The Reviewing Restaurants page provides some guidelines and suggestions for creating restaurant listings and adding review information to the page.

Helpful Tips for Creating an Informative Restaurant Page

For the info section:

• Name, location, phone number, website, etc. Use Template as a guide? (be accurate.)
• When the restaurant was first opened? Know who the Owners are?
• Include top level categories from Restaurants page - including style and cuisine
• Nationality or Type of food. (Italian, steak house, family, etc.)?
• Type of location or neighborhood (on the waterfront, bustling street corner, strip mall.)
• Nearby Attractions? (parks, offices, coffee shops, walking areas, clubs, ect.)
• Good feng zhu or ease of access for handicap. (Look at foyer, waiting area, dining room/seating. Size and & number of rooms, Table spacing)
• Atmosphere: Decorations, Music, Noise level, Entertainment. (Paintings, plants, live bands, live alligators.)
• Menu: Appetizer, Drink, Entrée?. (Clearly composed, Comparable in size, price, etc. to other local establishments?)

Then create a comments section and add your personal feelings

• Plenty of time to interact with your dining companions? (Appropriately busy, crowded or eerily slow. Time to talk, enjoy yourselves?)
• Service: Attentive too much/little?, Talkative too much/little?
• Timing? Pause good between courses? Coffee/bill/ect on time?
• The Food? (too Simple or over-elaborate for your tastes?)
• How did you feel about the variety of the menu, was it too simple for your taste, or maybe complex for the genre of establishment?
• Close with your overall thoughts?

With the above questions answered you can now write a killer restaurant page that will enormously helpful.

Additional Suggestions

• TAKE YOUR CAMERA: A picture is often worth a thousand words. Try to get an exterior shot to make finding a tad easier (plus deal with the first impression), a shot around the room, any special touches, and a shot of some dish if it shows presentation, etc. Some have also shot pictures of the menu, so that if it is not available on the web. Be cautious about direct shots of strangers, they might not like to find themselves on the web. Employees are before the public, so probably not an issue.
• Grab a take-out menu, business card or other info from the counter - it may fill in some blanks and will give you a place to take notes.
• Mention AkronWiki to the owner, manager, waitress, etc. Let them know what you are up to. You may get extra good service, but then at least we will then know their "best shot". If you are a die-hard addict, printout some leave-behinds with AkronWiki info on it.
• NPOV -(Neutral Point of View) is usually recommended - but that does not mean you cannot state something emphatically that is factual and neutral (if it walks like a duck ...). I usually state the obvious in the listing. Afterwards, I put in a comment about my specific experience and opinion.
• Do some web research to find reviews, etc (maybe best after the fact so you go in with an open mind).

Akron Restaurant Review Resources

• Yelp.com

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Footnotes

1. Entirely appropriate and useful and just waiting for some "Super-Useful" contributor to "Awesome" up. - edited original material from RocWiki author - Users/RickUrwin