by Dave Turner | Mar 17, 2012 | Journal
Bernardaud plate with Raynaud spoons; Darcy Hemley for The Wall Street Journal “Beautiful china is like an artist’s canvas, so I have nice canvases—Bernardaud china, and these Raynaud Limoges dishes designed by Thomas Keller. Stuff like this is...
by Dave Turner | Dec 2, 2011 | Journal
We continue to have more and more of you checking in with us on your smartphones and we like the imagery that our site provides. Like the overall tabletop category itself, we recognize the importance of the visual impact. Tabletop is such an sensory...
by Dave Turner | Oct 27, 2011 | Journal
New York Times reports a “price correction” is in order here….. Previously, we’d reported that Google paid a reported $125 million for Zagat. Now, the Times is saying it was more like $151 million. Oh….what’s a few million $ among...
by Dave Turner | Sep 11, 2011 | Journal
After several other much lower numbers were rumored to be the acquisition price, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google purchased Zagat for “around” $125 million. One site had this figure to be the same valuation Zagat had a number of years ago....
by Dave Turner | Sep 8, 2011 | Journal
Congratulations to Tim and Nia Zagat on the sale of their company to Google. After 32 years of ratings magic, expect even bigger things with the power of Google now backing Zagat. Maybe we can get them to do a tabletop ratings book? Again, congratulations and best of...