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rglondonI've been wondering for a little while now about how best to organise the food categories on RGL. At the moment, we have categories for various continents, e.g. African Food, Asian Food, European Food, and we also have more specific subcategories, e.g. Nigerian Food, Sichuan Food, Spanish Food.
At the moment, there isn't much consistency in whether an individual restaurant serving food from a particular country also goes into the category for its continent. For example, the Asian Food page explicitly states that restaurants should only go in the overarching category if they do "pan-Asian" food, and this does seem to have been stuck to. But the African Food category contains several individual restaurants that specialise in food from a given country.
Bearing in mind that the purpose of these categories is to make it easier for people to find things (and that it's possible to show a map of "everything in category X" but not "everything in category X and its subcategories"), what do you think? Should a restaurant specialising in Italian food come up under "European Food", and a restaurant specialising in Filipino food come up under "Asian Food"? Is it useful to be able to search for "a restaurant serving food from any African cuisine"?
I would love to hear your comments on this, since it's perplexing me. But if you're in a hurry, I also made a poll:
Assuming that individual restaurants are already in the category for their country, should they also go in the category for their continent?
