Tripadvisor
Complaint signal is 13.0%.
Praise signal is 81.5%.
Baseline signal is 14.2%.
Delta vs baseline is -1.1 points.
Topic
What reviews say about food in Washington, United States
Food appears in 12.5% of analyzed complaint excerpts in this market.
Google Maps is above the baseline by 2.0 percentage points.
- Confidence
- 13,206
- Reviews analyzed
- Last update
- September 16, 2026
- 2 platforms in the sample
At a glance
Share of complaint snippets where this topic appears by platform.
This metric tracks topic presence in complaint snippets, not positive versus negative sentiment split.
Balance is praise minus complaint for this topic on the same platform.
Google Maps
Signal balance: +49.6pp
Complaint signal
12.0%
Praise signal
61.6%
Tripadvisor
Signal balance: +68.4pp
Complaint signal
13.0%
Praise signal
81.5%
How this market compares
Compare this country-level view with global cross-category patterns.
Largest gap:
Google Maps is above baseline by 2.0 points.
Google Maps
Global baseline
10.0%
Tripadvisor
Global baseline
14.2%
Platform-by-platform signal
Compare complaint and praise mentions by source, including the available baseline.
Google Maps
Complaint signal is 12.0%.
Praise signal is 61.6%.
Baseline signal is 10.0%.
Delta vs baseline is 2.0 points.
Largest difference from baseline
This is the largest measured difference between the current market and its available baseline.
Google Maps
2.0pp aboveCurrent signal is above baseline by 2.0 points (current 12.0%, baseline 10.0%).
Tripadvisor
1.1pp belowCurrent signal is below baseline by 1.1 points (current 13.0%, baseline 14.2%).
What reviewers keep mentioning
These themes appear most often in the analyzed excerpts for this market.
Google Maps
Top complaints
Terrible food and service.
Google Maps
Top praises
Great food.
Google Maps
Top praises
Food was delicious.
Google Maps
Top praises
Food was excellent.
Tripadvisor
Top complaints
Bland food.
Tripadvisor
Top complaints
Disappointing food
Tripadvisor
Top praises
Great food
Tripadvisor
Top praises
Great food!
Tripadvisor
Top praises
Great food and service
Representative review quotes
These excerpts show the review language behind the measured signal.
Google Maps
Complaint quote
Food was disgusting very salty and not appetizing looking at all.
Review rating: 1.0
Google Maps
Praise quote
Food was delicious (shepherds pie and chicken pot pie) and they run good happy hour deals.
Review rating: 5.0
Tripadvisor
Complaint quote
The food was particularly disappointing.
Review rating: 1.0
Tripadvisor
Praise quote
Good food terrible service terrible options don’t cater to people with special dietary needs
Review rating: 4.0
What the signal means
Coverage
145 insight listings mention Food in this scope.
Signal strength
Complaint signal is 12.5% across available platforms.
Praise signal is 71.6% across available platforms.
Next step
Pick one issue worth checking, then use recent reviews to see whether the pattern is still present.
This country view combines every indexed category with evidence for this topic in United States. Use it as a broad baseline, then open a category view before applying the pattern to a particular kind of business. Differences in complaint rate, praise rate, source mix, and excerpts show where a narrower check may be more useful.
Use the Food signal to decide where to look, then check it against recent feedback from your own local businesses.
Evidence behind this topic
- Food groups review language such as food, taste, flavor, menu, dish, and meal, so the signal stays tied to concrete guest wording rather than a generic score.
- Washington, United States uses 13206 analyzed reviews across 2 platforms, 1 locality records, and 145 supporting insight listings for Food.
- Tripadvisor has the strongest complaint signal for Food at 13.0%, compared with a measured average of 12.5% across platforms.
- Tripadvisor has the strongest praise signal for Food at 81.5%, compared with a measured average of 71.6% across platforms.
How reliable is this signal?
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Reviews analyzed
13,206
Platforms covered
2
Last update
August 09, 2026
Reports behind this finding
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