people that YELP are scumbags

schef im pretty sure i no two ppl thatve posted reviews but a least yr friend isnt "Aryan D"

Totally not what I expected coming from a local Chinese restaurant.

I went here on a weekend with a few friends and it was pretty dead. The place was extremely clean and the furniture still looked new. I did find it odd upon entering that the statues were holding U.S. flags....

Anyways, the menu differentiated itself from others in that they made certain that their "health conscious" business model was portrayed. Great selection and I ended up getting the Sesame Chicken lunch special which came with soup and egg roll for $7. Service was great but I'd like to see how it is on a busy day.

The only suggestion I'd make is to have fortune cookies that give you better...fortunes.

I'll admit that this review is a bit biased because my friend's dad owns this restaurant and I told her I'd give it a try. It was voted "Best of LA" this year and even had the Yelp sticker on the outside which surprised me. I had high expectations and it met them.

I hate to see your unbiased review dude.

Before you read my review and why I gave this place only two stars, I'm putting up full disclosure that I am 1) a male, so I would never be shopping here for myself - 2) a 4XL-sized male with a not-XS girlfriend, so the store refuses to believe any fat people could be "Forever 21" - and 3) a person who knows NOTHING about fashion and thanks the Lord every day to remember to wear a shirt and pants and couldn't give a rat's ass whether or not they "match".

See that grain of salt over there? That's what you should take my advice with.

That out of the way, this store apparently thinks that 21-year-olds (that you should "Forever" aspire to be like) are loud, obnoxious, whorish, antisocial, devious and horrifically disorganized. Either that or it doesn't understand what people think when they see a store labeled "Forever 21".

I always thought that the music system in a store/business was meant to entice the patrons and lull them into a sense of comfort, like casinos do. This place throws that notion out the window, then records the sound of all that window-glass shattering, and loops it at about 100 decibels until you're clawing at your ears to rip them off and end your suffering. I'm not at all a "hep cat" (or however the youths are saying that nowadays), but I do have a wide range of music knowledge at my disposal. And that sounds like a garbage disposal.

If there's one thought that undoubtedly runs through the minds of these clerks 21 (and forever) times a day, it must be "This place would be great - if it weren't for the customers!" Let me tell you something, Forever 21 executives. The idea of being "forever 21" is supposed to appeal to PEOPLE OLDER THAN 21 because they wish they could be forever at that perfect age without growing old, like they are currently doing. So how in the name of all that is good and right in this world did you pick a target demographic who is 14-18 years old? These pubescent sticks of hormones wouldn't know 21 without the aid of a time machine - so how can allow them to strive to be Forever 21?

This store would be 30 times better if there were a bouncer at the door blocking women who couldn't present a valid I.D. - and it would be 300 times greater if it served alcohol. Something for the menfolk - other than the clothes themselves...

Whorish (adj.): a word to describe the clothing at Forever 21. Done.

We wandered the store for about 25 minutes in total and I was asked ONE TIME, "are you finding everything you need?" I was not, because what I needed was for the store to sell more than 2 items in the size XL, neither of which I had located. Unfortunately, before I could verbally get any of that out, the clerk had been distracted by something shiny and walked away. Perhaps her hearing had been permanently damaged by the "music" and thought she heard me say "yes", so she was free to leave.

As for the deviousness and disorganization, it's rampant. Every "sale" sign in the place has those words "and up" attached to them, so by the time I've found something almost passable to purchase (after digging through stacks of items not sorted by size or anything useful or located near any similar items), I find out it's twice the price of the other stuff. I'm fully aware that more material is needed to create an XL shirt than an XS - but people who can fit in an XS are too young to be shopping at this store. Or need to eat something, please!

I'm frankly waiting for the revolution to begin. The overweight are outnumbering the underweight, and all of these stores selling to the "pretty people" and offer nothing above a size L need to be driven out of business. Yes, there will always be a size S in a department store for you - that doesn't mean we should have a nationwide chain of stores that ONLY sell size S. And yes - I plan on posting this in every review I write of businesses who think that they don't have the obligation to offer clothing in sizes that are becoming more of the norm.

Of course, those other stores might have a title that doesn't show complete disregard for itself like "Forever 21" does. Then again, if a store were built around my 21st year eternally, it would sell sweatpants and Nacho Cheese Doritos. So grab that grain of salt, because this is the end of my rant:

I guess I'd have to recommend this store to whorish teens who long to be 21 years old - and suggest that anyone who has survived that year and knows of the horrors of vomit-stained carpets from binge drinking that should not be revisited forever avoid this place like the plague.

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http://www.yelp.com/biz/pedros-spanish-american-restaurant-brooklyn

there are two reviews bitching about how no one came and took their orders and how long it took to get waiter service in a joint that does not have waiters (and clearly says so in yelp's little summary up top)

search on the word "hipster" on a lot of these reviews and you'll see it's a worse strawman on yelp than it is on ilx.

"But after a few, we moved to the room with the DJ, and we couldn't stop dancing."

- from a yelp review of a place I go that doesn't have any DJs

i find myself looking at one-star reviews on yelp more than 5-star reviews, and if the 1-star person sounds like a douchebag, usually the place will be ok

^^^

yeah that is pretty much a truism.

yes - esp. reviews where the person talks about how much they spent/were going to spend at the place (works at all price levels).

one of the reviews of pedro's literally called the "waitress" retarded -- i mean, buddy, she's not the one who sat herself down on a bench outside a taco shack and then expected to have a waitress??

there was an article in my local (lol) alt-weekly abt how yelp manipulates the order of positive/negative reviews to try and sell advertising. tell them to screw and they'll put all the neg reviews of your establishment at the top. f dis service.

Maybe a retarded woman sat down beside her and tried to take her order.

i hate those bullshit reviews that are basically dialogues of what occurred at the restaurant, usually casting the server/manager/clerk as this incredibly irredeemable douchebag and the reviewer as this patient and rational customer. usually they read something like

ME: Do you have any steak?
WAITRESS (snooty voice): Sorry, this is a VEGAN restaurant.
ME: Uh, okay, just wondering.
WAITRESS (bitchy voice): I can make other recommendations.
ME (taken aback): Yeah, I guess.

I have a friend that is on yelp, and he mostly uses it to give low scores to places that close early or are not open during their listed hours. He also gave a 1 star review to the post office - one institution that is not going to give a rat's ass about yelp reviews.

that would explain a lot! such as my burning question, how the fuck did she get her order taken to begin with?

xpost yeah right? ppl who go into vegan places/steakhouses/burger shacks when they are not the person who would eat that should stfu forever -- how hard is it to NOT go to a vegan place or a steakhouse? i manage to avoid both very easily, all of the time.

xp call all destroyer: The East Bay Express or was there another alt-weekly yelp expose?

im a-ok with yelp giving reviews to hilarious stuff like post offices and bus stops and fire hydrants and schizophrenics

Yelp needs to implement a reviewer-quality ordering system for the reviews. Maybe color-coded too. Low-rated reviewers are at the bottom and have sickly vomit-colored borders on their reviews. High-rated reviewers get burrito-borders or something.

What were George W's yelp ratings like?

xp libcrypt: But who would be evaluating the quality - other yelp reviewers?

Maybe. Or maybe do it like Urbandictionary.com.

i dont think that would help anything, people are fucking retarded

We can always ditch this useless "democracy" thing and go back to reading reviews of restaurants written by people whose job it is to review restaurants.

sarahel it was in boston's weekly dig

food is the only area where i will put a decent amount of faith in a single critic over howling masses on the internet

This is a link to the East Bay Express yelp story

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/yelp_and_the_business_of_extortion_2_0/Content?oid=927491

and a follow up:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/yelp_extortion_allegations_stack_up/Content?oid=946025

Of course, there are lots of comments!

We can always ditch this useless "democracy" thing and go back to reading reviews of restaurants written by people whose job it is to review restaurants.

much better way to go, imho

a good food critic is a hell of a thing

i hate those bullshit reviews that are basically dialogues of what occurred at the restaurant, usually casting the server/manager/clerk as this incredibly irredeemable douchebag and the reviewer as this patient and rational customer. usually they read something like

ME: Do you have any steak?
WAITRESS (snooty voice): Sorry, this is a VEGAN restaurant.
ME: Uh, okay, just wondering.
WAITRESS (bitchy voice): I can make other recommendations.
ME (taken aback): Yeah, I guess.

^ haha just found an actual one of these for a local place...

They actually SNEERED at me when I deigned to ask if they had milk to go with the coffee. Seriously, I get that you're a vegan, and that this is a vegan bakery, but there's no need to be mean.

there's this ex-coworker of mine who has a blog in which every single entry is in the exact same style as what i posted above, actually. like casting himself as the hero in his own life in mini-scripts like that. i think people who do this exact thing are the worst people around, basically.

there was a post on gawker today about some d-bag getting yelled at by hillary duff that was exactly that kind of story that made me irrationally mad, at, like, the internet

I really love target but food avenue suck there is a girl her name is ashlee or some like that she had a really but costumer service i went today and i say can i have a large ice cream and she is like you want 1 or 2 scoops i say large she keep telling me 1 or 2 and i say the sing say large or small i dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large. Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say let me have a large ice cream and a soda i never say 2 icecream and she is like no you order 2 she say that few time. but anyway this is not the frist time that she give us actitude but i love target anyway.

^^my favorite part of Finnegans Wake

good 2 see that joe is reviewing stuff on yelp

costumer service! Do want your clown mask to have a nose that makes a honking noise when you squeeze it or not?

lol i just read that gawker story, i'm on hillary duff's side tbh

They actually SNEERED at me when I deigned to ask if they had milk to go with the coffee. Seriously, I get that you're a vegan, and that this is a vegan bakery, but there's no need to be mean.

err I don't think "deigned" is the right word here...although if the OP really felt like they were deigning to ask them then I can see how a sneer in response would be appropriate.

Still more Yelp suspicions. This time in Santa Monica

An intriguing phone call came one day to Roll House Sushi last spring, sparking some interest in its owner about advertising opportunities on a business review Web site that was quickly growing in popularity.

"You have a lot of hits on your page and the reviews are great," restaurant owner Charlie Paratunya recalled hearing from a Yelp sales associate. "People love you."

The salesperson reportedly proceeded to ask if there was any interest in advertising opportunities, to which Paratunya responded that he would have to wait because his budget did not permit it, asking that Yelp check back later.

When the associate phoned again months later, Paratunya, after checking with his business partners, declined the offer, saying it wasn't the right time.

By then Paratunya had checked the Roll House Sushi page on Yelp several times, pleased with the number of reviews — about 20 — that had given him five out of a possible five stars. But after the second conversation with the Yelp sales associate, Paratunya said he began noticing that the positive reviews were getting deleted and the negative ones were getting pushed to the top.

people who work at yelp are scumbags

http://static.px.yelp.com/photo/cMZKsku52xN9yYNNd4ueMQ/l

Oh SNAP!
No wonder Snoop D O Double Gizzle loves this place!

It was definitely an experience. I mean, where else would the "host" be a big black man with a jacket and hat that both have the word SECURITY written across it? Only at Roscoe's!

I was impressed with the service, the atmosphere, and the food. It wasn't as "ghetto" as many people claim it to be.

I ordered #1 - SCOE's 1/4 chicken prepared southern style, 2 waffles $10.20. Whoa, talk about a heart attack on a plate! Everything was delicious! The chicken was moist and the skin was extra crispy *drool*. The waffles + syrup + butter = delicious! I had such a hard time deciding what to eat more of ... chicken? waffles? chicken? waffles? It didn't really matter because I couldn't have finished all of that food even if I really tried. The portions are HUGE!

I'm a fan! Although, I can't promise to be a regular customer because my badonkadonk would be out of control!

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http://sf.eater.com/archives/2009/04/10/yelp_to_allow_business_comments_will_it_matter.php

Late yesterday, the AP broke the story that Yelp is going to allow businesses to respond to user reviews. The move is obviously a response to the wealth of negative Yelp press lately, and while it's probably a step in the right direction, there are some questions to be considered.

Will it improve the site? We'll reserve judgment until the actual feature is released, but we're doubtful. If there is any large-scale impact at all, allowing business owners—that is, the ones that don't ignore Yelp—to respond at will is likely to add to the already-overbearing white noise of the site. The reviews are already useless—Gary Danko has 1360, for example—and the possibility of adding a he-said, she-said feature isn't going to make things more helpful. And let's face it, some restaurateurs can be just as petty/explosive as Yelpers.

Will it improve Yelp's troubled reputation? On the surface, we're betting yes, even if it is, as we suspect, a token move to appease the increasingly-loud critics. It is a simple fix to a common complaint—that businesses don't have a voice. Reputation, reputation, reputation!

Ok, so what's in it for Yelp? Aside from the aforementioned damage control, the move—and it's a smart one—will prompt more business owners to go online, which is good for Yelp and Yelp's wallets. Note that the AP story points out that to respond, businesses must register for a free business owner's account. We're betting that once already online, a portion of them will be inclined to buy sponsorships. New feature = more business owners online = $.

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I'm in the zone... Third Street Promenade's the street tonight.
The epicenter for shoppin' and eatin' right.
From the Buck Wolfgang Puck to Monsieur Marcel - oui, dawg!
To Houston's, Broadway Deli and Mickey Dee's.
Whatever you cravin' -- it's here for thee.
You hungry for steak 'n eggs, sushi, or mac 'n cheese.
3rd Street Promenade is the place to be.
From the Farmer's Market for collie greens, bushel of beets to organic greens.
Third street promenade the place for me.
It makes me alamand left and dosey-doe, and promenade over to my favorite store.

Third street promenade is the place to be.
For a movie, for a BBLD*, or a shopping spree.
Where else besides neighborhood mall can you find...
the Mac store, Urban Outfitters, Abercrombie and Bebe.
Anthropologie, Guess, and Old Navy.
Gap store, Barnes 'n Noble, and Old Macy's.
Pimp-smack patty whack give a dog a bone.
This tourist trap is nothing like home. Oh-No!
Or is it? It's got the same mall stores as any city, only Bling-Bling bigger for the $$$ Cha'-Ching $$$.

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All the shopaholics with fake tans... Put your hands up!
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Those krumpers 'n poppers that dance out of sight.
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Word! PEACE-OUT!!!

*BBLD = Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch and Dinner.

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jesus

this tiny family place I eat lunch at has been getting way more business these past few months because of yelp which is cool

i have to say all the yelp reviews of everything in my neighborhood are spot on.

do you live in a neighborhood full of scumbags?