But isn’t that a “problem” that any restaurant owner faces ? Running a restaurant was always way more than “just” cooking - you had to take care of BOH/FOH, supply etc and also, perhaps most important beside the cooking itself, about marketing. And in the last 10-15 years marketing is actually getting easier with the availability of social media. There are two main roads (a bit oversimplified) you either have good financial backings through investors which allows you through significant marketing budget (and connections) to tap into the Eaters, Yelps of the world or you have to use the longer, but cheaper, approach through social media. (And let’s be real Yelp, Eater etc are commercial organizations who’s only purpose is to generate revenues and not spreading the word of the best restaurants - so I find your complains about no coverage through these companies a bit naive). In the end it is the restaurant owners responsibility to come up with a full business how to keep the restaurant viable (and not just how to produce good food) and if they fail their business plan including marketing selection of location etc was simply not efficient enough. And if restaurant owner are not proactive and just wait that others (like here on discussion boards etc) do their marketing job without their significant input/work they are very likely to fail
