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Don't bother looking at the one from 3 years ago... those prices have gone up.
- And the one really interesting sounding dish you wanted is no longer served.
  
  Wait what? They cancelled the Sour Patch pizza?
- By several dollars too

My favorites are always the random family vacation pictures accidentally uploaded to gmaps. It always tells a tiny slice of life story about people I will never meet.
- Have that feeling sometimes in places like a full market, an airport or visiting a city full of people walking around. I won't probably see these people again in my life, yet they will go on to their lives doing their things. This is the only moment we will be this close, never to see them again. I'm like, there's so many people in this whole world all with so many different wants and needs, and I ain't knowing 1/1000 of them.
  
  Or, interesting in the opposite direction, I was once on vacation in another country over summer break during elementary school years, visiting a tourist site of some sort, and saw one of my classmates there. Parents didn't coordinate plans or even share them, just a random coincidence that we happened to not only go to the same general area at the same time, not only the same specific tourist location in an area that had a bunch of options, but ended up on the same section of path at the same time.
  Makes me wonder how many other times I've randomly been even just an hour away from someone else I knew in an area neither of us were often in.

I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I'm pretty sure that's the peak of my online presence. It's all downhill from there.

Needed now more than ever to expose bullshit... At a local Thai restaurant, only menu listing on yelp was 3 years old, showing an $11 Pad Thai. Actual menu had all the prices sharpied out, and when you asked for current prices... $17 for a small portion, basic Pad Thai!!!
- Noodle / pizza prices skyrocketing is such bullshit. Those dishes are cheap as dirt to make and no way justify the crazy price hike.
  
  100%, especially considering I'm in a small town, rent and business costs are relatively low and they are not sourcing high quality ingredients or anything, just the same standard staple Sysco/USFoods crap that schools, prisons and hospitals also use.

Yeah, really helpful when all search results point to ordering sites with inflated prices

The food menu may be buried under several photos of the drink menu (or vice versa), but it'll probably be there.

I'm apparently in the top 10% of restaurant reviewers simply because I do this everywhere I go.

I have vowed to do this myself... I just never go to restaurants 😔 I am already a "local guide" on Google Maps though. I think mostly it was because I bitched about a Walmart because they had 2 pallets of frozen stuff out on the floor that was totally thawed and there wasn't an associate in sight. The images I used were viewed about 20,000 times in a day which has always made me wonder if corporate saw it and was passing it around as training material. The city the Walmart in question is in doesn't even have 20,000 residents.