Espresso News and Reviews – TheShot.coffeeratings.com

It may have been a while, but we have reviewed employee espresso bars before. What’s unusual this time is that the espresso bar doesn’t belong to a coffee business. But when said business is slinging shots of Barefoot Coffee Roasters beans out of UNIC Twin machines, we take an interest. The company in question is [...]

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As we mentioned in our last post a couple days ago, being popular and being good can be two very things. There are few places where this is more apparent than on Web sites that thrive on aggregate public user ratings and reviews. We had intended this article to be about Yelp’s top SF coffee [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_reviews, citysearch, coffee_bar, ratings_bias, ritual_roasters, user_ratings, yelp

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Today a Salon magazine blog touched on the flaws of the many online review sites: Why a five-star restaurant serves one-star food – Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles – Salon. The writer opens with an anecdote about Yelp — a review site that, in my experience, has long epitomized these flaws (see my [...]

Tags: cafe_reviews, citysearch, ratings_bias, user_ratings, user_reviews, yelp

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