The Centurion Awards verify local businesses against published criteria: years of real operation and a genuine customer track record, backed by a community that’s glad they exist.
Free to nominate·Free to be evaluated
Hand a favorite spot the recognition it already earned. Nominating is free, takes about a minute, and it can only ever help the business. Or browse the winners already named in your town.
Heard from us, or from a customer who nominated you? See where your business stands. The check is free and private.
Just your business name · Evaluated against the published criteria
Every winner met the same standard: years in operation and a customer track record their neighbors vouch for. Find yours, or discover a new favorite.
All categories · Arizona
View the market →All categories · Arizona
View the market →Rolling out across 2026 and 2027
More cities comingThere’s nothing to enter and no panel to win over. Our evaluation engine reads years of public evidence on every business in a market. The same five criteria, weighted the same way, for everyone. People audit the data, and no one picks favorites.
We don’t wait for entries. Every business in scope is evaluated. We read years of public signals across listings, reviews, local press, and the open web. If you’ve been doing the work, you’re already in the running.
Five published criteria: longevity, sustained presence, customer track record, community sentiment, local recognition. Evidence that takes years to build, and can’t be bought, botted, or campaigned for.
Your verdict stays private either way. Fall short and nothing publishes: you won’t turn up on a ranking or a runner-up list, and we never publish a negative verdict.
A short digital confirmation and a $199 processing fee put your dated winner page on the record, typically within a business day. The fee covers the publishing work; it can never sway a verdict. Anyone can verify the page. It renews each year, and we revoke it if the evidence ever stops holding up.
The Better Business Bureau formally warns business owners about vanity-award schemes. Here’s how the usual suspects compare.
| Vote-drive contests | Pay-to-play badges | The Centurion Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who wins | Whoever mobilizes the biggest mailing list | Whoever pays the fee | ✓ Whoever clears the published criteria |
| Fee to be considered | None | Fees to enter, more for an “edge” | ✓ None. We never charge a business we don’t list |
| Cost of selection | Weeks of vote-chasing | $300–$3,000+ | ✓ Selection can’t be bought at any price |
| Proof behind it | Unaudited vote counts | None | ✓ Published criteria and a public, dated award page |
One award per category in each city, each year. No tiers, and no way to pay for placement or selection. Winners who choose to publish pay a $199 processing fee, which covers the review, the winner page, the certificate, and the hosting behind them; no business ever pays unless it’s listed. See the full owner comparison. Source: BBB Business Tip, “How to spot and avoid vanity awards” (2022).
Customers check the evidence before they choose. The difference is whether the award behind the badge survives a second look. A Centurion Award is built to survive one. That’s the whole point.
of consumers will only use a local business rated four stars or better (BrightLocal, 2026)
higher five-year sales growth for quality-award winners than for matched peer firms (Hendricks & Singhal)
more revenue for an independent restaurant with each added star of Yelp rating (Luca, Harvard Business School)
Qualify, and it all arrives ready to run. You get a dated winner page anyone can look up, a badge and social kit sized for feed and story, and a framed plaque for the wall your customers actually look at. And the published criteria sit behind all of it, for anyone who asks “is this real?”
Sources: BrightLocal, “Local Consumer Review Survey” (2026); Hendricks & Singhal, “Evidence from Quality Award Winners” (2000), about 600 publicly traded award winners against matched peers; Michael Luca, “Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com” (Harvard Business School, 2011).
Nominating takes a minute or two, and neither you nor the business pays anything to be considered. It’s the easiest way to hand a beloved local spot the recognition it already earned.
We’ll evaluate the business against the criteria. If it qualifies, we take the result straight to the owner. If it doesn’t, the evaluation stays private.
Live categories are being awarded now in Flagstaff and Tucson. More categories launch with each new city.
“A town’s best businesses deserve a signal decided by evidence alone.” — Nick Jones & Brendan Tobin, Founders