How do you tell if a restaurant’s Google reviews are fake?

Doubt a batch of reviews on the same day, with no detail of dish or room, or accounts that only ever review venues in different cities. A hard review that names the dish and the time of service is usually from someone who was there. Open the new reviews and note whether they name something you only see inside. Check your book: if nobody booked at that hour, do not answer as if it were a real service. Every bad review is reported and good ones are bought to balance them. Google notices, and the listing ends worse than with one true criticism.

The studio marks on the Maps read which reviews match a service and which do not, and drafts text only for the ones that do. Reviews are not manufactured, and awkward ones are not promised away.

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