Some restaurants listed on online food ordering sites GrubHub and Seamless under New York City addresses don’t actually exist, according to an investigation by NBC 4 New York’s I-Team. The I-Team examined location data for 100 of NYC’s most popular restaurants on the sites and discovered “slightly more than 10 percent of the kitchens were ghosts, meaning they had names or addresses that failed to match any listing on the city’s database of restaurant inspection grades.” GrubHub is now reviewing the accuracy of its restaurant listings in response to the I-Team’s investigation and similar findings from the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs, the NBC 4 New York reports.
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