Generic business

@NianticBC @NianticBC


What is ment by a generic business? There is a couple of very unique businesses local to me and they have been there for absolutely years. How do such hidden gems of the community get past wayfarer interpretations of what is unique and what is truly generic?

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  • If you can show that it is not solely your opinion that the business is unique, you have a better chance of passing through wayfarer. I would suggest looking for newspaper or magazine article/reviews that showcase this and citing them in your supporting statement. Even then it is still difficult. I don't know if we'll ever get a clear cut answer to this question. It's been asked a few times before.

  • If wayfarer was a game, "Generic business" would be one of the hardest bosses. Make sure to level up first :)

  • AgentB0ssAgentB0ss ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dazzz12345 Let me put it in perspective. I had an AMAZING award winning, restaurant eaten by the president, won awards 6+ years in a row, featured in national magazines. The place is a Restaurant, Butcher Shop, and Beer/Wine Market. Unique name and everything and it was denied 2 times before finally being approved.

    Its entirely possible to get a local hot spot approved, but do your homework first.

  • Yeah. An art gallery owned co-operatively by over a dozen local artists which was responsible for the yearly arts festival for a small town of about 6,000 residents took a second time. It also gives classes in the art to adults. So, it really has to stand out.

  • grendelwulfgrendelwulf ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every Chick Fil A in Florida would be considered a hotspot if you judged it by how popular it is with the local community.

  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's coming from someone who claimed that a upscale Japanese hibatchi resturant in southern West Virginia was a "generic builsness" beause there were dozens of them in downtown Tokyo.

  • I think the poster meant that popularity with the community in and of itself doesn't make something portal worthy, not that Chick-Fil-As should be portals because they are popular. At least that's how I read it.

  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭

    But he did call the WV hibachi restaurant "generic buisness" because they were common in Japan. So I wouldn't take someone who has voiced such an extremist possession as credible.

  • Unique vs generic will always be a judgement call, I think. We just get frustrated when we think people should have used a little more commonsense. All I give people for advice is to do research and write out descriptions ahead of time to proofread and really think about how it presents. Businesses are not easy approvals.

  • This is completely a tangent, but hibachi restaurants as we know them are mostly American, thanks to the popularity of Benihana and similar American chains. You won't find them in Tokyo or probably anywhere else in Japan for that matter.

    Otherwise I'm just sitting here nodding along to what's being said. "Generic business" is way too vague and subjective a category to be of any use, and it's insane how difficult it is to convince a bunch of cynical reviewers of submission's (legitimate) value.

  • grendelwulfgrendelwulf ✭✭✭✭✭

    I didn't call them generic because they are common in Japan. I called them generic because they are common all across the United States. Just type "hibachi" or "teppanyaki" into Google maps.

  • you are labeling a business generic for the means by which they cook their food?

    guys stop submitting any restaurant that uses a grill (just google "grill" and you will see just how generic these businesses are. they are everywhere!!)

  • grendelwulfgrendelwulf ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019

    No. What I meant is that a poster got all wordy describing how special his local teppanyaki was when just going by the description he could have been describing the one 10 minutes from me, here in Florida, right down to the indoor Koi Pond (which is a portal here). I told him just to submit the fountain and koi pond and forget submitting the Yelp review for rest of the restaurant.

    Path of least resistance.

  • Grendelwulf is actually correct. Submit that which is most likely to go through. It is easier to convince someone to accept a fountain even an indoor one than the restaurant. The end result is still having an approved poi at your hotspot.

  • edited November 2019

    by definition, an opinion cannot be "correct". the advice is not even a solid work-around because people will still vote your koi pond or fountain as a genric business for existing at the business.

    For example, submitting what I considered to be a unique architectural feature gets labeled "generic business". I have more examples of this as well


  • KliffingtonKliffington ✭✭✭✭✭

    Eh, no they're right. The fountain/pond meet explicit criteria. The window is still a subjective submission even though it is fairly unique. I always try to find murals/art/fountains at places vs trying to get a restaurant through. Sometimes it takes more than one try

  • While what you all are saying is true there is also one problem you do not take into account.

    If I review in English and want to 1* submission I have an option to mark it as "generic business" - that's fine. However if I were to switch to my local language, the same option is actually just "business place" in my local language - the word "generic" is omitted and not translated. To make matter worse the description is so unclear and confusing, that it can be easily understood as "reject business as it may not have cultural/historical value".

    As a result of this every business is rejected in my country no matter whether it has or has no cultural/social/historical value (there were even grotesque discussion on local OPR channel about whether museums should be accepted as they are selling tickets there so it's a buisness and those are not accepted...).

    I’m writing all this because it might be a case that some of your submissions are reviewed by people from other countries. And in those countries similar unclear translations can lead to this kind of misunderstandings. After all not all reviewers read forums or are present on OPR channels.

  • Holy cow... The President ate a restaurant? Godzilla!

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