Every venue on this site starts as a real, independently sourced listing. We don’t accept payment to rank a business higher, and we don’t generate fake reviews to pad out a thin profile. If we don’t have a fact about a place, we leave it out rather than guess. This page explains, plainly, where the pieces of a listing come from.
Where the data comes from
Star ratings come from Yelp, linked so you can read the full reviews yourself. Address, hours, price, and category come from each venue’s original listing. Where we have both, community rating counts are tracked separately from Yelp’s own review count and shown as two distinct numbers rather than merged into one, since they’re measuring different things.
Reviews, and what “anonymized” means
Reviews shown on venue pages are real, written by real visitors. We anonymize the reviewer’s identity before publishing and lightly edit the wording for clarity, but we don’t add opinions, invent details, or change what someone actually said. If you want a sense of how to weigh a review’s actual content once you’re reading it, past the anonymized byline, see our guide to reading venue reviews.
What “AI-assisted” means here
Some of the descriptive copy on venue pages is written with AI assistance, but it’s built on top of the real facts above, not instead of them. When Yelp and the original listing disagree on something like price or hours, the AI description defaults to Yelp’s version, since it tends to be more current, though the price and hours shown elsewhere on a listing still reflect the original source when we have one. Our process explicitly checks generated text against the source facts and flags anything that can’t be traced back to a real detail. If a description mentions a specific fact about a venue, that fact should be verifiable from the listing itself.
We’d rather a venue page say less than say something untrue.
Why some pages look thin
Not every venue has the same amount of information available. A small business with only a handful of reviews will have a shorter page than one with hundreds, and that’s intentional. A short, honest page beats a padded one that’s dressed up to look thorough. We don’t fill gaps with invented detail just to make a listing seem bigger than the facts support.
Keeping listings current
Venues change: they close, move, change hours, or get bought out. If you notice something is wrong on a listing, or you own or manage a venue and want to update it, use the “Claim or update this listing” link on any venue page, or go straight to the claim form. It’s free, and it’s the fastest way to get accurate information in front of visitors. You can read more about the site’s overall approach on our about page.