Zagat Survey

Zagat Survey
The Zagat Survey /zəˈɡæt/ or zə-GAT was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners; for their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. At its height, ca. 2005, the Zagat Survey included 70 cities, with reviews based on the input of 250,000 individuals with the guides reporting on and rating restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, zoos, music, movies, theaters, golf courses, and airlines...
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A lot of people buy floor seats for the basketball season and pay $2,000 each without batting an eye, ... People spend money to get a great seat at Yankee Stadium, the World Series, or the opera. People who spend that kind of money at restaurants instead are restaurant enthusiasts, and they are willing to pay whatever to get whatever they want.
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You're treated like cattle - but they get fed.
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Take it from a food lover -- there are few places that take restaurants as seriously as the Bay Area. The result is that San Francisco is home to some of the best places to eat in the entire country,
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I had expected it would be bad, but not this bad,
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Service is not a San Francisco problem. It's a national problem, ... It's the largest problem in the restaurant industry in the 71 cities we cover.
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Wolfgang Puck and his wife, Barbara Lazaroff, have it all, ... There are endless people, who are either imitating him or trying to, but it's very hard to imitate somebody who is that good and that creative.
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We have to take a neutral approach, ... We want to be able to work with all of them.
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Today, most people consider just getting there to be the only remaining value in air travel.