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Where the information comes from, why there are no reviews, and how to tell us something."/> <link rel="canonical" href="https://kist.scot/about"/><!----><title>About â Kist Directory</title> 32 <link href="./_app/immutable/assets/0.BMrg2atj.css" rel="stylesheet"> 33 <link href="./_app/immutable/assets/3.Bf5SMWyB.css" rel="stylesheet"> 34 </head> 35 <body data-sveltekit-preload-data="hover"> 36 <div style="display: contents"><!--[--><!--[0--><!--[--><a href="#main-content" class="skip-link svelte-12qhfyh">Skip to content</a> <!--[0--><header class="svelte-12qhfyh"><a href="/" class="wordmark svelte-12qhfyh">Kist</a> <span class="region-label svelte-12qhfyh">Forth Valley</span> <nav class="svelte-12qhfyh"><a href="/directory">Browse</a> <a href="/about">About</a></nav></header><!--]--> <main id="main-content" class="svelte-12qhfyh"><!--[--><article class="svelte-cwls5q"><!----><h1>Know when it's ready</h1> 37<p class="lead">The bread's out at eight. The fish van's in Buchlyvie Thursday. The first strawberries are on the gate.</p> 38<p>Kist tells you â free, by email, from the businesses you choose.</p> 39<p><strong><a href="/directory">Browse the directory â</a></strong></p> 40<h2>Follow the ones you love</h2> 41<p>Find a place you rate. Tap follow. That's it.</p> 42<p>When they've something worth knowing â the next batch, the market day, the pies back on after summer â you'll hear. One tap to stop, any time.</p> 43<p class="micro">No pushy sales. No spam. Businesses see how many people are waiting â never who.</p> 44<p>And it matters more than it looks: a small food business runs on folk remembering to turn up. Following is how you remember.</p> 45<h2>People round here already do this</h2> 46<p>Gargunnock bought its shop back. Drymen owns its pub. Balfron planted an orchard.</p> 47<p>All answers to one question: how do you keep the places that feed us open?</p> 48<p>Kist is one more â a list, kept right, so nobody drives to a farm shop that shut an hour ago.</p> 49<h2>Honest by design</h2> 50<p>Every fact says where it came from and when we last checked. <em>"Checked 3 days ago." "Checked 74 days ago â worth ringing first."</em> If we're not sure, we say so.</p> 51<p>No reviews, no stars, no scores â you're the judge of good food. No accounts. Every list on this site runs A to Z. Always. No one can pay to move up it. Every business gets a complete listing, free, always.</p> 52<h2>You know your patch</h2> 53<p>Hours changed? Number dead? Someone new opened? Tell us â twenty seconds, no account, we never ask who you are. We'll check it next time we're passing.</p> 54<p><strong><a href="/tell-us">Something to tell us? â</a></strong></p> 55<p>Run one of these places? 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