The shops that won’t accept cash is almost nothing. (Surprisingly, there are a bit in Tokyo.) Until recently, most of the shops have not accepted cashless payments. But from this year, many companies in Japan started cashless payment services. They are not only easy but also a good deal because their cashback campaigns are competitive.
And the people who won’t have cash like me are also increasing lately. I hope the shop owners to notice the importance of cashless payments from our reviews:-)
Thanks for your detailed comment @Ambreen !! You’ve taken reviewing to a whole new level with your fine tuning!! I’ve tried to keep it fairly simple and even then, I very much doubt there would be interest in the general public to provide such detailed analysis.
I’m not familiar with the Google My Business side of things, but I would hope that when an owner claims a map listing, they would be given a form to provide as much detail about their site such as business type (restaurant, bar etc and even drill down to the sub categories like Japanese, Chinese, Indian food etc), facilities on site (toilets, meeting rooms, etc), services (sports TV, live music, WiFi etc) and so on. All these info should be on the maps listing so that visitors like ourselves don’t actually have to touch on them in our reviews. We could mention their quality (e.g. good WiFi speed, no login required) but not necessarily have to say whether it’s available or not because the owner should do that.
In the ideal world, GMB will gather and surface all the hard details whilst Local Guides can focus on the soft details ie the experiences and quality! In any case, it’s awesome to see what you’ve done and to see just the amount of detail that you go through!! Thanks for sharing!!
The two advantages of a 10-point rating are that it is even and has no middle, and that 1 and 10 are rarely evaluated. The evaluator is therefore required to double check that his / her evaluation is correct.
Thanks @AdrianLunsong so true ,I agree with you the business on Google maps should have all the details about important customer questions based on which people can plan their visit. I am not sure but is the business registration and verification process easy on maps? and does the local guide team verify these business locations? I think we can avoid alot of misinformation on maps if the business listing process itself has the mandatory required information, which is verified and only then a business listing is made live? That will definitely be easier for local guides as well
Hi @AdrianLunsong thank you for sharing. FAACTS, what a useful tool to create a great review. I like detailed review, especially adding the cost which I always do on my culinary review. So that, I could help people in finding restaurant that suits with their budget.
Thanks for educating on the best practices on how to rate and write about a point of interest. You did touch all the salient nuggets that usual make a local guide to contemplate on his/her ratings. The method on how to append a point to criteria on the list and taking a summary of them to find the average is particularly helpful.
FAACTS, is I believe to be the right way and a way forward in designing those review templates. I still believe that if Google pushes some sort of review templates, it will help to get more accurate, structured and honest reviews in future.
Wow, I really enjoyed reading your tips on writing reviews and I must say they’re helpful.
Talking about including price(s) of the item(s) you got, I want to add that including the time/period you got the item(s) could be useful too as prices are likely to change with time.
Sometimes I find that it’s not as easy for me to start a comment. Well, if I love or dislike a place a lot, then yes, there’d be no problem. But if it’s just a so-so place, like the place I’d forget the next day, it’s kinda hard for me to write a comment. However, I think based on the tips you suggest, I could better express.
You must be a mind reader! Just today I discovered a new spot and wanted to give a really useful review, but I didn’t know how. Well, now I do! I will be using your structure from now on! Great job, and thanks @AdrianLunsong !
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