant Inspection Scores Think your neighborhood takeout joint might be kind of gross? Don't just take some Yelper's word for it: soon, the amateur restaurant reviews site will be posting official restaurant hygiene scores from public
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Dramatic Reading Of A Shuttered Restaurant's Letter To Lousy Yelpers Last week, we reported the sad news that 10-month-old restaurant Jake's on Market was shutting its doors and bidding adieu to both the neighborhood and the amateur critics that the owners felt contributed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered Castro Restaurant Leaves Behind Pointed Message To Lousy Yelpers Jake' s on Market took over the old 2233 space on Market Street earlier this year. Within 10 months, it closed. Alas. But with one final farewell, the owners called out bad Yelp
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Sets Up Sting Operation To Bust Paid Reviews Yelp has finally cracked down on companies caught offering cash in exchange for positive reviews that can make or break a business. The San Francisco-based company revealed to the New York Times that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One-Star Yelp Reviews Of Four-Star Restaurants Let's all take a minute to laugh at these awesome, uncouth monsters, as well as their pedestrian palates, for writing one-star reviews of four-star restaurants. Inspired by the Gurgling Cod's peek at a
SF News Half a Star Can Make a Big Difference on Yelp In a study that gives new meaning to the term "dismal science," a pair of economists have found that a restaurant whose Yelp rating goes up by just half a star is more
SF News Yelp Claims Space in Historic Pacific Telephone Building The historic, Art Deco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph building at 140 New Montgomery is undergoing a major renovation as we speak, and they just signed their first major tenant: Yelp. As the Chron
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Favorite Part Of Bi-Rite's 'Sweet Cream & Sugar Cones' Involves '80s Ice Cream, Yelper Love April is a big one for ice cream and print publishing. Two noted ice cream shops in the Mission District, Bi-Rite Creamery and Humphry Slocombe, are coming out with recipe books. So, if
SF News Yelp Stock More Than Doubles After IPO Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning as Yelp's sparkling IPO debuted. Shares of the stock climbed as astounding 61 percent to
SF News Yelp Finally Going Public, Files for IPO Yelp, the locally based creative outlet for many a bored foodie, is finally going public. After turning down a $500 million buyout from Google last year, the local reviews site has filed for
SF News Yelp Considers Going Public, Even Without Changes to the Payroll Tax In an interview with the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the paper that "an IPO is back on the table" for the local reviews site. After accepting a cool
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Warns Users of 'Hipster' Establishments The indetitagible Allan Hough at Mission Mission brings us news that Yelp now offers a 'hipster' (e.g., people who call themselves 'nerds') denotation in the ambience field. As the image here shows,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Internet Publishing Intern Bummed to Learn Attractive Restaurant Workers Read Her Yelp Reviews Over on the SF Business Times Bay Area BizTalk blog (five times fast), Biztern Bridget Riley has written up a review of her thoughts on a recent interaction between Yelper and Yelpee. After
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat Gets Yelp-ified "Is it too little, too late for Zagat?" That's what TechCrunch asked after Zagat finally - finally! - gave its site a much-needed facelift. The new site boasts Zagat restaurant reviews, new stats,
SF News Meg Whitman to Visit Yelp HQ Today At around 3 p.m. today, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman will visit Yelp headquarters at 3 p.m. San Francisco Young Democrats urge: "Meg Whitman will be at the Yelp company HQ
SF News Yelp Reveals Hidden Reviews It Automatically Filters Poor Yelp. In addition to seeing lunatic business owners breaking into their downtown office--a recent incident, at least according to our sources--they're continually hit with allegations of manipulating users' feedback on businesses that
SF News Yelp Walks Away from Google Deal That's right, folks. According to TechCrunch, Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman walked away from the all-but-signed deal to sell the company to Google for a reported $550 million. Given that there is no other
SF News Google to Acquire Yelp? Google is apparently in serious talks to acquire Yelp, the user-generated, local-business review site so beloved by Humphry Slocombe and certain antique and book store owners. The deal would do good things for
SF News Ocean Avenue Books Owner, Not So Nutso After All? Earlier this week we told you about the owner of Ocean Avenue Books who, after receiving a less than glowing Yelp review, went crazy on Yelper "Sean C.," showed up at his front
SF News Ocean Avenue Books Owner Turns Violent Over Bad Yelp Review Ryan Tate at Valleywag has a phenomenal story about the sanity-estranged owner of Ocean Avenue Books. The owner, after reading a negative review on the interwebs about her store, found the reviewer and
misc Bed Bug Allegations Via Mission Mission, a Yelper took it upon herself to warn fellow customers of a local bookstore that she had allegedly gotten bed bug bites while sitting and reading Twilight in one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Shakedown: Humphry Slocombe Eater brings us word that Mission district ice cream it girl Humphry Slocombe experienced its very first Yelp bullying. (Aw. You always remember your first.) Humphry Slocombe's Twitter message describes the assault: "Our
misc Local Business Overreacts to Mediocre Yelp Review Special thanks to the on-the-ball tipster who informed SFist of this humorous yet slightly disturbing occurrence surrounding Yelper Marie K.'s 3-star review of Perish Trust, an antique store on Divisadero Street, last
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misc Yelp Still Freaking Users Out Here's yet another story on how Yelp are bullies, via Eater. Robert, a coffee blogger in Vancouver had signed up for a Yelp account a few weeks ago, but didn't do anything with
