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Nina S. Zagat (née Safronoff) and her husband, Eugene Henry "Tim" Zagat, Jr. (born 1940, New York City) (pronounced / z ə ˈ ɡ æ t /) are the founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys. They met at Yale Law School and were both practicing attorneys when they founded Zagat Surveys.
In fact, Tim Zagat's outspoken defense of the Grocery, a small neighborhood restaurant in Brooklyn, caused a kerfuffle in the New York restaurant scene. But more on that later.
But for Zagat surveys, the most famous name in restaurant reviews, the revolution is far from over. "We created user-generated content," co-founder Tim Zagat defiantly states, "It took the rest of ...
The Zagat Survey, commonly referred to as Zagat (stylized in all caps; / z ə ˈ ɡ æ t /, zə-GAT) and established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979, is an organization which collects and correlates the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends.
On Thursday, Google bought Zagat, a reviewing empire that, for millions of users, represents the gold standard for crowd-sourced content. In a subsequent discussion with Marissa Meyer -- Google ...
On March 5, 2018, The Infatuation acquired Zagat's brand and assets from Google. They did not disclose the amount. [5] They will reportedly operate as two distinct brands, with The Infatuation retaining its editorial-first focus and Zagat will expand user surveys and develop a new tech-driven platform.
Tim and Nina Zagat were brilliant in 1979 when they launched their eponymous guidebooks. At first, they covered only New York restaurants, but soon expanded to cities around the world and to other ...
Tim Zagat and Joe Baum are credited for the "first restaurant week". Tim Zagat in a 2010 The Atlantic article said that he did not see or dream of the possibility of using American Express and Coca-Cola as sponsors for future events at the time. [3]