WRestaurant ratings identify restaurants according to their quality, using notations such as stars or other symbols, or numbers. Stars are a familiar and popular symbol, with scales of one to three or five stars commonly used. Ratings appear in guide books as well as in the media, typically in newspapers, lifestyle magazines and webzines. Websites featuring consumer-written reviews and ratings are increasingly popular, but are far less reliable.
WEat App is a global restaurant reservation software company. It allows users to search and discover restaurants, and make reservations online. The company charges restaurants for the use of Restaurant Manager by Eat, a reservation and table management system, and a per diner fee for online reservations. According to the company, the system has seated over 6,500,000 guests to date.
WFearless Critic Media is a US publishing house best known for its books The Wine Trials, The Beer Trials, and the Fearless Critic series of restaurant guidebooks to US cities. The publishing house was founded in 2004, merged with Workman in 2008, and currently has eight restaurant guides in print—Austin, Texas, Houston, Texas, Dallas, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut. In 2014, Fearless Critic launched a new nonfiction imprint whose first title will be the March 2015 hardcover Blind Taste: A Defense of Fast Food & Cheap Beer, by Robin Goldstein, author of The Wine Trials. Fearless Critic books are distributed by IPG.
WThe Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1904. The Guide awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few establishments. The acquisition or loss of a star can have dramatic effects on the success of a restaurant. Michelin also publishes the Green Guides, a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries.
WAndré Gayot was a French journalist. Concurrent with his studies, he started his career in 1949 at the ORTF producing a show for a young audience. In 1957, he was a political columnist for the daily newspaper La Liberté du Massif Central, and an editor for Paris-Presse. In 1958, he joined the weekly magazine Jours de France. He was appointed in 1960 director of information of the Republic of Niger where he created the information services and the daily Le Temps du Niger. In 1962, he founded and directed for five years the daily Le Courrier de Madagascar in Antananarivo. He created in 1967 in Martinique the weekly France Antilles Spécial Dimanche. He was in 1968 in Dakar, Senegal, leading the creation of the daily Le Soleil and of Les Nouvelles Imprimeries du Sénégal, both of which paved the way to the plurality and opening of information in French West Africa. Gayot has been active in Canada where he renewed and relaunched the world's oldest French language daily, L'Evangéline. He brought his expertise to the local press in Vietnam, Egypt, Mauretania, Zaïre, Burundi and Iran.
WOpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton on 2 July 1998 and is based in San Francisco, California.
WGilles Pudlowski is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic. He writes the blog les Pieds dans le Plat, writes for Saveurs, Cuisine et Vins de France and Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. He is also the author of the Pudlo guides.
WQaym is an Arabic-language review site specialized at user-based reviews on restaurants around the world. It started as a review site mainly for restaurants in the Arabian region. The website runs a social networking, user review, and local search using the second generation of web Web 2.0. The website is aimed to deliver good restaurant reviews and easy access contents for Arab readers.
WResy is an American technology and media company that provides an app and back-end management software for restaurant reservations. In partnership with Instagram, Airbnb, Facebook, and Google, the app serves over 4,000 restaurants in over 200 cities with reservations predominantly in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London.
WLes Routiers is a company that provides travel guide books for eating out and hotels.
WSquareMeal is a restaurant review and booking website and smartphone app, with reviews of 5,000 London and UK restaurants and bars.
WYelp, Inc. develops, hosts, and markets the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Reservations, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.