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Judgment & ambiguity · When to act

Your restaurant's online ratings have slipped from 4.6 to 4.3 over six weeks, but the reviews blame a mix of things — slow service, a new dish, parking. No single cause is obvious. When do you intervene versus wait for a clearer pattern?

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A three-tenths slide over six weeks is a real signal, not noise, so I don't wait for it to bottom out — by the time the cause is 'obvious' the damage is baked into my rating.

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