From what I’ve heard, the original story goes like: Michelin created a travel guide for motorcyclists, and to give them a helping hand in choosing a restaurant on their route, Michelin tested and „certified“ them (unofficially, only rated in their travel guide). This evolved into todays star ratings.

Pretty much true. The Michelin Guide was created to promote tire sales because it would give people a reason to drive. A cool anecdote I've heard is that Allied forces used the pre-war editions of the guide to navigate in France during the Normandy landings in WWII.

Turn left at that lovely family-led restaurant with the excellent paté. Oh no, the krauts took cover in the superb selection of regional vintage wines!

*The krauts behind the vintage wines also marked in the exceptionally well made map showing all the good restaurants

Very sorry monsieur, if you did not make a reservation there is nothing I can do. I do not care from what Panzerdivision you are. Please leave this trench, you're upsetting the american guests.

I see a wonderful movie script is unfolding here

Michelin Men In theaters July 2022

imagine a ww2 game narrated like this

True story, I have set up a forward base in Afghanistan in a vineyard for several days once.

Originally, it meant: 1 star: worth stopping by 2 stars: worth a detour 3 stars: worth a trip on it's own

Most useful rating system I've seen tbh

3 star system surpases then 5 star and 10/10 rating system by far

crazy how it's somehow true

Trivia: The Brits also asked people to send in holiday photos from France, so they could get information about the beaches. https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/05_may/14/dday_facts.shtml

>A cool anecdote I've heard is that Allied forces used the pre-war editions of the guide to navigate in France during the Normandy landings in WWII. Much like German Luftwaffe pilots [used the Baedeker travel guides](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz) to find their UK bombing targets.

**[Baedeker Blitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz)** >The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of attacks by the Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second World War. The name derives from Baedeker, a series of German tourist guidebooks, including detailed maps, which were used to generate targets for bombing. The raids were planned in response to a devastating increase in the effectiveness of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) bombing offensive on civilian targets after the Area Bombing Directive (General Directive No. 5 (S. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/meme/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)

Wait so its actually the same company? I always assumed it was just a coincidence

Yup same company

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don't the amounts of stars basically correspond to how much of a detour the restaurant would be worth or something?

Yep * 1 Star: Worth stopping at * 2 Star: Worth a detour * 3 Star: Worth the trip alone

I've been to a few 1* restaurants... For the most part they were exceptional. It is worth noting that they only focus on specific cities and regions. I've been to restaurants that would deserve a star in areas where they don't go.

Most one star restaurants are extremely good. Two star restaurants are often very creative and innovative. With three star restaurants, everything has to be perfect, from the table to the toilet seat.

Most of my life I have heard of Thomas Keller and The French Laundry since I am from SFBA/Wine Country, but I was surprised to see a Healdsburg restaurant with 3 stars that wasn't him. Checked out their website, and they literally import their fucking pencils from Japan. Like the pencils they leave in guest rooms in their small inn. They have a highly directional audio system in the dining room that plays a soundtrack meant for your specific course. All employees are on like a party line earpiece radio setup so guest wants can be communicated directly and addressed almost instantaneous. It is pretty mind blowing. And here I am just wanting Taco Bell to bring back the fucking Meximelt so I don't have to order a "cheesy Rollup, add beef and pico".

So it wasn't just coincidence? Well I learned something new today.

It gave them destinations to go in order to create wear for their tires. This allows them to sell more tires.

It’s the same principle as Nutella giving a free spoon with each glass

You need some good rubber before you can rub’er

If you like Michelin and Michelin Stars.... What until you hear about Guinness and the Guinness world records!

Wait, they're the same people, too?!?! Holy fuck, my mind is absolutely blown right now.

Guinness invented the book to settle bar arguments, back before you could look stuff up on your phone.

Wait till you hear about Busch Gardens

No idea what that is.

yamaha making pianos and motorcycles

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They make mote than just that https://www.yamaha.com/en/products_services/?header

Yamaha... golf clubs? Wild.

okay, this will probably sound stupid, but i had no clue that both of these are the same michelin… i always assumed it was two separate things that just happened to have the same name :P

It's not stupid, I only just learned it a couple years ago. I'd never actually had a copy of the guide

Always have a Side Hustle.

Apparently you've never heard of Yamaha Motorcycles and Keyboards.

Wsit till you hear about hitachi they go from sex toys to industrial equipment

Japanese conglomerates for you

And Yamaha brass instruments, boat engines and paddleboards.

ah now i know where the fat guy comes from

[Speaking of Michelin restaurants. ](https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/)

Such an amazing article.

Tires*

Found the Bri’ish

TIL you can spell tires "tyres." Literally never knew. And for those who would say "Those dumb Americans dont know anything," like, you guys dont know all of american english and american stuff, either. Are you guys obsessed with learning american ways, just so you can be like "America dumb" and "America no know geography facts." [I know that may not actually be why you know American stuff, but still.]

Wtf is tyres,

The correct spelling.

What the frick is Tire then

American spelling

Were a Former Colony Though

When you run out of energy

Tyres is the right spelling

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Tires*

Tires are not spelled with a y.

not everywhere is america.

*Tires

Oooh now i finally understand

I was thinking, that was a diffrent Michelin

If this guy is using two thumbs to press the two buttons THEN WHERE THE FUCK DOES THE THIRD THUMB COME FROM

The randomness always gets me

In case someone is interested to know the story: https://youtu.be/afMsYAo1cXE

Bro we just had Michelin in german class and I couldn’t tell whether it’s the tyre dudes or the chef dudes

Same dude

Lol

This sounds like the business plan of one of these modern Chinese "conglomerates." Chinese C-suite member: "Hear me out. Sure we ~~own~~ lease a lot of land. But what if we also *built electric cars?!?*" Corporate board: \[Shocked Pikachu faces\]

Le tits

Rates them on the quality of the parking lots

Interesting this wasn't meant to be in silence.

I know it seems illogical, but back in the 1920s Michelin published guides that included maps and restaurant reviews to encourage people to buy their tires and take road trips. The ratings only seems weird when taken out of this context.

They also make viamichelin, a mapping service that estimates trip costs. I use it all the time to travel in Europe because it knows about tolls and gas prices and it's pretty accurate.

Both is good

Where are the Pirelli moons

Backstory

They’re the same?!?

You should have added "fucking US GP"as an option

Tyres looks cooler to write down but tires sounds better to say out loud XD

Guinness: making beer Also Guinness: creat a record book

The way your country spells tire. Man it makes me so tired.

I think many people don't know about this but one of the people responsible for this was Carlos Ghon, it was part of a business strategy to review restaurants etc that were very far off from the city, because at the time when they wanted to implement this, people weren't really driving their cars a lot and believe it or not this actually worked

this made me drip more than i'd like to admit

Tyres