News

• #Data

From sandwich makers to sporting-goods sellers, business sectors throughout the economy are slumping, according to Yelp data. Most U.S. businesses are small businesses. How are they doing? Until now, it’s been hard to say. Today’s data resources for measuring economic health generally either focus on giant corporations or move at a glacial pace. Yelp has… Read more

Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. 2019

• #News, #Top 100 Places to Eat

Millions of people use Yelp across the country to search and share experiences at all kinds of restaurants — from food trucks to Michelin-starred restaurants, and more. Not to mention plumbers, barber shops, phone repair technicians… but we’re here to talk about food. With the help of our Yelp community, who contributed more than 25… Read more

• #Yelp Foundation

I am excited to announce the 15 nonprofits that are this year’s recipients of Yelp Foundation “Gives Local” grants totalling $675,000. This year, we targeted nonprofits that were local to San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., New York, and Phoenix. The Yelp Foundation was created in 2011 to support charitable organizations and activities addressing the needs… Read more

• #News, #Consumer Protection Initiative

As part of Yelp’s ongoing Consumer Protection Initiative, we’re announcing 232 Consumer Alerts that will serve as notices to our users of extreme attempts to manipulate business ratings and reviews on our platform. These alerts will generally be removed from the affected Yelp business page after 90 days if the offending behavior stops. Since 2004, Yelp’s… Read more

• #News

Today we’re excited to announce that Yelp is joining forces with Movement Advancement Project and more than 175 partner organizations on the Open to All campaign to build awareness and understanding of the importance of nondiscrimination laws and defend the bedrock principle that when businesses open their doors to the public, they should be Open… Read more

• #News, #Consumer Protection Initiative

For decades, cities have regularly inspected restaurants to ensure food safety, providing this information publicly to citizens. Unfortunately, this information is often buried on clunky “dot gov” websites beyond the easy reach of consumers. Or equally inconvenient, it’s accessible in the offline world, displayed somewhere in the physical business, and not always obvious to the… Read more

• #News

The Supreme Court of California today ruled in Yelp’s favor in Hassell v. Bird, a case that had threatened the rights of online platforms that allow people to freely share their thoughts and the billions of people that do so. In 2014, attorney Dawn Hassell sued her former client, Ava Bird, for allegedly defaming her… Read more

Consumer Alerts: On Your Side

• #News, #Consumer Protection Initiative

Yelp is dedicated to consumer trust, whether displaying restaurant health scores or incorporating maternity care measures into Yelp business pages for hospitals that deliver babies. That’s why we are releasing a new round of 177 Consumer Alerts to highlight situations where someone may be going to extreme lengths to mislead consumers (e.g., offering people cash… Read more

Yelp Nearly Doubles The Number of Businesses Offering Online Food Ordering

• #News, #Product, #News

Toby Waite, Director of Engineering, Restaurants, also contributed to this post. Following last year’s announcement of our partnership with Grubhub, we’re excited to share that, starting today, users will be able to access Grubhub’s food ordering businesses directly through Yelp. The partnership will bring thousands of additional restaurants to Yelp, providing users more food ordering… Read more