Every shop in the guide is listed free and stays listed free. A grade changes how the entry is printed — a live link, a photo, and where it sits among the 55 shops in the San Francisco index.
Grades are applied by hand within one business day, and the entry itself is still verified the same way as every other — paying moves your place in the index, it never changes what we print about you. Questions? Email us.
A grade sorts out how Cavalli Cafe reads on BeanJunkie. It doesn’t touch the rest of the shop’s footprint — the reviews, the Google listing, the posting. We run those as a service for a small number of owners, by hand, the same way we verify entries.
Review requests sent to real customers after a visit, and replies written for what comes back — including the one-star ones nobody wants to answer.
Categories, hours, photos and Q&A brought in line with the actual shop, then kept current, so the map result stops contradicting the door.
A consistent posting schedule written for your neighbourhood and your regulars — steady, not viral.
Priced per shop after we’ve looked at what you already have — we won’t print a number here we can’t stand behind for your shop. Nothing is bundled into a listing grade.
Ask what it’d takeCorrect the record on entry No. 275 — description, hours, anything we got wrong — without paying a cent. 325 entries in the guide, every one verified by hand.