Hi Luca - thanks for your input and welcome to the forum.
outcome of your review as the important part. As a reader of reviews, I'm more interested in the process.
I personally agree that process should be more important in reviews, but actually would respectfully submit that you are probably unlike most readers, who definitely do want to see the results - in fact for some readers, that is the only thing they want to see [rightly or wrongly]! With respect to wanting to know more about the reviewers, respect the sentiment, but there is one practical hitch - most of our reviewers are either World Barista Judge or Australian Barista Finalist level, or above. However, many of these would be reluctant to have their name published. You would appreciate that most of these people now make their living as consultants to the industry. There are a number of scenarios where this could create a problem for them personally, for example if one of them left out a cafe for consideration in a Top 5 for a particular city, when a roaster strongly believed that cafe should be included. i would like to say that the industry is more enlightened than this, but in practice a situation like this could be a problem for that person's livelihood. This is just one potential example, but I'm sure you can see how this could put them in an extremely difficult position. What I can assure you of is that we take this process extremely seriously, unlike many newspapers, where the attitude seems to be [to a junior journalist] 'John, do you like coffee - go and try some cafes and do an article on sydney's top five for me'... or similar! -A
