Google Maps adding ‘Popular Dishes feature’, here’s what it means

Looks like Google Maps team is preparing its way to compete with some online food services and aggregators like Yelp, Foursquare and others. The service that not only acts as a dominant app when it comes to directions and navigations, was recently spotted testing a new tab that let users see the popular dishes of a particular restaurant. This comes in addition to the several tabs showing the menu and photos of the particular eating joint, which were already there.
The new ‘Popular dishes’ section not only shows just one dish but multiple dishes that according to user reviews are appreciated. As reported by 9to5Google, the dishes are shown with an image in a material design themed cards, tapping on which leads to more reviews and images of the dish. It is worth adding that all this data is gathered from public reviews and images. And since these are public data, they can also ‘Suggest an edit’.