Yelp, the popular crowd-source review site, will now offer Los Angeles County’s health grades for restaurants as part of its reviews. With public health grades for restaurants happening in more and more cities, including New York, will this become a trend? DETAILS
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Then maybe for a next step Yelp might add health grades for the cities in which the restaurants are located.
This is a first for both Yelp and the County Health Department, so I guess we’ll have to view it as a pilot project before any other areas get added. I’m wondering (and I’m sure Yelp is, too) what effect it will have on discussion, and on user choices.