As a food lover, Snyder found similarities between her startup and the Michelin Guide.

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What the Michelin Guide is to restaurants, The Peugeot Golf Guide is to the golf courses of Europe.

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I'd been taught that great food only came from France, that the Michelin Guide was the only thing that mattered.

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It is as if a restaurant had to treat every diner who comes through the door like a potential reviewer for the Michelin guide.

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One simple way to improve the situation may be to take our lead from the Michelin guide and oblige the agencies to ration their very best ratings.

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The Michelin Guide uses its star ranking system to rate restaurants.

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According to the Daily Meal, the rankings were carefully curated over the course of a seven-month-long nomination process in which a team consulted with the Michelin Guide and Daily Meal editors to compile a preliminary list of 1, 450 restaurants.

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His co-author, Jean-Francois Mesplede, was longtime director of the vaunted Michelin Guide to France, and the introduction is by one of the most revered living chefs, 3-star Paul Bocuse.

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But it should be, according to the brand new 2013 Michelin Guide for Hong Kong and Macau.

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Not long after Coi's debut, in 2007, Michelin anointed San Francisco the second guide-worthy city in America.

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