Your Daily Life Tip by Womble Esq

[Womble]

Never go to a restaurant with fake online reviews, it will be shit. Kinda obvious right? If a place is going to pay people to write fake reviews then it's obviously going to be shitty because if it was good the 5 star reviews would appear organically.

"But Womble, how do I spot them?" I hear you say. There's a few blatant things to look for. The first is a bundle of 5 star reviews all posted within a day or 2 from users with less than 5 total reviews to date and who often have foreign names. The biggest giveaway however is that nearly all of the reviews state how wonderful the service was from X Person, who is normally the owner who has paid for the reviews. Ordinary people reviewing places online don't put the names of the person who served them, they can but it's pretty rare. You'll also often find a bunch of fake reviews straight after a series of bad reviews from actual customers.

Be smart. Don't let these scheming bastards ruin your evening.