Taste

Taste

The new way to find a city's best places to eat and drink.

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Taste is a fundamentally different way of finding your city’s best places to eat and drink. Taste helps people find the best local places to eat and drink. Locals get one favorite in each category; one coffee shop, one burger joint, etc.
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What do you think? …

Ross Currie
So, my understanding is that this is urbanspoon but instead of positive/negative review percentage, you're basing a restaurant's score on how many people have favourited this place + number of times they have checked in there with the app. I like the idea of being able to add to a score every time you go back, but I'm not sure about no negative reviews. I get that restaurant owners probably like this feature, but I actually like seeing what people complain about because it gives me context. I feel like restaurant owners should like negative feedback, too - if your restaurant has 300 reviews saying your food is lousy and your wait staff are rude, that's much better feedback than "Nobody is favouriting our restaurant".
Andy Seavers
Maker
@rossdcurrie Absolutely, great feedback. Our initial mindset was that if we add reviews, we might as well just be another review website. We can't be all things to all people. If you want to know where not to go, go to a site with negative reviews. If you want to know the best places come to Taste. I will keep your post in consideration as we move forward.
Ross Currie
@andyseavers "If you want to know where not to go, go to a site with negative reviews. If you want to know the best places come to Taste." That's a really interesting way of looking at it. I shall have to reflect on this :) On a different note, do you guys track things like opening hours? Presumably a restaurant that is only open 2 days a week, or even just for dinner is going to be disadvantaged in the ranking system against a restaurant open 24/7?
Andy Seavers
Maker
@rossdcurrie Please do. Email me at andy@wehavetaste.com with any additional feedback you may have in the future. We pull data from weekly hours of operation. In what way do you feel companies with limited hours are at a disadvantage?
Ram Rayavarapu
@rossdcurrie That's our idea :D I thought of the exact app to develop not too long ago. Glad someone made it.
Ross Currie
@andyseavers If score is weighted on the number of times a favouriter visits the venue, then a restaurant that's open 24/7 is going to receive way more visits than a restaurant open just for dinner... would that not automatically skew 24/7 diners to the top of your ranking?
North McCormick
Is there a reason why the Android app hasn't launched yet? I feel like when you get to the big cities there is actually a very healthy mix of Android and iOS users.
Celine Hau
@northmccormick EXACTLY!! No android, NO-GO outside America
Priyank Patel
I saw "Patent Pending" at the bottom of your website. What is the patent?