Yelp Adds Popular Dishes Feature to Help You Make Up Your Mind
Photo Caption: New England clam chowder at Seattle's Pike Place Chowder is Yelp's most popular dish, as ranked by machine learning technology.
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This small new feature speaks volumes about the way we choose which restaurants to dine at and which dishes to order.
When it comes to dining at restaurants, we eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouths. Over the last decade, we've become conditioned to check ratings and reviews before choosing a restaurant, and photos have become a huge player in the game.
According to a recent survey conducted by TripAdvisor, 94 percent of U.S. respondents reported basing a dining decision off of an online review and 60 percent have been influenced by restaurant photos.
Yelp just unveiled a new feature in its iOS and Android mobile apps: popular dishes. Menu items are ranked as most popular by current Yelp rev
