How to Become a Local Champion on Mosey, Step by Step

How to become a local champion on Mosey comes down to three things in the same town: rate five different places, answer three Top 3 questions and make one list of your own with a place there in it. The app counts what you do, never what you say about a place, and a card on Home ticks each step off as you go.

How to become a local champion: what are the three steps?

Local Champion is a title for one town, not for a whole country and not for a profile. You earn it by doing the same three things where the food is. The app words them as "Rate 5 places", "Answer 3 Top 3 questions" and "Make a list with a place in" your town. Each step shows Done or To do, with small counters such as "2 of 5 rated" and "1 of 3 answered", so you never have to guess what is left.

The town is whichever one the title is checked for: the town of a place you rated, the town Top 3 asked about, or the town of a place on your list. A big city, a college town and a small town all work the same way, because the steps do not change.

How do you rate five places in one town?

Open a place in the app and rate it with stars, a dish, tags and a few words if you like. What counts is five different places in the same town, so five ratings of one favorite is still one place. A corner bakery, a sit-down dinner and a food truck count equally, as long as each is a separate place that the public can see.

A few ratings never count. A rating you hid later does not, nor does a rating of a service rather than a meal, nor a place you run yourself, nor a rating from an account flagged for abuse. The simple rule is to rate places you actually ate at, honestly, and the five add up over a few weeks of ordinary eating out.

How do you answer three Top 3 questions?

Top 3 asks one question per visit, such as where you would send a friend for coffee, and visits are at least four hours apart. You name up to three places in order, with number 1 as your favorite, and that answer counts toward the title. You need three different questions answered in your town, so plan on three separate trips into the app.

A skip is not an answer. Tapping skip keeps your daily streak going, but it adds nothing toward the title. Naming even one place is enough to count. The questions are about the town your phone is in, so answer them while you are there rather than from a couch two states away.

How do you make a list in your town?

Start a Mosey list and put at least one place from the town on it. It might be a list of places to try, a list for a visiting cousin or your favorite breakfasts. Two lists do not count: the one called My Favorites, and the "My top 3s" list that Top 3 builds for you from your answers, because using it would make steps two and three the same action. Make a list of your own, give it a name and add a place.

What does not count toward the title?

Some habits look like progress but are not. A skipped Top 3 question is one. The list Top 3 writes for you is another, and so is a list called My Favorites. Rating the same place five times is one place, a hidden rating is ignored, and a place you run yourself never counts, however well it deserves it.

One thing is deliberately missing from the list of rules: the content of your ratings. A one-star rating counts exactly as much as a five-star one, and a rating with no words counts like a long review. The title only asks whether you did the activity, which is why nobody needs to praise a place to qualify.

In what order should you do the steps?

Any order works. Most people rate as they eat, which fills the first step in a few weeks, answer one Top 3 question each time the card on Home shows one, and make the list last, once they have a few favorites to put on it. If you already meet all three when you open Home, the app notices and shows the thank-you card without another tap.

What happens when you earn the title?

You see a short thank-you, "You are a Local Champion of" your town, and the title appears on your profile and beside your name on a rating of a place there. A Share my title button makes a picture card with three plain numbers and no score. The title stays once earned, and it is a mark and nothing more: no discount, no prize, no payment. Among the first people to earn it in a town, some are offered the Original mark, explained in the Original mark guide.

Where do tags, dishes and friends fit in?

Ratings feed the first step, but they do much more than that. Name the dish you ate, add tags such as Hidden Gem or Great Value, and tag who you ate with. Follow a few people and their picks show up on Home under This week with friends. A shared list lets friends add places too, which turns step three into something to do together. The reasons the title cannot be bought are in the earned, not bought guide, and the Local Champion page shows the screens. For a worked example, try a big city: the Chicago page shows how local arguments turn into Top 3 answers, and the Houston page does the same for a different table.

Mosey is free for a place to list, with no hidden fees and affordable tools, and supporting local starts with people who tell their neighbors what they ate. Browse the US food guides for more ideas.

Get the Mosey app, rate the first of your five places tonight and watch the card on Home tick over to 1 of 5.