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  "title": "Case Study: Google Reviews Up 320% with NFC",
  "description": "A regional restaurant group with 6 locations deployed NFC tap-to-review cards on every server's apron and at every host stand. In 90 days, weekly...",
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  "imageAlt": "Smiling waitress with a tablet talking to a restaurant customer — the tableside moment NFC review cards turned into Google reviews.",
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    "A regional restaurant group with 6 locations deployed NFC tap-to-review cards on every server's apron and at every host stand."
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    {
      "question": "Doesn't Google penalize 'review gating' or solicited reviews?",
      "answer": "Google prohibits incentivizing reviews and prohibits gating (filtering negative reviews to private channels). The customer's program does neither — every guest who taps lands on the public Google form regardless of intent. That kept the program compliant."
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    {
      "question": "What happens if a guest's phone doesn't support NFC?",
      "answer": "All cards include a printed QR code as a fallback. ~12% of taps use the QR; the rest are NFC. Mid-priced Android and all iPhone 7+ devices read NFC tags out of the box."
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    {
      "question": "Did star rating actually improve organically or just from positive selection?",
      "answer": "Both. Selection effect (asking happy guests to review) explains most of the lift. The customer's actual operating quality is unchanged — but the surfaced sentiment now better reflects average guest experience."
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    {
      "question": "What did the cards cost in total for 6 locations?",
      "answer": "$2,150 for the initial 5,000-card order + $480/quarter for replacements = $4,070 in year one. Cost per review ($0.18) reflects amortization across the 22,400 reviews projected for year one."
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    {
      "question": "What's the realistic completion rate when a guest taps the card?",
      "answer": "Industry-published benchmarks from TAPro (75-80% across 11,500+ SMBs) and TAPro's quick-service diner case study (75%) are the right anchor. The restaurant group measured 78% completion on tapped sessions. Drop-off happens mostly when guests hit a Google sign-in prompt and don't have a Google account on the device — about 10-15% of taps."
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    {
      "question": "How long until a single-location SMB sees ROI on a similar program?",
      "answer": "For a single-location coffee shop or salon doing 100-300 daily transactions, payback typically lands in 4-6 weeks. The math: 200 transactions/day × 30 days × 5% tap rate × 75% completion = ~225 reviews/month. At $0.50/card amortized over 6 months and 50 cards in service, the fully loaded cost lands near $0.20-$0.30 per review — beating any email survey or paid ad alternative."
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    "name": "Proud Tek Editorial Team",
    "title": "RFID & NFC Technical Content Team",
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      "RFID manufacturing",
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