We all know these kind of places ; a small food stall selling the best chicken satay, a booth on a corner selling delicious meatballs. These are your favorite places near your neighborhood. You buy food from these kind of places almost everyday. Your local ‘warung’ or ‘warteg’. But, you don’t post photos of them and share it on your social media. Why? Well simply they’re not ‘social media worthy’. These small businesses often are only focused on the quality of their food, not the decor, or other gimmick.
But you know that the food from those fancy beautifully decorated restaurant simply can’t compare to the taste of your local neighborhood food stall. Nowadays, some people are only concerned about the ‘prettiness’ of the food, or the restaurant, so they can post reviews about it. Then what about these ‘hidden’ delicious food stalls? Why do people don’t post and review about them enough?
These food stalls also need new customers. The owners probably don’t know how to market their products well. They don’t know how to capture photos of their menus. Because all their attention already focused on creating the best food possible. Then, as Google Local Guides, we can totally help them! By discovering them, create a new place for them on Maps so people can locate them easily. We can help them by posting pictures of their food, give them reviews.
I have this one favorite Seblak place near where i live. Whenever i buy Seblak from this place i always say to myself ‘damn this is good’. But then i thought to myself ’ Ah, more people should know about this’. I realized that they’re not even on Google Maps! So i created a new place, and hope that other people will start posting pictures too.
Remember, sometimes the best food are not on the internet or social media. They’re hidden amongst us, now it’s our job to help them to be more discoverable