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Many people in the United States use "restaurant reviews" to decide where they want to eat. A "restaurant review" is a written "opinion" (what someone thinks) about the quality of a restaurant.

Many newspapers have restaurant reviews that are written by a single reviewer. This reviewer goes to a restaurant as a normal customer, eats there, and then writes a review describing the food, the "service" (how well the waiters treated the customer), "atmosphere" (the feeling of being in the restaurant), and the cost. These reviews are helpful in deciding where to eat, but they may not be very "accurate" (correct). The reviewer may have been at the restaurant on a bad day, or the reviewer's opinions about the restaurant may be very unusual.

For these reasons, there are now many restaurant guides that provide restaurant reviews based on the opinions of thousands of people instead of a single reviewer. In the United States, one of the most popular guides is the Zagat Review. The company creates restaurant "surveys" (sets of questions) about restaurants that are sent to thousands of people. Zagat uses these peoples' opinions about restaurants to develop its restaurant reviews. Most people think that these reviews are very accurate because they are based on the opinions of many people instead of only one reviewer.

The Zagat Review looks at four things in each restaurant: food, "décor" (decoration and atmosphere), service, and cost. Each of these categories receives between 0 and 30 points. This allows people to find the types of restaurants that they're looking for anywhere in the country.