Trying out a new restaurant is a bit confusing as you don’t know what they serve the best. To make things easy, Google has rolled out an update to Google Maps on Android which will highlight the restaurant’s most popular dishes.
This feature uses a machine learning algorithm to display dish suggestions. The dish suggestions are based on the reviews and photos shared by the diners. The dishes which are more talked about and reviewed by the diners are displayed as the most popular dishes of the restaurant. In order to do so, it matches the dish with the photos uploaded by the customers. It will help businesses with good reviews to grow more, but the restaurants with few or no reviews will get no benefit from this feature.
Once you tap on to the Restaurants icon in the Explore tab, Google will give you suggestions of the restaurants nearby you. You can select the restaurants from the suggestions and the dish suggestions will appear in the Overview tab. Tap on a dish you like and you can also see the reviews given by the other diners. Along with the Overview tab, a Menu tab and a Photo tab has been provided. Menu tab displays the dishes with popularity in addition to other dishes served by the restaurant. Photos tab lets you see the photos of various dishes uploaded by the customers.
Recent additions to Google Maps:
Last year, Google rolled out a “For You tab” in Google Maps for more personalised suggestions such as to recommend places which user would like to visit, dine, shop, and more. In addition to this, Google Assistant was also brought to Google Maps this year in January. This helped drivers to get around, find local business listings, and send messages both from Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
Things Google Maps can do for you:
- Transportation direction
- Creating a map
- Measuring the distance and ETA
- Mixing maps information
- Finding your location
- Setting routes
- Getting traffic information
- Verbal instructions
- Location sharing
- Location editing
From being just a navigational app to becoming a more robust app for businesses, Google Maps has evolved a lot with such minor but useful additions. People around the world who want to help others in using Google Maps have contributed in making this feature possible by clicking the photos of the dishes from the restaurants they have visited and shared them on google maps.
Google has rolled out this feature on google maps for Android devices worldwide and for iOS users, it will be made available in coming months.