{"id":48732,"date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/48732\/do-bad-restaurant-reviews-impact-the-lebanese"},"modified":"2023-08-11T05:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:32:07","slug":"do-bad-restaurant-reviews-impact-the-lebanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/48732\/do-bad-restaurant-reviews-impact-the-lebanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Bad Restaurant Reviews Impact The Lebanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><Big>The Lebanese love to eat out and love to share their opinion \u2014 put those two elements together and you would expect to find a robust culture of restaurant reviews. But do the Lebanese really make restaurant choices based on reviews? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Yelp<\/a>\u2014the popular restaurant review site\u2014has yet to make its debut in the country, but many Lebanese take to Zomato, Facebook, and other platforms to voice their complaints.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/48732-scaled.png\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Take Grand Caf\u00e9, for example. It has a slew of bad reviews (2\/5 stars) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrandCafebeirut\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">on Facebook<\/a> and the restaurants management seems completely unfazed by it. I went to Grand Caf\u00e9 and talked to some of the diners there to see if online reviews had any part in their decision making process. One diner, Mohammad, 23, told me that he never checks reviews: \u201cI\u2019m coming to eat, I\u2019m not coming to do research.\u201d When I asked him about his thoughts on bad reviews he said: \u201c<i>3adi<\/i> (It\u2019s normal), all restaurants have bad reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Another diner, Leila, 26, told me that she believed that most reviews were personal grudges against the owners of the business: \u201cFor sure, the other restaurants tell their friends and I don\u2019t know who, to write bad reviews. I don\u2019t think a regular person will write one paragraph attack about how bad a restaurant is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Not all diners agreed though. Nadine, 19, said that it was her first time at Grand Caf\u00e9 and after learning about the negative reviews, she said she completely agreed. \u201cThe food was so bad!\u201d she said. When I asked her if she would come back she surprisingly said yes. \u201cI love the sea view, I mainly like it for the view and the nargileh.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  So I guess the consensus is that considering food reviews are not yet the norm\u2014and if you are a restaurant with a sea view, you seem to have little to worry about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><Big>The Lebanese love to eat out and love to share their opinion \u2014 put those two elements together and you would expect to find a robust culture of restaurant reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":411977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-48732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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