The Top 1,000 Program

Where you stand

Calibration Score

Honest curves earn more weight. Mostly 6s, 7s and 8s, occasional 9s, a rare 10 — that's a rater the community can trust. Straight tens or straight ones still count, just for less.

Appreciation

A ✦ on a review means "I trust this rating" — worth 2 XP to the reviewer. Tapping "I tried this because of you" after you order it is worth 5 XP, and it's the only number that measures real influence.

Local Legends

The most appreciated food voice in each city. Restaurants there will know the name.

No city has enough appreciations yet — the first legends are still being decided.

The ladder

• Top 1,000top 1,000

  Founding membership in the panel that sets the scores.

  • ✦Permanent Top 1,000 badge showing your founding year
  • ✦Early access to every new feature before public release
  • ✦A direct feedback channel to the product team
  • ✦Your ratings carry extra weight in the community average
  • ✦The Top 1,000 feed — see what the panel is eating
  • ✦An invitation to The MenuVybe Table every year
  • ✦Partner-restaurant perks: show the badge, get the extra
• Top 500top 500

  Trusted enough to help hold the data straight.

  • ✦Monthly personal digest — stats, rank movement, most impactful reviews
  • ✦The physical Top 500 card, mailed to you
  • ✦Flag suspect reviews straight into the moderation queue
• City Ambassadortop 100

  The official MenuVybe voice in your city.

  • ✦City Ambassador designation on your profile
  • ✦Free Premium restaurant dashboard if you run a place
  • ✦Quarterly video call with the founding team
  • ✦Your name in the app credits
  • ✦Host local MenuVybe dinners and shape your city's official guide
• Founding Tentop 10

  The ten diners who built the data foundation.

  • ✦Named advisor role with real input on product direction
  • ✦Founding-member recognition on the MenuVybe about page, permanently
  • ✦A seat in the founders' conversation about long-term upside

Things you can hold

• The MenuVybe TableAnnual — Top 1,000

  One night a year, in a different city each time, the Top 1,000 sit down together. You cover travel. We cover an extraordinary meal at a partner restaurant, built from the highest-rated dishes in the database. Year one: Nashville.

• Food passportAt Level 4 — Taste Maker

  A stamped booklet mailed to you at Taste Maker. Pages for every cuisine tried, every state eaten in, every county logged. Something you hold, not something you screenshot.

• Printed food yearEvery January — opt in

  Every January we mail a one-page printed summary of your food year: most-visited restaurant, highest-rated dish, cities eaten in, cuisine breakdown, final rank. Refrigerator-worthy.

• Partner-restaurant perksOngoing — Top 1,000

  Show your Top 1,000 badge at a partner restaurant and get the extra — a free side, a dessert, first crack at a special. Costs us nothing, means everything at the table.

• Birthday dishOnce a year — everyone

  On your birthday we surface your highest-rated dish of the year and suggest somewhere to celebrate, paired with a partner offer if there's one in your city.

• Founding-year designationPermanent — first-year Top 1,000

  Being member 847 of the first Top 1,000 is a permanent fact. Your founding year sits on your profile forever, whatever happens to your rank later.

City Ambassadors

Top 100 diners can take the ambassador role in their city. Unpaid, but it comes with a free Premium dashboard, weighted reviews and the standing of being the trusted food voice where you live.

• Organise local MenuVybe dinners — everyone logs what they eat
• Be the local point of contact for restaurant outreach
• Curate your city's official MenuVybe guide
• Keep local data honest — bad addresses, duplicates, suspect reviews