When the online review platform Yelp added a "Black-owned" tag in 2020, it boosted the visibility of Black-owned restaurants in Detroit. It also caused their ratings to drop, according to our ...

Yelp reviews mentioning "Black-owned" that coincided with the implementation of the tag were associated with a reduction in overall ratings.

In Detroit, Black-owned restaurants saw a slight decrease in their star ratings. Those businesses went from 3.91 average stars to 3.88 after the introduction of the tag.

When the online review platform Yelp added a “Black-owned” tag in 2020, it boosted the visibility of Black-owned restaurants in Detroit. It also caused their ratings to drop, according to our ...

How we did our work To examine the local impacts of Yelp’s Black-owned tag, we collected over 250,000 Yelp reviews of Black- and non-Black-owned restaurants in Detroit and Los Angeles.