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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.
Four years later, Tim and Nina self-published 10,000 copies of the Zagat guide. Lacking a distribution network, they visited individual bookstores, where they pitched the book while their son ...
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.
One night, after listening to a friend criticize a famous food critic, Tim and Nina Zagat realized that ordinary restaurant-goers, the civilians in the dining wars, had worthwhile opinions.
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 ...
Zagat is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949), American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction; Tim and Nina Zagat (born 1940) American lawyers, co-founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys
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 ...
Shortly after the film's release, Nina Zagat, who also spent time at Le Cordon Bleu under Brassart, and her husband responded to the film's portrayal with an article comparing Brassart and Child, whom they both knew personally and stating that Brassart was more sympathetic in real life. "Having known both women, we can safely say that it's hard ...