Tag Who You Ate With and Rate a Meal Together

When you rate a meal in Mosey, you can tag who you ate with. Pick people you follow, and each of them can add their own rating of the same meal. It is a way to share a restaurant review with a friend without writing one rating for two people.

What does it mean to tag who you ate with?

It means telling the app, as you rate a place, who was at the table. The rating screen has a step titled "Who were you with?" and a line beneath it: "Tag people you follow. They can add their own rating of the same meal." You choose the friends, post your rating, and each of them gets a prompt to add theirs.

The important word is "their own". A tag does not create a shared or group rating, and it does not speak for anyone. Your stars are yours, and your friend's stars are theirs. Two people can eat the same dish and disagree, and the app keeps both opinions, each under its own name. That honesty is what makes the tag worth using.

How do you tag friends in a rating?

Start a rating as usual: choose the place, add the dishes, give stars. Along the way, open the people step and search the people you follow by name or username. Tap each person to add them, and a small label shows how many you have tagged. There is a cap on how many people one rating can carry, and the app tells you when you reach it.

If nobody appears in the search, the reason is simple: you can only tag people you follow. The screen says "Follow people to tag them here." Follow your friends first, then come back. Tagging is optional, so a rating without it is complete, and you can edit the people before you post. Remove a name with the small remove button next to it.

What does your friend see?

They see a card that says you tagged them at the place, with how many stars you gave and the dishes you had, under a heading that reads "What they had". That helps them remember the meal. The card then offers four choices: post it as their own rating, edit it first, say "I was just there", or dismiss it.

"Post as my rating" copies the dishes across so they only adjust the stars. "Edit first" opens the form so they can change anything before posting. "I was just there" records that they were at the place without giving a score, and shows on their profile without one. Dismiss clears the card. Nobody has to respond, and nobody is nagged for not responding.

How does a tag help you share a restaurant review with a friend?

It turns a one-sided review into a conversation. Instead of sending a friend a message that says you loved the dumplings, you tag them, and their own view appears next to yours on the place's page. People reading later get two perspectives from people who sat at the same table. That tells them more than one voice can, and it often catches the dish that split opinion.

It also helps friends who are not good at writing reviews. Tapping "Post as my rating" takes seconds, so people who would never write from scratch end up adding a rating. If you are the one who tagged, you can quietly encourage a shy friend by tagging them, then letting the card do the rest.

Is there a limit on tagging, and can you remove a tag?

A few rules protect everyone. If your friend rated that place in the last 30 days, the card tells them they can update that rating instead, because ratings are one per visit. Anyone who is tagged can take their name off. The remove screen says "Your name comes off this rating. Nobody is told." So tagging is never a way to put words in somebody's mouth.

You can only tag people you follow, which keeps strangers out. If you have not followed your tablemates yet, do it before the meal. A tag also shows on the other person's profile as a line saying they were there with you, which is a good reason to tag only when you were actually together.

Using tags at a table of friends

Plan for it. Before a group dinner, make sure everyone follows each other, or at least follows you. During the meal, one person rates and tags the rest while the dishes are still on the table. Afterward, everyone adds their own view. For a regular dinner club, this creates a shared history of the places you have been, each with several opinions.

Pair it with a list. A shared list holds where you plan to go next, and tagged ratings record how it went. The guide to building a food list with friends covers the list side, and the guide to rating as you eat covers the form.

Why tagging helps the places you visit

A place gets more from three honest ratings of one meal than from one glowing line, because the next customer sees which dish everyone liked. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, so the credit your table gives stays with the place. Supporting local can be as small as a tag and a few stars.

Learn more on the ratings page, or browse the US food guides for the next plan.

Tag your next dinner companions in the Mosey app and let each of them add the rating they would give.