I don’t think I care about “over time.” I assume this is mostly used by new(-ish) guests who don’t already have favorites, etc., but I really don’t care what the best CS restaurant in the Magic Kingdom was in 2015.
In line with that (see what I did there?)—I think some sort of decaying-average for “the number” would be better than “average across all time.” That’s because places can change (quickly!) in very material ways, and I care about what it is today. For example: is the waffle at Sleepy Hollow currently the Good One, or the Crappy One?
How can Casey’s be above average but carts rated higher, are below average? Are there separate ratings for QS and carts? If there are, there is no text on that app page to tell the user.
Wishing we could discern adventurous eaters vs chicken tenders only eaters. Skippers was great when they first opened until people complained about odd food. All those spices were heaven for us!
Wow, food cart ratings are very tight! Also, the different Food Stand types are on different rating curves from each other? But when I click through, they are all Ranked # of 93 in WDW.
Popcorn: 95% below average, 96% above average
no room for average in the calculations?
I tried to do the same comparison for Ice Cream, but…
Fantasyland Ice Cream Cart is below average at 95% yet the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor is average at 95% (same number, higher band)? Frontierland Frozen Treats is much below average at 93% yet Auntie Gravity’s Galactic Goodies is below average at 92% (lower number, higher band)… Maybe they’re not all being graphed together?
Out of curiosity, why are the Dole Whip stands and Storybook Treats considered Food Stand - American instead of Food Stand - Ice Cream? I do think Dole Whip might be a frozen dessert technically, but…
Energy Bytes is Food Stand - dim sum and drinks. I’m not sure about the dim sum part?
Another confusing category example - Karamell-Kuche is considered a Market but Zuri’s Sweet Shop is considered Quick Service - Candy?
(I don’t think I’ve ever really used the TP dining ratings before. I do use Yelp and Google reviews all the time, though, so I would love to use and contribute to TP - hopefully outside a full survey. )
I think the hardest part (and mentioned by others) is trying to explain to someone why a 94% satisfaction might be a skip. Would it be easier to put them on a school grading scale at a glance? Then you could put the details in if you drill down into it.
Suppose there are two kinds of people reading this number and label. One personality type is an “optimizer” who wants to make the best possible choice. The other is a “satisficer” who’s willing to accept anything that passes some threshold criteria.
I think the number and the label help both types of people.
The satisficer knows that 94% is good enough odds that they’ll be happy. The optimizer would see the label and find something that’s rated even higher.
I’ll be honest, this is exactly the type of stuff I come here for. I love understanding the reasoning behind things. Sometimes I’m looking at something from a different viewpoint and I really do love seeing the flip side (as a developer or a user) to get a glimpse at a bigger picture. Thanks for letting us peek behind the curtain a little.
We’re adding a series of questions to the survey for this, based on the upstream comments.
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