What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews?

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The discussion revolves around the implications of online reviews for restaurants, particularly how certain words in reviews can predict food safety violations. The conversation also touches on historical theories related to natural phenomena and includes various tangential comments about unrelated topics.

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  • Some participants mention an algorithm that correlates specific words in Yelp reviews with food handling violations and pest presence.
  • One participant expresses skepticism about the findings, suggesting they are obvious.
  • Another post introduces a historical perspective on gravity and natural history, referencing John Woodward's theories about the Flood and its effects on Earth's geology.
  • A later post humorously references a live camera feed of Betelgeuse, noting the repeated failures of predictions regarding its supernova status.
  • One participant shares an anecdote from a river rafting guide about a common question regarding the start and end points of rafting trips.

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Participants do not appear to reach a consensus, as there are multiple competing views and tangential discussions that diverge from the main topic of online reviews.

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Some claims rely on specific interpretations of words and their associations with violations, which may depend on contextual definitions. The historical reference introduces additional complexity that is not directly related to the main discussion.

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Readers interested in the intersection of consumer behavior, food safety, historical scientific theories, and anecdotal experiences in outdoor activities may find this discussion relevant.

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the professors devised an algorithm to identify how review text on Yelp is associated with regulatory inspections. They found that food handling violations are predicted by words like “sick” and “nauseous,” while the presence of pests is predicted by words like “cockroaches” and “filthy.”

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/what-happens-when-restaurants-ignore-online-reviews
 
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One of the new theorists was John Woodward, Gresham professor of physics and an expert on fossils. In his An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695), Woodward put the miracle back into the Flood, but in a wholly novel way – he said that when the rains came, God temporarily suspended gravity, and so waters boiled up out of the deep, and the entire Earth became a thick soup of dissolved rock, water, and living things. When gravity was reestablished, the living things sank according to their density, the soil reformed into rock, and voila, the Earth now had strata with fossils embedded in the rock.

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/john-arbuthnot
 
Hornbein said:
Woodward put the miracle back into the Flood, but in a wholly novel way – he said that when the rains came, God temporarily suspended gravity, and so waters boiled up out of the deep, and the entire Earth became a thick soup of dissolved rock, water, and living things.
It should be noted that by gravity Woodward was referring to a cohesive force that hold matter together not the gravitational force as we know it. see https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/john-woodward
 
Betelgeuse live camera. Supernova predicted in twenty minutes.



The predictions repeatedly fail, but that doesn't stop 'im.
 

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A river rafting guide wrote

The other thing that I hear an unbelievable amount of times is "do we finish where we start?

I have heard this from river rafting guides but I thought maybe they were joking. I guess not.