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***** YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER *****

Posted on March 28th, 2012 · Music/Events/Other

***** YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER *****

Jeff Eats recently received the following comment from ABD…

” Hey Jeff, every month or so in the mail I get courtesy copies of magazines such as City & Shore, The Boca Raton Observer and Boca Delray Life. It seems that every time they run a favorable restaurant review, a few pages later there is an advertisement for the reviewed restaurant. What’s your take on that?”

15 Comments to “***** YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER *****”

  1. FR says...

    Just got the April 2012 copy of The Boca Raton Observer. Article about Tea Licious on page 112 and there is adv for Tea Licious on page 128. Boca Delray Life’s March 2012 got a review of NYY Steak on pages 46&47 and has an adv on page 47.

    Who in their right mind would trust these reviews?

    • ZT says...

      I DON’T!
      By the way I’ve eaten at NYY and the food and service are excellent.

      If I’m not mistaken, the Sun Sentinel recently gave NYY a rave review and at the same time there was a NYY ad in the Showtime magazine.

      Actually, when you think about it, the Seminoles do so much advertising for their casinos in the Sun Sentinel that the newspaper would be foolish to write anything bad about anything that was connected with the casinos.

      That’s why guys like Jeff Eats are more reliable than the paid reviewers.

  2. JeffEats says...

    FR:

    Just had a chance to read your comments.

    Like the title says, ***** You Guys Already Know The Answer *****…

    Thanks for reading…

  3. Anthony S says...

    Jeff,
    How do you think the Suprem Court will rule on Obamacare?

    • JeffEats says...

      Anthony S:

      Just had a chance to read your comments.

      Don’t know.

      Too busy to think about it. I’m still trying to figure out if the birth certificate is legit.

      Thanks for reading…

  4. Vic X says...

    These magazines reviews are as stupid as the guys who are trying to change Brooklyn water into Brooklyn water.
    I give absolutely no credibility to the reviews. They are just bought pieces.

  5. Cx says...

    Magazines like this publish bogus reviews. They get ads and do reviews. Never believe them .

  6. RHO says...

    I find it incredible that a magazine has a favorable review and in the same issue there is an adv for the same restaurant. These guys must be stupid if they think that us readers fall for these bought and paid for reviews.

  7. Sleepy says...

    Got my Boca Raton Observer, yep and saw the article and saw the ad.
    ABSURD!!

  8. DAN says...

    I’ve been reading this local magazines in my doctors’ offices for years. The restaurant reviews are so phony. They also have the BEST OF THIS and the BEST OF THAT they are also phony.

  9. Ronnie says...

    These magazines’ reviews are as legit as the guys who claim to have a water filtration system that makes local water into the same consistency as Brooklyn’s water.

  10. Penny R. says...

    Those magazines’ restaurant reviews are a waste of time. They are just PR pieces.

  11. LEE says...

    The magazines are good for the bathroom. Their glossy paper is also good to pick your teeth with.
    As for restaurant reviews LOL.

  12. robertw says...

    If one of those papers gives a bad review, the restaurant wont advertise. These days Yelp has more influence than the papers reviews becuase yelp gets more hits. Jeff does a great job in his reviews which are geared to the average person, not somebody who eats at 100.00 a plate dinners all the time.

  13. Johnny21 says...

    Every review that I have read in these type of magazines have been bought and paid for with an ad in the magazine. These reviews as far as being legit are 100% useles.

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