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11%

11% -- share of restaurants with average rating below 3 5 for restaurants (2024)

Name: Share Of Restaurants With Average Rating Below 3 5 Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-03

2024 · n=100,000 · RightResponse AI

11% of restaurants have an average rating falling under a 3.5 threshold.

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11%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2024

Entity

restaurants

Sample Size

100,000

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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RightResponse AI Primary Tier A

https://www.rightresponseai.com/blog/100000-restaurant-reviews ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2024 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

Highlights - 64% of diners have a review cut-off of 3.5 (i.e., they won’t consider a restaurant if it has a review below 3.5), but only 2.7% of restaurants have average ratings below 3.5. - Reviews are getting longer across all star ratings, rising on average from 30 words in early 2021 to roughly 4…

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Methodology

AI sentiment analysis of over 100,000 restaurant reviews

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Industrymarketing

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restaurants: 11% share of restaurants with average rating below 3 5. Source: RightResponse AI (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/restaurants-below-3-5-rating

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