❓ How CRATINGS Works

CRATINGS helps a group decide where to eat by measuring how strongly participants are craving each restaurant.

Instead of choosing only one restaurant, each participant can rate every restaurant from 1 to 5.

A restaurant earns one to five Craving Points from each participant who rates it.

The restaurant with the greatest total Craving Points creates the greatest total group craving.

The Recommendation Score shows how much of the maximum possible group craving a restaurant earned.

Suppose three participants responded. The maximum possible score for a restaurant is:

If a restaurant earns 12 points:

An 80% Recommendation Score means the restaurant earned 80% of the maximum possible group craving.

A restaurant receives the Full Group Consensus label when every participant who submitted a response rated that restaurant.

The Full Group Consensus restaurant is not automatically the winner.

CRATINGS may recommend one restaurant because it earned the most total Craving Points while also highlighting another restaurant because every participant expressed interest in it.

Restaurants are ranked primarily by total Craving Points.

Because every restaurant in a session uses the same maximum possible points, ranking by Craving Points is equivalent to ranking by Recommendation Score.

If restaurants have equal Craving Points, average rating and participant interest help organize the tied results. A true top-score tie is still presented as a tie.