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Eat The City Pty Ltd

Restaurant discovery platform replacing five-star ratings.

Founded Jul 2026Pre-funding Food

The founders

Tai NguyenTN
Ex-devFU · University of Newcastle, Australia

The company

What they're building

Eat The City is an Australian restaurant discovery platform that ditches the blunt five-star rating in favour of detailed qualitative metrics — food quality, service speed and atmosphere. For restaurants, the same feedback becomes a business intelligence layer, turning customer sentiment into analytics on performance, competitive positioning and operations.

Why now

Diners have grown sceptical of gamed and inconsistent star ratings, and restaurants are hungry for signal beyond an average score. A platform built on structured, qualitative feedback speaks to both frustrations at once.

The backstory

The company says it was born from a shared frustration with unreliable reviews and the restrictive nature of traditional five-star systems.

Why this team

The founding team is building for a problem they say they felt personally, pairing a consumer discovery product with a data tool for restaurants under one roof.

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