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How we check, in plain words
Every deal on Trufa passed a check.
This page is linked from every “Confirmed” line on the site. Here’s exactly what that word means.
205 deals on the board. 182 checked in the last 30 days, 4 still waiting, 19 gone stale.
- checked in the last 30 days
- 182
- reads of the bars’ own pages
- 561
- days before a check goes stale
- 30
57 of those reads found a price had moved.
What the card says
- The window, with the sun on it.
- How long the deal has left, to the minute, on the board’s clock.
- Checked today.
- Who last checked it and when. On the venue page the line opens to say how: a call, a visit, the bar’s own page, or the bar’s Instagram.
- Every price.
- Read from the bar’s own menu or page, never guessed, and the venue page keeps the receipt.
- The Google rating.
- Google’s number, attributed to Google, and never an input to any ranking here.
Three kinds of check, never blended
The line as the card prints it, who made it, and how many of the 205 deals it last checked.
Trufa staff
An editor checked it directly. We call the bar, we visit, we read the chalkboard.
On the venue page: Confirmed by Trufa staff, today. We called the bar.
People at the bar
Someone standing in the room tapped “Confirm this deal.” One crowd tap never overrides a staff check.
On the venue page: Also confirmed by 3 people at the bar today.
The bar’s own page
Our reader matched every price and every hour against the venue’s own website, word for word, and two reads agreed. A page read never claims to be a phone call.
On the venue page: From the bar’s own page, read yesterday.
And the two quiet states
Nobody yet
Waiting for an editor. Reader tips always do; anything we can’t verify shows like this or not at all.
Past 30 days
Marked stale and dropped in every list until someone re-checks it.
The long version
Before it publishes
Every deal passes a check before it goes live, one of three ways. An editor checks it: we call the bar, we visit, we read the chalkboard. Our reader checks it against the bar’s own website: every price and every hour must appear on the venue’s own page, word for word, and two independent reads of that page must agree, or the deal waits for an editor instead. Or the bar announces it on its own Instagram: our reader brings the post in through Instagram’s official tools, and an editor reads the post itself before anything publishes. Nothing from Instagram ever goes live without a person. Tips from readers always wait for an editor; anything we can’t verify shows as “Not yet verified” or doesn’t show at all.
Who checked it, always named
Three kinds of check, always labeled and never blended: Trufa staff means an editor checked it directly. People at the bar means someone standing in the room tapped “Confirm this deal.” The bar’s own page means our reader matched every price against the venue’s own website and left a receipt on the deal. A deal read from the bar’s own Instagram says so instead (“From the venue’s Instagram”) and links the post or the profile it was read from. Prices from Instagram are published by an editor; a happy hour’s days and hours alone may publish on their own, and the deal says so. One crowd tap never overrides a staff check, and a page read never claims to be a phone call.
Going stale
Every deal shows when it was last confirmed. Past 30 days it’s marked stale and drops in every list until someone re-checks it. When reports pile up against a price, we say so on the page while we look.
Seen something wrong anyway? Tell us. A person reads every message.