Originally Posted by
Jailer
I dunno, I merely hit the button on AA/RN to launch restaurants near me on my android and then gleefully scrolled down counting until I hit a 10-mile radius. Maybe you ought to slide under the Orange Curtain sometime and we'll have lunch and I'll show you the new world order?
Be advised that 10 miles from my office encompasses Long Beach and even beyond.
This is strange. I was doing searches without logging in, because that doesn't seem to have ever mattered before. But while it showed only 23 new restaurants within 30 miles before logging in, it shows 106 new restaurants after I log in!
Among totally new ones here and there, in my central OC search area I see several that used to belong but dropped out (including one that shows "coming soon" rather than "new"), and several that are new locations of local chains (such as Z Pizza or Panini Cafe) which had other locations before.
And it's much more than just the OC. I see the same thing searching around my home in West LA: 2 Coming Soon, then one that was there before, then another Coming Soon and 2 New, then a bunch that were there before.
And on a whim I tried San Francisco, and see a similar onslaught of new / coming soon places there too.
But it's not everywhere (or at least not yet everywhere). For example, I search Tuscon, and I see not a single new or coming soon restaurant in whole area there.
So I wonder if they changed their whole approach to singing up places? Maybe they started to do it electronically rather in person, or with one traveling super-rep instead of complacent permanent ones?