There was just recently an article about Yelp’s “extortion” of restaurants. Apparently, in order to get help on some negative reviews, retaurants have to pay $350 a month for a business account. This may not be a big deal for food chains, but for a small mom/pop restaurant, it’s downright unaffordable. Here’s the article:
Now, I’m not saying Yelp isn’t a good tool, but you should take it with a grain of salt and supplement your research with smaller sites like WhiteCarrot.com (shameless plug).



