New Restaurants Section: Please reply here if you would like to be able to edit Restaurant/Bar Pages
For this first release, we have limited access to editing of restaurant/bar pages (cuisine, neighborhood, features, etc) - if you are interested in editing these pages, please reply to this post and we will provide that access. Thanks.
If you're a restaurant or food business looking to update your own information (hours, website, etc), please just leave a note here with the information you'd like updated, or email it to info@chow.com, and we'll update it for you.
CHOW HQ
Sep 29, 2009 03:59PM
I'd like to access to editing. I have a number of changes I've been saving up since Places was disabled for editing.
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Yes, please, count me in.
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Wow you fixed a lot of other things too! Looks great so far. May I please also have access? Thanks!
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Got the three to this point. As a side note, if you were involved in the beta for the new Restaurants section, you should already have edit access.
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"Save" button is not working for me. I click on it and nothing happens.
Safari/OSX/ latest everything. This page:
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/55099...
The rest of the editing features appear to be working.
Also: "Cancel" button does function.
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OK, now that I logged out and back in, I can edit, but only theoretically...'cause, like you, I can't save either!
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I can't. While I can get into the edit screen, when I hit save the record just hangs. As of this post I'm unable to save any Restaurant edits
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6558...
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Okay, but that's not related to the permissions issue that we're dealing with here. If you didn't have permission to edit, you wouldn't even see the edit button.
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We'll investigate & fix the problem. Thanks for your patience.
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The editing problem has been fixed. Please let us know if you continue to experience problems.
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Working for me now. Thanks!
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Although I don't edit restaurant info often, it's nice to be able to do so for new places or where the information is incomplete. Please add me to the list.
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How much does it pay? I just did 14 informally this morning: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6553...
Took me a while.
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Yes, please. And thanks.
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I have edit privileges, thanks. Can not edit website info, though.
Edit: http://www.lucias.com/main/main.htm
Should be http://www.lucias.com/ And that's just the first in the list for Minneapolis.
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Yeah, I have a list of a few necessary corrections that I noticed while the records were locked.
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I have a bunch of additions to make. Add me, please. :-)
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Hi there. Can you help me out?
I chose one of my favorite restaurants in CT to start my contribution. Here 'tis:
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/44709/sharpe-hill-vineyard
What's weird is *I did* review this restaurant specifically--earlier this month, even-- yet it doesn't come up in the "related discussions" section below it. Here is a link to my review.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/653123
Conceptually, I like the idea, but in execution, it doesn't seem to be working...or not yet, anyway.
EDIT: While browsing some of my hometown favorites, I was delighted to see a little hole in the wall favorite of mine had a picture posted. I didn't recognize the poster's name. When I clicked on his profile, there were no posts. Did you recruit people to post pictures for various restaurants? How's this working?
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/45442...
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And here I am again. I don't appear to have access to edit/modify a place. The only thing I can do is upload a picture...and I'm on my laptop without access to all my picture files, so I can't even do that. Can you please e-mail me and let me know how I can do this? I can only guess if the fields (hours, alcohol, etc.) were available for me to edit, they'd be clickable and they're not.
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There's an 'edit' link in the top right corner of the page.
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Can you please tell me where in the upper right hand corner? Am I losing it? :) Edit is under or above or next to what?
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They look like this. If you're not seeing them, can you first try logging out and back in, and if that doesn't help, post a similar screenshot of your own?
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That's it!!! I hadn't logged out since you gave me access. Now I'm good to go. Thank you! :)
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Hey there, ChowHQ...I don't know if you missed the EDIT part of my post since I went back in and added it later. I am curious...how would someone join up just to post pics and not to post reviews or anything? Did you recruit folks to add to the database?
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We didn't recruit people to do this, but there's nothing in particular stopping people from signing up and posting pics and nothing else, if that happens to be what they're interested in contributing.
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Maybe kattyeyes is talking about the 750,000 new restaurants & bars added to the database
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Ah, in that case, the new entries came from a data supplier, they weren't added by people.
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I'm not sure...did the 750,000 new restaurants and bars come with pre-loaded pics from people I've never seen before on Chowhound? If so, that does answer my question. :)
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That user seems to have signed up around June 16th. What's odd about someone signing up and adding a photo? Maybe he works there? There are well over 1,000,000 user accounts here and not all of them are actively posting things. Lots of people just read.
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People who work there all have Vietnamese last names. :) No worries--it's nice that people are participating. I was just expecting a familiar name from the local board, so when it was a stranger, I wondered if the Chow team had recruited people to add photos. No biggie. I was just curious.
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Please include me.
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Count me in for editing access, please.
Can I assume this will also allow me to add a new listing?
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It's been over a week since I asked for permission, and I still don't get how I'm supposed to edit (unless in fact I haven't yet been put in for editing access?).
I'm crossposting here ...
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6558...
... because I also can't get the linked page to allow me to set up new listings.
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Have you logged out and logged back in since you requested editing access?
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Thanks, that worked -- for editing. Now I just need to figure out how to add a new entry.
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Search for a place that doesn't exist, like sxwfeplk. That will bring up an add-a-place link.
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Yes, I would like to be able to edit the listings.
I noticed that the Google Map for Goodfella's Cafe in New Haven, CT is way off base, even though the street address is accurate. Any idea why?
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Google maps are sometimes a little flaky. But you can update the restaurant page with the precise latitude and longitude (which you can find by finding the actual location on google maps) and that should fix it.
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How's it look now? I moved it.
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Nope, it's showing up on Fountain St (Rt 243) in Westville, right near the underpass to the Parkway (Rt 15).
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This must be an old database. It is not directly linked to or interactive with Google Maps. I moved the POI on Google Maps to the correct building. It was at the corner place (next door), which is jinxed, it seems.
Have you been to or have anything to report about Goodfellas Cafe?RE, my "quick review" http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6579...
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When I clicked on Goodfellas Cafe to bring me to the database, and then edited the entry and saved it, the correct Google Map appeared. But the Google Map on your Goodfella's thread is still wrong, even after refreshing the page. Must be a glitch in the html.
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Now, on my screen, next to the thread http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/657923
the POI doesn't even show. It's the right area on the map, but no marker!
EDIT: Then I go to the restaurant review: http://www.chow.com/restaurants/96737... and the POI marker is there. Go back to the previous page and miraculously, it has appeared.
I repeated this phenomenon twice.
On an off note: Where are the SLOW reviews? The biggie reviews or the reviews by pros? We have "Quick Reviews", implying that Slow or long reviews will be forthcoming?
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I don't know if this is the best place to post about problems editing Restaurant/Bar pages, but here goes:
I tried to add hours of operation for Feng Asian Bistro in Hartford, CT while logged in using IE8 in compatibility mode. For every character that I type in the text box, the box gets narrower. After typing a dozen chars, the box is reduced to a thin vertical line (but the text is there). If I pass the mouse cursor over the box before it's reached that stage, it may revert to its full size, but this happens only once. I would then have to save the changes and then go back to edit mode to add more info to that text box.
The hours text box works fine in Firefox 3.5.
However, after spending a good deal of time copying their 3-part hours of operation from their website (and it's not obvious where to find it), I only ended up with "Mon-Thurs", the 2nd line of many I had typed in, in this format:
Dinner:
Sun-Thurs 5-10PM
Fri-Sat 5-11PM
[etc.]
When I retyped all that info onto a single line with no line breaks (the way the old system worked), it kept everything I typed, but it's not very readable.
Can someone look into this?
Also, I copied a couple of links to reviews from their website, and they display as entered, but are not very readable either. Can one enter HTML <a>-type links in this field, so that one can see "Connecticut Magazine Review" instead of "h.t.t.p://www.connecticutmag.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18127459&BRD=2329&PAG=461&dept_id=578311&rfi=6" ?
Oh, one more thing:
Please define what price ranges the $, $$, ..., $$$$$ selections mean.
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Is that still happening, the mysterious shrinking field? I was noticing it too on Firefox, but not recently.
Agree about the $$$. Without a key it means nothing.
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Yes, it's still happening and very annoying to deal with. I've never seen this behavior before on a webpage, after literally years of experience on the web. Must be one heckva coding error.
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You could always go by the Yelp pricing guideline? :) BTW, there is no $$$$$.
$=Cheap, under$10
$$=Moderate, $11-30
$$$=Spendy, $31-60
$$$$=Splurge, Above $60
They suggest this is the price, per person, after tax and tip.
They also say this range is subject to change.
My thoughts are that we rarely spend over $60 per, so this is about right for our somewhat pricey New Haven area. It is perhaps not the norm in NYC (too low) or Austin (too high?).
Fodor's use this simplified guide:
¢ - Cheap
$ - Budget
$$ - Mid-range
$$$ - Upscale
$$$$ - Expensive
Chow may be inferring pricing like this without commenting.
Others may not have anything about pricing. Could not find it on Zagat.
I would like to know what they mean by "menu", when they have primary cuisine, cuisine tags and tags. Confusing. Obviously not a yes-no question.
There's just no "Help" or guide here!
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>I would like to know what they mean by "menu", when they have primary cuisine, cuisine tags and tags.
In that field you can enter a URL, if there's an online menu.
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Yes, menu is the actual menu. Some restaurants don't have websites so it can be found on other sites such as menupages, sporq, foodiebytes, grubhub, a thousand minor places.
I started adding $ prior to the change. I looked at all the places that use pricing ... yelp, zagat (they have it), opentable, menupages, local newspapers.
It is best to use a four level tier since that is the most common. Menupages uses a five level tier, IIRC, and it is just confusing. One place used three tier. While that eliminates the biggist ambiguity ... those places that straddle $$ and $$$ ... it lumps too many places in together. Some are clearly $$ while others are $$$ and you don't want priicey if you are looking for midrange..
The thing I did find out ... as far as four-tier pricing ... was that no matter how it was calculated ... entire meal ... entree ... it doesn't matter. The cheap restaurants were always $ and the $$$$ restaurants were always expensive ... no matter what criteria you used.
Fodor's actually has the right idea using descriptions rather than price ranges based on some critera.
It eliminates regionalism. What might fall in the mid-range category in NYC could be upscale pricing in the suburbs in another area of the country ... not to mention other countries outside the US. IIRC, outside of the US is where Zagat was inaccurate.
It also solves the problem of outdated pricing due to inflation or deflations.
Don't agree with their distinction between cheap and budget though. It throws a clear category into fuzzy territory. I do like the word budget for $. I was using inexpensive. Cheap isn't fair to many low cost restaurants as it implies lesser quality.
I don't like upscale though for $$$. I think pricey is better. Upscale implies a certain type of restaurant. There are many type of places such as sushi joints or old school continental restaurants that are pricey but not really upscale.
Yes, it would be nice to have a rollover legend that defined those levels such as
$=Budget
$$=Midrange
$$$=Pricey
$$$$=Expensive
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I like your ideas.
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My guideline has been more entree-based (average cost):
$=under $10
$$=$10 - $20
$$$=$20 - $35
$$$$=over $35
simply because appetizers, drinks, etc., are optional, main courses aren't.
When you add in those other items, you get your pricing levels shown above.
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I experienced the mysterious shrinking field last weekend (IE7 on my laptop, IE6 where I'm typing now) and didn't report it except while talking to Scargod, so thanks for raising it here. That got old very fast for me. Only way I could work around it was to type a little bit, save, go back, repeat...I did one listing and called it quits. I would really like to fill in the blanks for some of my local favorites who don't have websites...especially places where I tend to direct others. Chowhound Team, any workaround on this issue?
rbailin, while we're site talkin', I've appreciated many of your recommendations on our local board. Would love if you filled in your top 5 favorites on your profile...just in case you're onto something else I'm missing. ;) Thanks for the very tasty advice.
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I haven't been able to reproduce the shrinking field in IE6. Is it still an issue?
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please add me in
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i'd like to access editing to update the information for my business La Petite France Cafe. Thank you, heidip
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How 'bout duplicates? There's a listing for Iguanas Ranas, then another for Iguanas Ranas Taqueria. The latter is the name of the establishment. Of course, I already updated hours and a photo for the other listing...would be nice to have only one. How to do this? :)
Here's the one I should have updated:
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/45675/iguanas-ranas-taqueria
And here's the one I did update, that ought to be deleted as a duplicate:
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/48304...
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More duplicates here. Help!
http://search.chow.com/search?query=n...
I'm fairly certain 510 W Main St, Meriden, CT is their old addy. They moved down the street to 311...and there are two listings for that. I'll hold off on updating till there is only one record (hope that helps).
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I ran into the same problem with listings for Raffaelo's & Luce (name change a few years ago) in Hamden and Pika Tapa & Ibiza in New Haven. I just marked the older/obsolete ones "closed" and put in a short note explaining the situation.
Please note that changes to individual listings don't appear instantly in the list of restaurant search results.
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We're discussing the problem of duplicate records in this thread on Technical Help. Please weigh in.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/656558
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Can you provide links for these? I'm not finding Luce in Hamden or Ibiza in New Haven, and the only Pika Tapa record I can find is the one that's marked closed. Please don't do that, btw, as even if we then go through and merge the duplicate records, the end result will end up showing as if it was closed.
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What DO we do? How about a little direction? A sticky or a FAQ? As I've noted, I could do nothing yesterday. Before that it accepted "duplicate" as a new name for a duplicate restaurant. Not now.
I'm really frustrated with this process as I would like to help clean up the database (and rid you of all the chain restaurants!)! Just kidding(?)
Ibiza in New Haven shows up, Luce in Hamden doesn't.
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Sorry, there are multiple threads on the same issue - as I explained in the other one, for now, just post them in that thread: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/656558 and I'll fix them. We hope to have a) the 'mark as duplicate' function returned to users who have edit authority soon, so you can fix them yourself if you come across them and b) Engineering do an assessment on how widespread the problem is and whether we can fix it on the backend.
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Luce shows up here:
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/11135...
What I was doing in this case was leaving the search field at the top of the restaurants/bar page blank, and entering "hamden, ct" in the near field. This gives you a list of all 117 establishments located in Hamden. Luce was #46 on the list. The restaurants appear to be sorted by their database record number.
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It's not a very flexible, intuitive database. New Haven is big for Italian restaurants. If I am new to NH and I want to branch out and find an Italian restaurant, outside of downtown, I type in "New haven, CT" (where it says "near"), I still only get restaurants in New Haven. If I enter the major zip, 06511, for downtown New Haven I get surrounding areas. 23 versus 35. You can get there, but it requires too much persistence and experimenting.
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Yes, I'd like to edit. How about adding? Right now the DC/Baltimore board only includes DC, not Maryland or Virginia.
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I own the Rainbo Cafe that is listed on this site. However I am unable to update the listing.
Thanks
Jim at Rainbocafe
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Please add me to the edit list. I have some changes and additions to the San Francisco listings.
Thank you...
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I would like to update some information.Thanks
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I would like to be able to update. One of my favorite new places in San Jose, Mezcal, has the wrong zip code which is throwing the map way off.
I very much like having the maps integrated in, so it's more important than ever to get this geographic information correct. Thanks!
Michael
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I just noted that there is a duplicate record supplied by the data provider for Mezcal. I submitted it to Jacquilynne for merging.
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Please grant me access to add/update restaurant listings. Thank you.
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Me too please!
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You already have access, grayelf -- try logging out and back in if you're not seeing it.
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Thanks, I was able just now to mark Conor Butler as Closed! I think the problem had to do with another issue I haven't reported yet because I can't figure out why it is happening -- I keep getting "logged out" in the middle of sessions when I am still reading and moving between posts...
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Hrmm, that does happen occasionally, but if it's happening really super often it sounds like an issue with your login cookies.
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I deleted all my cookies and it's still happening... doh.
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And now my screen name and password don't fill in automatically (sigh) PLUS I'm getting the weirdness that someone else reported where it sometimes shows posts I've already read and sometimes it displays threads correctly. Not a big deal if there are 10 replies but kinda aggravating if there are dozens...
On the plus side, I'm noticing that when I do more than one edit on a post, it no longer reverts to the previous version, which is great!
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I'd like to add a couple of new restaurants to the listings...Please grant me access.
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Granted -- log out and back in if you're not seeing it.
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Yes, please. Errors have been popping up on the Southwest board, and it would be nice to be able to fix them, especially for those times when we're addressing queries from out of town 'hounds.
Thanks!
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Done -- log out and back in.
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I'd like to be able to capitalize restaurant names that are coming up lower case on the New Orleans Board so we don't look illiterate. Can I edit for that?
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please add me to the list to be able to edit incorrect restaurants
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I seem unable to update restaurants today. I was able to before today.
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I would just like to edit my own restaurant, Eddie's Pizza in Clinton Maryland. There is absolutely no information available there, making it somewhat difficult for the chowheads on this site to try and fall in love with my chow.
Thanks
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Hey, Eddie, I updated your restaurant record using info from your website, facebook, and the Gazette review taking out editorial words.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/367605
Didn't see any yelp info
I assume both the Gazette and Facebook are correct and you are closed Sat-Sun. If not, I'll look at your Facebook page tommorrow for update.
I have nothing to do with Chow other than being a poster, but I was updating some restaurant records in my neck of the woods and wrote up your info while I was at it.
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I've noticed a few errors and out-dated info on the Ontario board. Please provide me with access.
thanks
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Log out and in and you should be set.
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Major changes with my listing. Please send access. Merri
Name change, photos, etc.
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As noted above, we're not approving restaurant to update their own data at this time. You can leave the info here, or email it to info@chow.com, and we'll update it on your behalf.
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Yes, I would like to be edit restaurant/bar pages per your guidelines.
Thank you in advance.
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Log out and in and you should be set.
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I would also love to be granted access to edit/add restaurant listings.
Thank you!
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Log out and in and you should be able to edit/add.
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Please extend me EDITING privlages.
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OK, you should be good to go.
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Thanks a lot!
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Please include me for editing access. Thanks.
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All set- give it a try.
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Please add me to the list of users who can edit restaurant info. Thanks!
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You should be all set now.
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I'd like to be able to add new place links please. Some instructions on how to create a new one now would also be welcome. Thanks,
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Basically, search for something that doesn't exist, and there should be an 'Add a New Place' link beneath your non-existent search results. Click that and a box will open up (you may have to scroll up to find it if you're scrolled down the page) and allow you to add the place (it will take a minute or so).
Then, it'll bump you to the edit page where you can add any information you have on hours, website, etc.
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Please add me!
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jlunar - done. Just log out and back in and you should be able to edit/add now.
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Would you Folks mind Adding me? Thanks
- P.
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You should be good to go, give it a whirl.
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Thank Much!
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